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've never seen more prescription drug containers (big assumption there) pulled out in public in one day my whole life...
She's certainly out of step with me. I don't have any "European friends". But what do I know, I live in flyover country.
Disconsolatte! Great name. A double disconsolatte with extra pathos and a sprinkle of shadenfreude.
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I hope they feel this way every election. It makes me feel better....
As far as I'm concerned, Manhattan can drown in Latte.
"New Yorkers are savvy," she said. "We have street smarts. Whereas people in the Midwest are more influenced by what their friends say."
Oh, Brother
These people make me want to barf. Who do they think they are...because they live in NYC that they are SMARTER than a midwesterner? That a midwesterner believes everything someone tells them? What condescending snobs.
Or even the rest of the state.
the only places that went heavier for Kerry were France and San Francisco.
Most NYers would kill to have my house in New York City and I'm the dumb one? But Chicago is on that same Island. Bush beat Kerry by 300,000 votes outside of Cook County.
Man, wait til Rush gets ahold of this one.
"Who do they think they are...because they live in NYC that they are SMARTER than a midwesterner? "
I am reminded of the famous New Yorker cartoon map of the world as seen by a New Yorker. The entire world is Manhattan with a little strip west of the Hudson disappearing to the Pacific Ocean. Flyover country doesn't exist.
In New York it's mind over matter:
"I don't mind and you don't matter".
There's that world-famous New York City "diversity" that they love to brag about so much...
This lady is out of step with a place that is out of step, but she's not in-step with anything at all.
...and what do you think they think of southerners?
When they come down here "on holiday" we treat them as we would wish to be treated, they mistake our manners for simplemindedness.
Having said all that, I sure did have lots of fun while I was there!
"What's different about New York City is it tends to bring people together and so we can't ignore each others' dreams and values and it creates a much more inclusive consciousness,"
I'm less than a hour drive away from four different bigtime liberal bastions including one that rivals NYC in liberalism (Ann Arbor) and another one (Detroit) that rivals Harlem in democrat percentage. There's a reason my county exceeded its goal by 10,000 Bush votes and went for him by almost 63%. We know your type.
"We need to bring our way of life, which is honoring diversity and having compassion for people with different lifestyles, on a trip around the country."
You people don't get it. The problem isn't diversity. We're very diverse out here. The problem is your leftisms lack of respect for "diversity" that doesn't match your ideology. You leftists force your crap into our schools, our courts, and everything else. If there is anything we out here hate, it is when you leftists, whether it be from NYC, LA, or Davison MI(Michael Moore), force your crap down our throats. Leave us the hell alone and let us make our own decisions.
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