Posted on 04/25/2020 3:55:24 PM PDT by Bruiser 10
On the menu today: The possibility of another wave of Americans moving out of the big cities, the likelihood of some future pandemic further down the road, and how the Red America–Blue America divide is likely to be altered when we emerge from this crisis.
Yesterday on my work Facebook page, a reader asked, “Why is it that the places Covid-19 show up the most are in Democrat controlled areas?” As much as I’d like to believe that all the troubles in the world can eventually be traced back to Bill de Blasio, I responded, “Probably because ‘the places it shows up the most’ are large densely-packed cities with a lot of international and domestic air travel and high use of mass transit, where Democrats have been winning elections more than Republicans for at least a generation and in many cases several generations.”
You can split red and blue America in a lot of ways — race, age, religiosity — but arguably the strongest factor is geography. The “Big Sort” that Bill Bishop described has been at work for two decades. Sure, there are conservatives and Republicans who live in big cities and inner-ring suburbs, just rarely in the numbers that could make a difference. And there are progressives and Democrats who live in rural areas and exurbs, but again, rarely in the numbers that could make a difference in elections.
Kevin Williamson has noted that conservatives often don’t even try to persuade city-dwellers of the value of their ideas, and lapse into a casual to overt contempt of life in the big city.
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I hope they stay the heck away from here.
Very bad sign.
This is at the bottom of the slippery slope we have been on for the last few months....red states building walls to keep people out. Blue states building walls to keep people in.
Giuliani represented blue collar red NYC, Stateen Island, Marine Park, etc. Conservatives are all over America.
Stay in your cities, it’s nice and comfortable there, you can have everything delivered. Until it can’t. Even then, stay put.
I am reminded of a story comparing Confucius and Lao Tzo. Lao Tzu was agrarian, live in harmony with nature, relax, live with the Tao. Confucius was city, live by the rules (Confucius say) work, work,work. Is it any wonder that people have a different perspective then?
Build the wall.
Liberalism metastasizes like cancer and, like cancer, kills everything it touches.
Oh fudge!! That’s all Texas needs more evil RATS from blue states!
Made me think of the prophecy book The Vision from David Wilkerson. He said people would rush to the country and want to become self sufficient.
(Page 18 - the Part at the bottom of the page)
https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/k24s3/davidwilkersonthevision
THERE IS NO VACANCY HERE IN TEXAS..now go away and don’t come back ever!!!
Speaking of Giuliani, where is he? Gone dark?
Ah, Mr. Kevin "Small town white people should all die and make room for those smart brown slaves er... cheap workers to flood in" Williamson.
Personally I ignore ignorant bigots. That is why I do not bother to explain anything to him. He could not understand it any way.
“Are cities still worth it? Many will conclude they are. The opportunities are unparalleled, lots of jobs are there, the arts scenes are thriving...bla, bla, bla...won’t easily give up all of that. Our cities will not empty out.”
Cities can be wonderful*.
*wonderful if you can afford to avoid contact with the human debris democrat cities attract.
The NR (Never-Trumper Review) still struggling because no one wants to go on one of their idiotic cruises anymore?
So not only do they spread their filthy politics ,they also spread that wretched disease. Surely there must be some normal people in that diaspora.
He’s on YouTube making commentary videos.
Stay away from Georgia. After all, CNN says we don’t know how to handle Kung Flu.
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