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| The Two Americas of 2016 | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Nov 17 2016, 03:55 PM (185 Views) | |
| dcbl | Nov 17 2016, 03:55 PM Post #1 |
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The Two Americas of 2016 For many Americans, it feels as if the 2016 election split the country in two. To visualize this, we took the election results and created two new imaginary nations by slicing the country along the sharp divide between Republican and Democratic Americas. ![]()
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Republicans sign checks on the front, democrats sign them on the back…True story! | |
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| George Aligator | Nov 17 2016, 04:23 PM Post #2 |
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This kind of urban-rural split is common in advanced democracies. When I lived in Sweden, the divide between the Lutheran countryside and the ultra-progressive cities was so sharp that many Swedes across the spectrum were deeply alarmed. A similar divide has happened in Austria and Switzerland. The divisions are real but there are even stronger ties, such as language and history. The pendulum swings both ways, although there can be a lot of quotidian pain along the path. In the end, the cities usually prevail because they ride the Zeitgeist while the country tends to mere reaction. |
| Conservatism is a social disease | |
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| Harambe4Trump | Nov 17 2016, 04:28 PM Post #3 |
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There is a real America consisting of red-blooded yeomen who can go to an abaondoned town cemetary and see where their great grandparents were buried. They even have a relic from when a distant ancestor fought at Gettysburg. This America voted for Trump. And then there is a fraud which has been imported here to take political power away from the first group and to dilute their wages. They are not America and have no legitimate claim upon her. Their long dead ancestors are not buried here. |
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Skipping leg day is the equivalent of a woman having an abortion. You're ashamed of it, and it was probably unnecessary. #MAGA #wallsnotwars | |
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| George Aligator | Nov 17 2016, 04:39 PM Post #4 |
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The Americans you describe are a small minority of the population, although the voting pattern you claim would be a bit more accurate if you restricted your definition to people whose ancestors fought on the Confederate side at Gettysburg. In any case, Americans descended exclusively from ancestors who migrated here before the Civil War are concentrated in the Appalachian South and rare in the Upper Midwest, where North Europeans immigrated in hordes after 1865. |
| Conservatism is a social disease | |
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