"Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh?"
Posted on 12/10/2004 9:16:20 AM PST by JustAnotherOkie
Democrats' endless and often clueless stewing over the GOP's latest election triumphs just keeps getting funnier. Now they’re worried, with some justification, that fertile young conservatives are replacing dried-up old liberals.
Have you heard of "natalists"? They’re the left's new boogeyman. These curious Middle American creatures, it seems, care more about having a family than a summer home in the Hamptons. They tend to have conservative moral values. And ... they're reproducing!
Now the media elitists are examining this phenomenon of flyover country as if it's some sort of exotic species that must be dissected, though perhaps not exterminated.
The New York Times' David Brooks frets: "They are having three, four or more kids. Their personal identity is defined by parenthood. They are more spiritually, emotionally and physically invested in their homes than in any other sphere of life, having concluded that parenthood is the most enriching and elevating thing they can do. Very often they have sacrificed pleasures like sophisticated movies, restaurant dining and foreign travel, let alone competitive careers and disposable income, for the sake of their parental calling."
Oh, the agony of missing Hollywood's "sophisticated movies." Heavens, could there be people who'd rather raise their children than catch a double bill of "Kinsey" and "Saw"?
"People on the Great Plains and in the Southwest are much more fertile than people in New England or on the Pacific coast," Brooks worries.
"You can see surprising political correlations. As Steve Sailer pointed out in The American Conservative, George Bush carried the 19 states with the highest white fertility rates, and 25 of the top 26. John Kerry won the 16 states with the lowest rates."
New Republic frets: "Democrats swept the largely childless cities - true blue locales [such as] San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Boston and Manhattan have the lowest percentages of children in the nation - but generally had poor showings in those places where families are settling down, notably the Sun Belt cities, exurbs and outer suburbs of older metropolitan areas."
USA Today notes that President Bush won 474 of the nation's 573 fast-growing micropolitan areas (places too urban to be rural but too small to be metropolitan).
Brooks offers his latte-sipping readers a bit of reassurance: "Natalists are associated with red America, but they're not launching a jihad."
Wow. Someone at the New York Times admits that heartland America is not identical with Islamic terrorists. How progressive.
But when they turn 18, won't most of them rebel against their parents and vote Rat?
Make love not war--outbreed the opposition (c8
Unfortunately the Hispanics and Muslims are outbreeding all of us.
Probably not.
One thing that a lot of folks don't realize is that the serious left-wingers who rebelled "against their parents" in the 1960s and came into power in the 1970s-1990s were all red-diaper babies.
That is easy to do when your opposition is having trouble getting HIS HUSBAND pregnant.
Good point.
Didn't Fertile Young Conservatives sing "She Drives Me Crazy"?
Republican fecundity: what a beatiful thing! Inch by inch, row by row, gonna make the GOP grow....
Gee, I wonder how many future democrats are aborted every year by present democrats.
Speaking of dried up democrats, hows Babs these days?
Incredible. Can you believe the gall of these heartless, greedy, self-centered Red State bastards?
Abortion, buggery, contraception ... the ABCs of cultural suicide, heartily embraced by the left.
ROTFLMAO!
Owl_Eagle
"You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in. I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being"-Hillary Clinton
(Yes, she really said that
Peggy Noonan
The Case Against Hillary Clinton, pg 55)
I guess we should call them the 'Non Breeding Class'.
Yes, they might, once. Of course by the time they are 22, they are out of college, or at least paying for their own graduate degree, don't want to pay enourmous taxes, don't think soc.security will be there for them, and find that they are tired of the liberal crap they got in college. It happens. Train up a child....
When I turned 18 I didn't rebel against my parents as much as I rebelled against the politcal system in place.
"Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh?"
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