America Conservative. Harvard Professor Edward L. Glaeser takes a look at why America is more conservative than Europe. Here's a brief synapsis. Glaeser believes it largely a racial issue. Because blacks are poor, whites don't want to help them. Because of that, we oppose perfectly good socialist programs adopted in Europe. Oh yeah, the Supreme Court is mean and nasty. I'll get to this article in more depth in my next post, but I will leave you with the sub-headline: Europe is in the 21st century, but we remain locked in the 18th.
Next up for consideration is Pouty White People. According to this article, whites are the most pessimistic racial group in the state. This is not because they recognize the real and significant problems the Golden State is facing, it is because they are wealthy white people who aren't willing to give new immigrants the same opportunities that were provided to the white immigrants to the state. In fairness, they do mention a group of whities that weren't welcome.
With the exception of the much-maligned "Oakies" and "Arkies" in the 1930s, native-born white migrants were generally welcomed to California by the state's establishment. The new arrivals' enthusiasm was not greeted with dread.
Hmmm. So, if you were reasonably well off or if you were resourceful, you were a welcome white person. But if you were a poor and unsophisticated white person, you were unwelcome. Seems to shoot the racial theory right in the ole butt, and turns it into another issue altogether. But that doesn't fit the liberal racial inequity obsession.
Ah yes, these are but two examples. And it obviously it just looks lefty because my rich, elitist, righty mind can't see that this is the mainstream (media).
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