Posted on 12/09/2018 2:29:57 PM PST by Blue House Sue
Conservatives do not do well in the cities. We assume, strangely, that this indicates a problem with the cities rather than a problem with . . . us. We may as well be trying to sell New York City and Los Angeles Edsels full of New Coke — and cursing the consumers for being too thick to appreciate what we are offering.
New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia — as far as conservatives are concerned, these may as well be so many Sodoms upon which we are all too happy to call down fire and judgment. But it’s not only the coastal dens of sin that we have written off: In Texas — Texas! — Republican office-seekers (a reasonable if imperfect proxy for conservative political tendencies) are largely shut out of the cities: Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, El Paso — all are reliably Democratic. There is no Texas city larger than Fort Worth that routinely elects Republican mayors or that can be relied upon to support Republican candidates in state and national elections.
And if any American city should have a prestigious institution of higher education in it, it may as well be Pyongyang.
But if there is something conservatives hate worse than American cities, it is European cities. On cable-news shows, on talk radio, and at conservative conferences, conservatives talk about London and Paris as though they sit on the lower circles of Dante’s hellscape. Oslo? Helsinki? Zurich? Madrid? Lisbon? They may look like perfectly nice, cultured, thriving world cities on the outside, but conservatives are sure that they are prefigurations of the coming caliphate.
We prefer the “Real America,” which apparently means depopulated rural areas and moribund Rust Belt mill towns, outer-ring suburbs, declining mega-churches, Idaho, Oklahoma, Utah, Wyoming. We aren’t even very sure about Montana these days. If by the “Real America” you mean the parts of the country where the people and the capital are, we are not quite so sure of ourselves.
I loved CoD. 10 ft in front of Greg Allman one show. Nice place...
Friend and I played guitar on Throckmorton in a nook behind Razoo’s at times. Cleaned up good when conventions were in town (500 or so a night). Nice little side gig.
I kinda miss Ft Worth.
Yes it is insolvent. I knew a firemarshall who retired at 55 pulling in over 200k a year. WTH?
The Commandment to not murder makes no such distinction.
One solution to fix Austin, TX, is to move the State capitol and UTA both to Langtry, TX.
Let the Leftwad parasites go there and be away from decent human beings. No offense to any decent humans already living in Langtry!
Bill must be spinning in his grave...
I like Ft Worth. Especially Angelo’s BBQ
But I digress....
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I lived in Miami for most of my life—NOT going back!
cities are anachronisms.
They came into existence on waterways, rail lines and roads as places where men concentrated capital-money, supplies and labor from all over the world-to undertake projects for the common need.
No need to be so geographically bound today. Money-instead of gold and silver-has become electrons, information is the substance of trade, while goods and material are individually directly distributed by truck and mailman. The efficiencies that initially made the suburbs possible are now making the city obsolete.
The “debt sinks” in the USA-the “trillion -dollar” debt sinks-are the major metropolitan centers. Look at their muni-bond values. A dumpster fire that will never be put out-but eventually will be allowed to burn itself out once Fed.gov gets the picture.
Mass illegal immigration and the attendant Federal extortion monies that come with it are all that keep Chicago, LA, SF, and half a dozen other major cities alive
“The efficiencies that initially made the suburbs possible are now making the city obsolete.”
Most cities are growing and becoming more densely populated, and to reflect that, property values in cities are increasing.
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