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The zeitgeist in America has moved so far left that admitting to being conservative is guaranteed to bring one a negative image. The general consensus in young America is voting Republican means you are backwards, racist, homophobe, anti-Science, or just plain unenlightened. It hasn't always been like this. When was the last time it was popular to be a Republican or at least acceptable?
Huh? Maybe in Portland or San Francisco, but the vast majority of the country doesn't care if you're Republican. Even in parts of my state in the Northeast US, liberal is a dirty word
The zeitgeist in America has moved so far left that admitting to being conservative is guaranteed to bring one a negative image. The general consensus in young America is voting Republican means you are backwards, racist, homophobe, anti-Science, or just plain unenlightened. It hasn't always been like this. When was the last time it was popular to be a Republican or at least acceptable?
I guess I may be too old but I believe that it is acceptable today. Maybe we didn't steal an election but then maybe we will the next time.
The zeitgeist in America has moved so far left that admitting to being conservative is guaranteed to bring one a negative image. The general consensus in young America is voting Republican means you are backwards, racist, homophobe, anti-Science, or just plain unenlightened. It hasn't always been like this. When was the last time it was popular to be a Republican or at least acceptable?
The zeitgeist in America has moved so far left that admitting to being conservative is guaranteed to bring one a negative image. The general consensus in young America is voting Republican means you are backwards, racist, homophobe, anti-Science, or just plain unenlightened. It hasn't always been like this. When was the last time it was popular to be a Republican or at least acceptable?
You reached the height of popularity during the Reagan Administration. It's been downhill from there, especially when the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity, and O'Reilly became some of your most popular spokespeople.
Take heart there still plenty of places in America where being a Republican is popular like:
Texas
Oklahoma
Alabama
Mississippi
South Carolina
Tennessee
Kentucky
Kansas
Nebraska
South Dakota
North Dakota
Idaho
Wyoming
Utah
Arizona
Georgia
OP and Jazzy really live in liberal bubbles. Your ideology is not popular outside of major urban centers even in the Northeast. In my area Harrisburg is a blue dot in a sea of red, and that's only because it's the state capital; where, naturally, public sector unions dominate
It hasn't always been like this. When was the last time it was popular to be a Republican or at least acceptable?
You do know that in much of this country, publicly admitting to voting Democratic is something akin to admitting you collect your toenail clippings in a big jar under your sink? I think it cuts both ways.
Partisanship is about the fate of a nation - it's serious stuff, and we have no business expecting it not to cause high feelings. The strength of a nation's constitution is not in how well it suppresses the heat of partisan quarrels, but how well it contains that heat and averts an inferno. It has to be said that the American constitution has failed once to be flame-proof - we can only hope it won't ignite in future.
OP and Jazzy really live in liberal bubbles. Your ideology is not popular outside of major urban centers even in the Northeast. In my area Harrisburg is a blue dot in a sea of red, and that's only because it's the state capital; where, naturally, public sector unions dominate
The liberal bubbles you talk about just about are every major large population center in the United States.
The Republican Party is basically the party of rural America.
That's bad news for Republicans in a country that is becoming more urbanized and more racially diverse.
We're not the only ones that have pointed to the increasingly important electoral role of cities. In their prescient 2004 book The Emerging Democratic Majority, John Judis and Ruy Teixeira argued that a new Democratic majority would be centered in both an increasingly diverse electorate and the new knowledge- and service-based economies of what they dubbed urban "ideopolises." Several years ago, Tom Davis, the former Republican congressman from Northern Virginia, speculated that Republicans were becoming more vulnerable in urban centers because, as he put it, economic development works, meaning as communities become more developed they attract more highly educated and cosmopolitan populations that tend to vote Democratic. National Journal's Ronald Brownstein has shown how creative class counties have trended increasingly Democratic over the past couple of decades.
As Dave Troy puts it, the key factor in this year's election is even simpler — it's all about density. Troy, a founder of several software companies, recently plotted the county-level election results against population density (see the graph below). His conclusion was striking: "98% of the 50 most dense counties voted Obama. 98% of the 50 least dense counties voted for Romney."
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