Philadelphia was (and probably still is) a blue-collar town at its heart. No matter how many white collar workers there are in healthcare (most of the finance and banking guys move to King of Prussia etc to escape the dreaded wage tax in the 1990s), or how many vote D or R, the town generally values hard work over form. This is why guys like Nick Foles, Jason Kelce, Dr J, Darryl Dawkins, the entire 1974-1976 Flyers squad, and the like walk on water. Yea, there are always doofuses - and with the MOVE bombing by Wilson Goode and Ed Rendell you cannot pin the good and bad on race - and, hey, it IS a city, but all in all, it’s better than other places....AND you can legally carry.
Most of the Blue Collar people I know are Philly burbs, or just over the bridge Jersey burbs...
• the sense that the Founding of our country as well as Judeo-Christianity set the cultural tone,
• the "brotherly love" melting pot of many ethnicities now overrun by the homosexual agenda declaring itself supreme,
• the persecution of the Boy Scouts leading up to their ouster from their building (and contributing to the gay takeover movement),
• the endless succession of Democrat City governments,
• the injection of illegals and muslim immigrants into vulnerable neighborhoods via Obama's programs,
• the takeover of South Philly by the Democrat persecution of Joey Vento and the Catholic Church as well as the establishment of legal gambling on the South Philly waterfront,
• the increase in violent leftist or feral street mob activity spurred by social media,
• the ruination of the academic and historic culture of UPenn by leftist radicals,
• and on the practical side, the disappearance of affordable parking near the downtown business and shopping districts (whille the taxed-to-death population has decreased).
it used to be a much more user-friendly place to inhabit.
Disagree.
Philly is a drug-riddled shithole with terrible public schools and increasing crime. It is Union dominated and has a confiscatory wave tax.
I hate living 20 miles from it.