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Richard's avatar

Dems have “to negotiate with Black political power” to be meaningful in the South? If that is considered insightful then the whole dialogue was a waste of time and oxygen. In AL, where I live, blacks already vote 90+% for Dems and hold the Dem party hostage. There is no concievable way they could get more to vote for Dems. Their game plan is a failure before starting if Dems think they need to pander to blacks even more than they have.

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James Wright's avatar

David French is from Alabama and grew up in Kentucky. He’s a southerner by every sense of the word. They are talking about his people and his home while he does nothing. Pathetic.

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TJ's avatar

“10 million residents, or 25% of the 40 million total are foreign born. To ignore the frictions this creates is willful ignorance at this point.”

95% of homeless people on the streets are ranting in unaccented American English and are almost certainly natural born citizens.

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Viddao's avatar

I hate these people so much.

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MediocreLocal's avatar

I like how they ignore that most of those southern states are more racially diverse, and thus more cosmopolitan, than the deep blue states they put on a high pedestal.

Houston is more culturally diverse than pretty much any northeastern city other than NYC, and certainly more than Chicago, Boston, Philly, Seattle, Portland, etc.

People with a $350,000 house budget can barely buy a dilapidated shack in L.A., and can’t buy anything in NYC or Boston. In the south they can get a 1800+ sq fr house.

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Pete's avatar

I live around extremely “progressive” people, and I hear these kinds of condescensions (and worse) about southerners all the time. If I’m being honest, I held those types of attitudes at one point in my life, but now I find it viscerally disgusting. Good job highlighting this thanks for writing.

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DMC's avatar

While the dysfunction of California nyc and chicago can be overemphasized they are real. I he rationalizations that crime is “getting better” and homelessness is a result of the failure of capitalism seem to hide the fact that these pathologies are not a bug but a feature of their vision of society

While you might think that far fetched remember that last year this time that there was no way tongue the border, any wall was breechable so there was no point in trying.

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