Posted on 11/15/2017 10:25:18 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Politics really is ruining Thanksgiving, according to data from 10 million cellphones
By Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post
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November 15, 2017 11:08 AM
In the wake of last year's bitterly contested presidential election, "politically divided" families cut their Thanksgiving celebrations short by an average of 20 to 30 minutes. Republican voters were more likely to bail on Democratic families than vice-versa. And reductions in family time were steeper in areas that saw more political ads.
Those are among the conclusions of a new working paper by M. Keith Chen of UCLA and Ryne Rohla of Washington State University. The paper matches location data from 10 million smartphones to precinct-level voting data for the 2016 election, painting a detailed portrait of how people from predominantly Democratic and Republican areas spent their 2016 Thanksgiving holiday.
In recent years, Thanksgiving has become a politically fraught time, often pitting family members with diametrically opposed political beliefs against each other over plates of turkey and mashed potatoes. Last year, for instance, news outlets across the country published stories on how to navigate political discussion with Trump-supporting uncles and socialist nephews. A majority of Americans said they hoped to avoid Thanksgiving politics completely.
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Those eeeevil Pilgrims, Columbus, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, on and on and on.
With this kneeling crap, No sports talk.
Can’t even discus the damned weather without the ‘climate change/global warming’ arguments either....................
Engaging in debate with democrats is like wrestling with pigs in a sty full of muddy pig poop.
The pig likes it and will win with experience but will never learn a thing.
Isn’t it ironic that liberals preach diversity and non-judgementalism to us when they are the most close-minded, bigoted, judgemental people in the country?
I remember the Fraud and Michael Robinson the past few years telling their worwshippers how to deal with conservatives over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.
I no longer have Leftist friends. The Leftist family members avoid me, and with some trepidation.
I’m cool with that.
Really. Just how was this data acquired and how deep does it go? Cell phone users qualified by assumed political affiliation, that might be a little too interesting to certain social engineering types to just leave it at that.
We never invite liberals to dinners.
How do they know if the republicans bailed on the democrats or visa-versa?
Same here. I disowned liberal family members and keep my distance, not worth the arguing over politics. Funny thing, I never bring politics into family gatherings but inevitably the liberal members always do and the fireworks happen. I'm also cool with staying away from the crazies.
It just hasn’t been the same since 2013 when Obama told people to “Talk To Your Family About Obamacare Coverage On Thanksgiving”. /s
I ruined the last Christmas for seven of my relatives including my wife, children and sons-in-law. They all supported Obama.
At dinner I told them they were all a bunch of losers and then put on my Trump hat which I had hidden in my lap.
The truth is, after my parents passed, I can go really long periods without seeing the rest of my family. Thanks Sub-Driver.
Well since I’m boycotting the NFL something has to pre-empt the usual Thanksgiving Day discussion of “boy, are the Detroit Lions crappy or what?”
Yet liberals ignore how they deliberately injected politics with ads saying talk about Obamacare over holiday dinner.
They say they are inclusive but exclude the darned infidels, those evil conservatives.
It isn’t immoral to them but a reflection of their biases, that they and they alone are smart, rational, kind, educated, good.
I'm happy that none of my family have bought that line of bullshit - yet. This year, though, I'm certain that my dimwitted brother-in-law will want to rant about "assault weapons" again.
Oh, well. We'll just get an early start on Festivus this year (especially the "airing of grievances").
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