Posted on 03/17/2019 8:16:28 PM PDT by Perseverando
A new study reveals the most intolerant county in America is not Rabun County in northeastern Georgia, where the film Deliverance was shot.
Nor was it Albany County, Wyoming, where Matthew Shepard was killed. And it was not Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, where Emmett Till was lynched more than a half-century ago, explained a report by the Foundation for Economic Education.
Its Suffolk County, Massachusetts, and its mostly white population of just under 800,000 that includes the heart of the Boston-Cambridge-Newton region.
Politically, Suffolk County is about as progressive as America gets. The countys three congressional districts the 5th, 7th, and 8th are represented by progressive Democrats: Rep. Katherine Clark, Rep. Ayanna Soyini Pressley, and Rep. Stephen Lynch. Just 5 percent of county residents identify as Republican. No GOP presidential candidate has claimed Suffolk County since Calvin Coolidge in 1924, FEE said.
It cited the survey commissioned by the Atlantic to assess the nations tolerance level.
In this part of the country, nine out of every 10 couples appear to share the same partisan leaning. Eight out of every 10 neighborhoods are political homogeneous. This means that people in Boston may have fewer cross-cutting relationships, as researchers put it. It is a very urban county with a relatively high education level. All these things tend to correlate with partisan prejudice.
Most people, The Atlantic notes, discriminate against the political opposition explicitly and implicitly. We do this in whom we hire, date, and marry. We make snap judgments about peoples patriotism, compassion, and intelligence, FEE said.
Some Americans, the results show, are more inclined toward this than others.
The makeup of Suffolk County fits closely with what researchers identified as Americas most politically intolerant bunch: woke white liberals.'
The Atlantic said, In general, the most politically intolerant Americans,
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Sounds like a good place to ship a few bus fulls of illegals coming across the border and include more Somalians from Minnesota.
Among the people who signed the petition seeking to shut down the school were Julia Child ("bon appetite,little black kids") and Laurence Tribe (who never quite made it to the Supreme Court).
I had a somewhat similar experience...for decades I lived in one of the nicer,more affluent,suburbs of Boston.It turns out that after a while my neighborhood became quite "hot". People were being offered $500,000 (and more) for their small yet sturdy houses situated on 1/4 acre lots.Once bought the little houses were knocked down and two million dollar (plus) McMansions were placed on the lots.
Not long before I moved out my neighborhood received a proposal to build some "affordable housing". "OH NO!" said the oh-so-progressive neighbors..."think of the traffic",they said. Of course none of them admitted that it was the dark skinned residents that they were *really* worried about.
Grew up there. Leftist Nazi Central Central.
Ah yes, Julia Child, who wrote in the preface of one of her cookbooks that she “could never break bread at the same table with a Republican”.
Hypocrites!
“The Atlantic said: The irony is that Americans remain in agreement on many actual issues. Eight out of 10 Americans think that political correctness is a problem; the same number say that hate speech is a concern too. Most Americans are worried about the federal budget deficit, believe abortion should be legal in some or all cases, and want stricter gun regulation. Nevertheless, we are more and more convinced that the other side poses a threat to the country.”
Sounds like they’re all from one side to me.
Lynch is a Democrat, but I wouldn’t call him a progressive. Most progressives would call him an intolerable conservative.
People forget that the race riots of the 60s didn't occur in the south.
Being progressive means never having to admit you’re wrong
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