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The Geography of Trumpism
NY Times ^
| March 12, 2016
| NEIL IRWIN and JOSH KATZ
Posted on 03/12/2016 11:32:20 AM PST by Steelfish
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posted on
03/12/2016 11:32:20 AM PST
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Steelfish
To: Steelfish
In other words, the poorly educated and often mocked low info voters.
A generation ago, people would call them blue collar stiffs.
My father, who never finished grade school, was that kind of guy.
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posted on
03/12/2016 11:37:22 AM PST
by
goldstategop
((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
To: Steelfish
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posted on
03/12/2016 11:41:12 AM PST
by
Bobalu
(I'm spitting on my hands, and hoisting the black flag!)
To: Bobalu
Puerile! Address the “substance” of the article.
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posted on
03/12/2016 11:42:09 AM PST
by
Steelfish
To: Steelfish
So it is abundantly clear that you do not consider yourself to be American. Now I understand. Thanks for clearing that up for us.
To: Steelfish
Gee..."Americans" are most likely to support Trump.So the Africans...Irish...Germans....Mexicans...Italians,etc are supporting The Former twelfth Lady?
I say "outstanding"! If you insist on being seen as African...or Irish...or whatever then you need to *be* in Africa,or Ireland,or where ever.As Teddy Roosevelt once said there's no room in this country for hyphenated Americans.
To: Steelfish
From a statistical standpoint, those correlations are so low, both the positive and negative, that they are meaningless. They could have done a correlation with car color and Trump supporter and hit the same “correlation” levels.
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posted on
03/12/2016 11:43:46 AM PST
by
patq
To: Steelfish
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic
There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.Theodore Roosevelt,October 1915
To: Steelfish
People whose ancestors have been here for many generations don’t have a single ancestral nation with which to identify. Me, I have an English surname, but ancestry from: England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, and several native tribes. The only answer to give to such a question is “American.” There is no other country to which I can turn, for identity or anything else.
To: Steelfish
Pretty snide.
There are some good rejoinders in the article's comments, though.
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posted on
03/12/2016 11:48:00 AM PST
by
x
To: patq
Don ya wanna know who’s really supporting Trump?
Nazis and white racists! Cue the George Wallace meme.
No one supports a Nazi and a white racist, you know.
If you’re a Leftist, you know Trump is addressing his supporters in code.
Every one knows what he really means.
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posted on
03/12/2016 11:49:33 AM PST
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goldstategop
((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
To: Steelfish
When the Census Bureau asks Americans about their ancestors, some respondents dont give a standard answer like English or German. Instead, they simply answer American. Well, when some of our ancestors were Massachusetts Bay Colony settlers, and our ancestry contains a mix of ethnic groups from every continent--"American" is a pretty good description.
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posted on
03/12/2016 11:50:14 AM PST
by
exDemMom
(Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
To: exDemMom
Same situation here, but my earliest were Jamestown, VA. Beat you by two decades, lol.
To: RegulatorCountry
Now we have Southerners voting for a “New York” values Yankee.
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posted on
03/12/2016 11:53:45 AM PST
by
goldstategop
((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
To: patq
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posted on
03/12/2016 11:55:49 AM PST
by
exDemMom
(Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
To: Robert DeLong
Can you explain you logic that escapes us all? At least the others offered a thoughtful appraisal of the news story.
To: exDemMom
Imagine the disgraceful attitudes they will get from Hilary/ Bernie supporters?
And do you think Hillary’s inner city support has not been bypassed by the wonderful modern society?
Won’t be finding many Muslims who just identify as American.
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posted on
03/12/2016 11:59:15 AM PST
by
Williams
(Dear God, please save us from the Democrats. And the Republicans.)
To: Steelfish
When given the box to check I always check “Native American” which I am, my parents were, my grandparents were and my great grandparents were too I think. So dammit, I am one too!
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03/12/2016 12:01:56 PM PST
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: Steelfish
This article is crowing about the victory of cosmopolitanism and the dominance of anti-Americanism, the collapse of our economy, the destruction of our morals, the ruination of our political institutions and the scattering our once united demographic into ineffective little units leaderless and unorganized.
To: RegulatorCountry
Same story for my family. Some of my ancestors were here since time immemorial, some came from the British Isles before the Revolution, and some came here from Africa in chains.
I don’t know what else to call myself, but American.
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posted on
03/12/2016 12:05:33 PM PST
by
Windflier
(Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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