Posted on 01/16/2016 7:14:37 AM PST by pinochet
Mine weren't all that enthusiastic about the Union either. Historical records show that he went all the way to Nevada to enlist in the Union Cavalry and spent most of the war escorting supply trains on that relatively quiet part of the front. Battle action would be limited to the type of stuff which you saw in the epic movie The Good, the Bad and the Ugly about the far western theater.
Missouri
Talk about the American Dream. Anybody born there, of legal residents (even if the legal residents are citizens only a foreign land) are citizens-at-birth of the United States. See 8 USC 1402 and 8 USC 1406.
Maybe it's Guam.
The following persons, and their children born after April 11, 1899, are declared to be citizens of the United States ...All persons born in the island of Guam who resided in Guam on April 11, 1899, including those temporarily absent from the island on that date, who after that date continued to reside in Guam or other territory over which the United States exercises sovereignty, and who have taken no affirmative steps to preserve or acquire foreign nationality.
Citizen at birth, no naturalization process. Sweet!
Here in north Jersey I think we got the last conservatives fleeing NYC during the Dinkins administration.
Nowhere in America is more “American” than Sussex County NJ.
It’s Kikes, not kites! LOL. Good typo, and even if you thought the right word was “kite,” that’s okay too. Archie Bunker was a great character.
“cowboys, who are viewed by foreigners as “stereotypical American tough guys”
I must meet different foreigners. “Cowboy” is a euphemism for “reckless and crude”. It’s a leftists view of people who don’t follow the herd.
Many Americans view “cowboy” as a good thing, i.e. independent and tough, morally certain. That meaning I think jives well with Texans and some New Englanders (fisherman) Mid-western farmers, Alaskans. I think in general anyone in flyover country.
I agree with you, Hawaii seems foreign.
Any state above the Mason-Dixon line is suspect Communist. And this is more evident the further east and north that you go.
NW SC, SW NC, E TN. Actually a State of Mind.
I like Wyoming, lots of conservatives.
Having lived here all my life the only thing I can say for sure is that it *ain’t* Massachusetts.
Actually,the two states that come first to my mind are Kansas and Nebraska.
“It is precisely because of my conservative viewpoint that I came out of NYC.”
I too was born and raised on that island, and also “came out of NYC”. While, on a purely numerical basis there are indeed “many” conservatives with roots in NYC, the poster is certainly correct that, proportionally speaking, NYC residents are OVERWHELMINGLY leftist in every way. It is purely due to the high population density that one can rightfully claim that “many conservatives come from NYC”.
I think it's more along the lines of *Japanese*.
Interestingly, I've heard that Columbus, Ohio and Phoenix, Arizona are considered the most "representative" metropolitan areas in terms of demographics ... and that restaurant chains and marketing groups for consumer products will often use these two cities to test new products before rolling them out nationally.
“And Trump is just as conservative as any of the other non-establishment candidates.”
Agree completely! The apple is indeed rotting as we speak. And I am getting tired of everyone questioning Trumps conservative heritage. 20 Years ago that line of critique would have made perfect sense. In today’s upside down world it makes no sense whatsoever. We re-elect a communist radical muslim president with a stealth personal history, the “Republicans” have emerged as collaborators with our enemy....who cares who Trump associated with while pursuing his business interests? All that matters now is that he is the arch enemy of whatever evil organism is pulling the strings right now!
That is a really hard question to answer.
I lived in Europe for 4 years, and I can say that I never met a European who expressed an opinion that some geographic factor/culture/etc. is “stereotypically” American.
If anything, the only stereotypes that came up are that Americans are athletic and American women are beautiful. And those topics arose because French high school students said that they had held the stereotype of athletic Americans until they met me and saw that it isn’t true. (I attended a French high school for my senior year.) Yeah, I am no athlete. The other stereotype they felt to be generally true.
People would ask me about American culture, and I always found that I had to qualify the answer. Because when you start to say that “Americans do...” or “Americans don’t...” you suddenly realize that the only Americans you know are those from your school (or work, if you are out of school), family, and church, and you really have no idea about the rest of the country.
Texas is a world unto itself, larger than any European country (other than Russia), but I find it offensive to label Texas (especially Texas) as somehow “more American” than other states. This is why calling the Dallas Cowboys “America’s Team” is just awful.
Texas geographically has no seriously mountainous areas, and its gulf coast has no serious waves...and the state is uniformly hot (humid in the East, and dry in the West), without ever (really) snowing or freezing; it’s really not my ideal of a place to be.
The people are Southerners or Hispanic...and that doesn’t represent the whole of America at all.
Mid-Westerners will say there (”heart of America”) Easterners will say there (the original states, after all), and I do have soft spot in my heart for Virginia and North Carolina. California will say there (Hollywood! Trends!) and New England will say there (Boston Teaparty, Minutemen)
I would never deign to be so arrogant to call any one state “more American” than another. Hawaii does, I think, seem to be less American than others....due to its leftist politics, and international/Asian mix of peoples, geographic location (in the middle of the Pacific), not to mention its recent statehood.
If a cataclysmic war or new dark ages were to happen—Hawaii would be the first leave the union—since it’s not close to us already.
New York City was the British stronghold during the US Revolution—and that may be one reason why so many of us don’t really see NYC as super-American (besides it radical leftist politics). So many in NYC are multiculturalist uber liberal whites, or recent immigrants not assimilated....
You mean the other 8 states. Obama said he had visited 57 states and still had one more to go.
We here in TN say there are actually three states: East (conservative), central (mixed), and west (generally libs). We’re in the eastern part.
Using the Mason Dixon line doesn’t work.
Maryland and West Virginia are south of the Line.
Make it anywhere north of the Potomac River at DC.
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