Delta Airlines cuts ties with the NRA, angers, alienates conservatives, risks major state tax break (Atlanta: sale, sales tax)

[MacInTx]

Originally Posted by Born 2 Roll

Add in the anxiety of outer-suburban, exurban and rural conservatives about how the ongoing economic expansion in Atlanta can, and likely will, further add to the ongoing demographic changes that are in progress around the Atlanta region ...

Many (though definitely not all) outer-suburban, exurban and rural residents look at the economic expansion in Atlanta and see a future in Georgia that looks like the present in such states as Illinois, New York, Maryland and even Virginia...

Gosh, this Born 2 Roll person must be a clairvoyant or something to know what all of these "outer-suburban, exurban and rural residents" think and feel.

[Otakumaster]

Originally Posted by MacInTx

Gosh, this Born 2 Roll person must be a clairvoyant or something to know what all of these "outer-suburban, exurban and rural residents" think and feel.

Do you disagree? He’s right most of the time.

[ATL Golfer]

Only 13 people used the NRA discount and people still think this is about Delta doing the right thing. Is this real life?

http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/02/news...ets/index.html

lulz

Amazing how manipulated Americans are. Kool Aid anyone?

Check out what REI did. That is a company doing the right thing. That is a company that cares about customers, the planet and everything btwn.

Delta's CEO just cares about cutting everyone in line on the 5yr waiting list at Capital City.

[bu2]

Originally Posted by ATL Golfer

Only 13 people used the NRA discount and people still think this is about Delta doing the right thing. This is real life.

lulz

Amazing how manipulated our society is.

Check out what REI did. That is a company doing the right thing. That is a company that cares about customers, the planet and everything btwn.

WaPo editorial on it:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...=.dd5f5c105712

"Remember when companies tried to stay out of politics? I’d imagine Delta Air Lines is recalling those days very fondly. The airline bowed to pressure from liberal activists to stop offering a group discount to the National Rifle Association’s annual convention. Now it’s facing a backlash from Georgia Republicans. Given that Delta’s headquarters and biggest hub are in Atlanta, that’s a big problem.
Delta is wanly protesting that it wasn’t trying to make a political statement but to keep out of politics altogether. But it ended the discount in response to a political pressure campaign. And the company made a point of announcing its decision on Twitter, rather than quietly informing the NRA. If anyone at Delta thought that this wouldn’t be taken as a swipe at the NRA, that person really needs to make some time to meet a few human beings while visiting our planet....

I don’t, of course, mean to suggest that a single boycott will lead to the dissolution of the Republic. The danger lies in the totalizing impulse it signifies, in which every activity, no matter how small, takes on some greater political implication. If we decide to make every single thing in our lives political, we risk becoming so estranged that we can no longer resolve our disputes through politics."

[AnsleyPark]

Originally Posted by MacInTx

Gosh, this Born 2 Roll person must be a clairvoyant or something to know what all of these "outer-suburban, exurban and rural residents" think and feel.

Born 2 Roll is the most thoughtful and knowledgeable person on this forum. Period. Full stop.

[-thomass]

I would vote B2R for governor. Can you submit your paperwork?

[JMatl]

Originally Posted by AnsleyPark

Born 2 Roll is the most thoughtful and knowledgeable person on this forum. Period. Full stop.

I absolutely agree, Ansley! We are very fortunate to have him here.

[JMatl]

Originally Posted by bu2

WaPo editorial on it:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...=.dd5f5c105712

"Remember when companies tried to stay out of politics? I’d imagine Delta Air Lines is recalling those days very fondly. The airline bowed to pressure from liberal activists to stop offering a group discount to the National Rifle Association’s annual convention. Now it’s facing a backlash from Georgia Republicans. Given that Delta’s headquarters and biggest hub are in Atlanta, that’s a big problem.
Delta is wanly protesting that it wasn’t trying to make a political statement but to keep out of politics altogether. But it ended the discount in response to a political pressure campaign. And the company made a point of announcing its decision on Twitter, rather than quietly informing the NRA. If anyone at Delta thought that this wouldn’t be taken as a swipe at the NRA, that person really needs to make some time to meet a few human beings while visiting our planet....

I don’t, of course, mean to suggest that a single boycott will lead to the dissolution of the Republic. The danger lies in the totalizing impulse it signifies, in which every activity, no matter how small, takes on some greater political implication. If we decide to make every single thing in our lives political, we risk becoming so estranged that we can no longer resolve our disputes through politics."

One of my favorite papers out there, but this is just sour grapes.

I'm sure they would be singing a totally different tune if United was on the receiving end of some yahoo Legislator from Virginia (home of their D.C hub) or Texas (home of their Houston hub) pulled the same mindless crap that Cagle did.

Yet another mindless swipe at Atlanta from a competing Metro, nothing to see here.

[Born 2 Roll]

Originally Posted by MacInTx

Gosh, this Born 2 Roll person must be a clairvoyant or something to know what all of these "outer-suburban, exurban and rural residents" think and feel.

Demographics, my friend... Demographics.

The Atlanta metropolitan area is growing faster, and growing more diverse, than the rest of Georgia as a whole.

The continuing fast population growth, fast economic growth and increasing ethnic, racial and sociopolitical diversification of the Atlanta metro area is driving significant changes in Georgia's overall demographic makeup as a whole.

Back in 1980, racial and ethnic minorities made up about just over 28% of Georgia's then-population of about 5.46 million residents.

As of 2016, racial and ethnic minorities made up nearly 47% of Georgia's 2016 population of about over 10.31 million residents (...Georgia's population grew to 10.42 million by 2017).

That means that non-Hispanic whites who once made up an overwhelming nearly three-fourths majority of Georgia's population now make up only about just over half of Georgia's population.

(...Non-Hispanic whites made up just under 72% of Georgia's population back in 1980, but made up just over 53% of Georgia's population as of 2016.)

The 2016 demographic makeup of the politically deep-red South Atlantic state of Georgia (which was roughly 47% racial/ethnic minority, 53% non-Hispanic white) was somewhat very similar to the 2016 demographic makeup of the politically deep-blue South Mid-Atlantic state of Maryland (which was roughly 49% racial/ethnic minority, 51% non-Hispanic white) and about 9 percentage points more diverse than the 2016 demographic makeup of the politically bluish-purple South Atlantic state of Virginia (which was roughly 38% racial/ethnic minority, 62% non-Hispanic white).

...Meaning that, demographically, Georgia is effectively already not just a 'purple' state, but seemingly a 'blue' state... Which is something that means that Georgia appears to be a ticking political time-bomb that potentially could detonate at any time, particularly if Georgia's electorate starts to much more closely resemble the demographic makeup of its population, which is much closer to the demographics of a politically 'deep-blue' South Atlantic state like Maryland than the demographics of neighboring politically 'deep-red' Southern states like Tennessee and Alabama.

In minority and moderate/progressive voters voted at much higher rates that were closer to rates at which they are represented in Georgia's population, it might not only turn Georgia into a 'purple' North Carolina or Virginia-style swing state but might also turn Georgia into a Maryland-style 'purplish-blue' state.

...Which is what is driving the political anxieties of many conservative outer-suburban, exurban and rural voters in a deep-red state like Georgia that appears to be trending heavily purple/blue demographically.

Conservative outer-suburban, exurban and rural voters (who vote overwhelmingly Republican at this point) fear that the ongoing economic expansion and demographic changes in the Atlanta metro region that are driving changes in the state's overall population will drive continued changes in the state's electorate which will eventually make them a shrinking electoral minority in the state's political structure.

Conservative outer-suburban, exurban and rural voters fear that the likely changes in Georgia's electorate and political structure in the not-too-distant future will mean that they will be forced to accept policies that they don't want like gun-control instead of the gun-rights expansion policies and politics of the current conservative/Republican-controlled Georgia state government.

This growing fear of a 'purple' and/or 'blue' Georgia in the not-too-distant future and the growing fears of more moderate/progressive policies on issues like guns is one of the main factors that motivated the Georgia Legislature to act out so demonstratively over an issue like Delta's disassociation with the NRA.

Delta's disassociation with the NRA was interpreted by the outer-suburban, exurban and rural conservatives who currently control Georgia's political structure as another major sign that they may be losing their political, social and cultural domination in a changing state and a changing society.

To the outer-suburban, exurban and rural conservatives who dominate Georgia politics (for the time being), disassociation from the NRA by major corporations like Delta was a disturbing preview of a time where they likely may not and will not hold the same power and political/social/cultural sway in a Georgia with a more diverse and more moderate/progressive electorate that they currently hold and have held in a Georgia with a less-diverse and more conservative electorate.

The outburst over Delta's disassociation from the NRA by Georgia Republican Lt. Governor and gubernatorial frontrunner Casey Cagle was pushback against a changing society that they view as no longer respecting and/or holding in high-esteem the socially conservative gun-oriented rural/exurban lifestyle.

[Iconographer]

Originally Posted by MacInTx

Gosh, this Born 2 Roll person must be a clairvoyant or something to know what all of these "outer-suburban, exurban and rural residents" think and feel.

I rather think he is!