Posted on 11/03/2004 7:39:23 PM PST by Lorianne
triking a characteristic New York pose near Lincoln Center yesterday, Beverly Camhe clutched three morning newspapers to her chest while balancing a large latte and talked about how disconsolate she was to realize that not only had her candidate, John Kerry, lost but that she and her city were so out of step with the rest of the country.
"Do you know how I described New York to my European friends?" she said. "New York is an island off the coast of Europe."
Like Ms. Camhe, a film producer, three of every four voters in New York City gave Mr. Kerry their vote, a starkly different choice than the rest of the nation. So they awoke yesterday with something of a woozy existential hangover and had to confront once again how much of a 51st State they are, different in their sensibilities, lifestyles and polyglot texture from most of America. The election seemed to reverse the perspective of the famous Saul Steinberg cartoon, with much of the land mass of America now in the foreground and New York a tiny, distant and irrelevant dot.
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I once traveled to New York as part of a business training course and had a tour of Hunts' Point Terminal Market in the Bronx, which supplies all of the food going into Manhattan.
Did you know that at any one time, there is only a 2-day supply of food on Manhattan Island, including restaurants and food stores?
I'll bet they'd become a "red state" fast if they suddenly had to grow their own food and fend for themselves...
I'm so far into the back of beyond in a red state that I've never even had a latte. Could Beverly fathom that?
"People who are more competitive and proficient at what they do tend to gravitate toward cities," he said.
I almost can't believe that people like this truly exist.
"... my European friends?"
Ms. Camhe, a film producer,
Those three snips should paint a picture: a pretentious, latte-drinking, Eurotrash wannabe who doesn't have a real job. Not exactly a slice of Middle America is it?
different in their sensibilities, lifestyles and polyglot texture from most of America.
That's a polite way of saying "efette, self-absorbed snobs who are culturally isolated on their own island."
... much of the land mass of America now in the foreground and New York a tiny, distant and irrelevant dot.
Yes, New York, like France, had its zenith in another era, another time, when people like F Scott Fitzgerald and William Saroyan were all the rage and "Gotham" was a metaphor for the American melting pot.
Now it's more like a chamber pot. Or "a distant, irrelevant dot."
By the way, "disconsolatte" is brilliant!
Good one, hispana!
That's the same way I felt when I gassed up my jacked up "Z" while drinking a cup of Seven-Eleven coffee in a styrofoam cup.
Ahhh, life is good!
Detroit 310504 votes
Bush 18329 - 5.90%
Kerry 290887 - 93.68%
New York, we still consider you a brother. You took a hard hit for the nation, and we will stand strong for you until you can get back on your feet and think clearly.
Just whir some hot milk in a blender with some disolved Sanka and Voila! you've got latte.
My way ____ 23 cents
Starbucks ___ $5.35
I like New York, but they're way out of touch. NYC is like a fish bowl full of sea monkeys trying to ponder what the humans are doing. They're so tied up in their microcosm, that they can't even comprehend the number of experiences out here in the rest of the country that they haven't had.
I sometimes think that a lot of them believe that farms are all like green acres, and we're all uneducated rubes who intermarry with their cousins. The only place I've seen that's more out of touch is Southern Cali. And they're delusional. New Yorkers are just misguided when it comes to the rest of us, and vehement in the opinion that they have the best opinion. They even argue amongst themselves.
When I fist moved to NJ, it took me 6 months to adapt and not want to kick just about everyone's @ss for how rude they seemed. I finally realized that they didn't even realize they were out of line in most cases, it was just how they were.
I've know many who moved out here to the country, and they either adapt and love it, wondering how they ever lived in such a metro area, or they move out to get away from the rat race and immediately start trying to make everyone and everything just like them.
One of the funniest things I ever did was take a friend from Jersey back home to Texas for a few days. He got freaked out hard partying with us, was blown away by all the firepower we went through when we took the guns out to the country target shooting, and was totally weirded out by the other southern states we went through, Arkansas in particular. He bought a big cowboy hat and gaudy pair of boots, and wore them onto the plane when he went back. He admitted that most everybody in Jersey loved my stories about the south, but didn't really believe them. They thought they were just Texas style tall tales. He got way more than his mind had bargained for.
They're just a different breed. Like the platypus.
New Yorkers are not influenced by what their friends say, unless their friends are European, or in the Media.
When Civil War 2 begins, it will be too easy for the Red States to bring Manhattan to its knees.
Yeah, we wouldn't want to injure masses of people, even if they want to kill us.
And these bastards "disenfranchise" my red upstate county every election year because of their political debauchery.
Right, diversity in the things that they say don't matter (race, etc.), but no diversity in thought.
#20c BTTT
3 if they're lucky. I read once that in the event of a major catastrophe that disrupted the food supply, power, etc., about 80 percent of the people would be dead within 2 weeks. Mainly from violence and rioting.
What everyone is missing is that its not red state vs blue state, it is suburbia-rural America vs the urban centers. Almost reminds me of pre-revolutionary France. The elites that are quoted in this article are the "let them eat cake" people of our time.
I think every state should have 1 electoral vote. Each state in the union is just as important as any other. Right now, states with large urban centers have far more sway in national politics than those with smaller populations. It makes the majority of the states unequal partners in the union.
This says it all, I never ever had a latte, whatever that is.
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