Posted on 04/02/2011 12:39:50 PM PDT by neverdem
Two milestones in the long, painful decline of the blue social model were reached this week and reported, of all places, in the pages of the very éminence grise of the monde bleu: the New York Times.
The first was a piece of national and historical news: The Census reported that waves of blue state blacks fled the stagnant job opportunities, high taxes and rotten social conditions of the mostly blue northern states to seek better lives for themselves in the south..
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Within those states, Chicago and the city of the New York (widely considered among the most successful cities in the country) are the places Blacks are deserting. 17 percent of the Black flight from Big Blue is from the Empire State; after almost a century of trailblazing social policy, New York State has succeeded in creating the most hostile environment for Blacks in the country...
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When whites leave failing blue cities and states, the pundits call this racism: all those white Californians fleeing Nancy Pelosi’s utopia for less ambitious jurisdictions where ordinary people can do things like get jobs and buy homes are clearly pathetic trailer trash hicks too dumb, too selfish and above all too racist to understand the gloriously multicultural blue beauty of California today.
So what are we going to call the young, educated Blacks making similar choices? Dumb cracker racists?
The failure of blue social policy to create an environment which works for Blacks is the most devastating possible indictment of the 20th century liberal enterprise in the United States. Helping Blacks achieve the kind of equality and opportunity long denied them was more than one of many justifications for blue social policy: it was the defining moral task that has challenged and shaped American liberalism for the last fifty years.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.the-american-interest.com ...
BRAVO!!!
Btt
America’s New Electorate
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/04/americas-new-electorate/73317/
They feel strongly that Obama will win in 2012.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/03/the-conservative-states-of-america/71827/
It appears many states are going conservative.
It’s the opposite. The ones looking for jobs are leaving. The ones living off welfare are staying.
Turn out the lights, please.
Can you be more emphatic next time?
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