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In reply to the discussion: Reddest states, whitest states, blackest states, and scapegoats [View all]rrneck
(17,671 posts)18. This is an interesting sentence.
I submit that when a group of people, consistently over many years, chooses to rage against the blackest states for the sins of the whitest, under the guise that they hate the reddest, when the reddest are in fact the whitest, there is some kind of bias involved.
I think you might be confusing correlation with causation. Check out this map.
Check out the exurbs around major population centers. There's your conflict.
Nobody ever called me a statistician, and if they did I might even take offense. But I wonder how many people in those exhurbs qualify for the title petite bourgeois? The real money is still on the east and west coast, but the pretenders to the throne have their fiefdoms surrounding clusters of poor. Most don't know it yet, but they are in the process of getting screwed by the royalty on the coasts, but in the meantime the culture wars pitting red against blue and white against black diverts attention from the only color that matters: green.
I think you might be confusing correlation with causation. Check out this map.
Check out the exurbs around major population centers. There's your conflict.
Nobody ever called me a statistician, and if they did I might even take offense. But I wonder how many people in those exhurbs qualify for the title petite bourgeois? The real money is still on the east and west coast, but the pretenders to the throne have their fiefdoms surrounding clusters of poor. Most don't know it yet, but they are in the process of getting screwed by the royalty on the coasts, but in the meantime the culture wars pitting red against blue and white against black diverts attention from the only color that matters: green.
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Reddest states, whitest states, blackest states, and scapegoats [View all]
carolinayellowdog
Jun 2013
OP
You ignore the problem that the blackest states are not represented according to their population.
LonePirate
Jun 2013
#9
looking for the 2012 presidential vote rankings but here is a link about most and least educated
carolinayellowdog
Jun 2013
#12
I have noticed that before, especially when looking at a population map of the entire country.
Jamastiene
Jun 2013
#17
Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, Atlanta, Birmingham, Charlotte, Philadelphia even
carolinayellowdog
Jun 2013
#19
I notice you didn't put the 'bluest' states in your list -- because that would undermine your
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#20
Your list came up blank but I already mentioned two of these and gave another "bluest" list (#14)
carolinayellowdog
Jun 2013
#24
The great remigration has already done a lot for VA,FL,NC and can help turn GA,SC, TX blue
carolinayellowdog
Jun 2013
#29
Reddest States, Straightest States....I see the nation as two sets of States, good and bad.
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2013
#32
which of those "reds" is a possible win for anti-discrimination, to become a good state?
carolinayellowdog
Jun 2013
#33