i saw the A&M burn on twitter this morning. laughed. pulled up a few other clips from the show. couldn't make it through a single one. 'thank god i'm a country boy' and mccaunaghey were both brutal.
for context. 2016 Margins in each:
#4 - Texas - -3.1% (becoming a purple state). Trump by 9%
#5 - Arizona - -3.0% (becoming a purple state). Trump by 3.5%
#6 - Florida - -3.0% (purple-ish state). Trump by 1.2%
Even wave-less, it wouldn't be out of the question me if that would be the difference in FL. non-whites would have to go 2.1D-0.9R to make up that 1.2%
yeah, i thought two senators were fairly involved in these discussions based on some of the stuff that came out a while back. johnson was definitely one. can't remember the other.
No. That's how it is. What I'm pointing out is that your solution to gerrymandering ("Don't look at party affiliation, race, wealth, anything") may made aesthetically pleasing maps, but is illegal. It ignores minority opportunity districts.
people make this suggestion every few months on here. that would take repeal of section 2 of the voting rights act because of minority opportunity districts.
imagine a scenario where there was racially polarized voting. only through de facto segregation would you ever have a minority representative under your proposal. not exactly a worthy goal. and one the VRA is specifically acknowledges exists.
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/delaware-county-council-philadelphia-suburbs-democrats-20191106.html
probably more important for the 2020 implications than the Kentucky celebration is the Pennsylvania celebration.
That show I read it too, with the good news caveat of saying trump did try to make the gov race a trump referendum, and that still was not enough. The implication being even trump mind control only goes so far with.
I’m surprised they put this proposition on the ballot right now. It reminds me of a bathroom bill or something. Totally meaningless but designed to drive up a particular turn out. But there’s nothing else to turn out for here.
for a lot of those: it's a product of the US slowly losing its place as the shining city on the hill. when it was unquestioned, it's easy to assume whatever we were doing was the best. majority=good. order=good. status quo=good. now you have wealth inequality, lack of economic opportunity, population crunches. things get questioned.
as for 'melting pot = good', I doubt that was ever a majority opinion. it was just something people that wrote textbooks would pay lip service to. i don't think we need to catalog how every new group over the last 150 years was considered a plague on the pristine population that was here.