[lbo-talk] New Yorkers

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>It sounds as if Yoshie has some kind of weirdly inverted version of 
>a white nativist's view of the "real America," in which the white 
>native-born are the rule and the nonwhite, non-native born (and 
>quirky white natives) are the exception. But she likes the 
>exception, and the nativist prefers the rule. Both are neither 
>accurate nor helpful.
>
>Doug

It's not the matter of likes and dislikes.  It's the question about 
social facts, which we can determine if we have data divided by race 
and geography.  Were whites in New York City really more against the 
war on Afghanistan than whites in cities in Middle America?  Are the 
former generally more progressive than the latter?  For all we know, 
even the opposite might be the case, given the concentration of the 
filthy rich in New York, which makes it one of the most unequal 
cities in the most unequal state: "In Andrew Beveridge's (1996) 
dismal contrast, except for a former leper colony in Hawaii, 
Manhattan  was the most unequal county in the United States.  In 
1990, Manhattan had the same level of income inequality as Guatemala. 
Average family income in the borough's top quintile ($174,486) was 32 
times greater than the bottom quintile ($5,435), more than double the 
ratio for the US as a whole.  In Mollenkopf and Castells's (1992) 
portrait, New York City is polarized  between a cohesive core of 
professionals in the advanced corporate services and a disorganized 
periphery fragmented by race, ethnicity, gender, occupation and 
industry location" (Richard Child Hil and June Woo Kim, "Global 
Cities and Developmental States: New York, Tokyo, Seoul," 
<http://www.msu.edu/user/hillrr/urbstudtxt.htm>); and "overall, New 
York has the most unequal distribution of income in the United States 
and that the situation in the Empire State has gotten much worse over 
the last two decades" (Fiscal Policy Institute, "Pulling Apart in New 
York: An Analysis of Income Trends in New York State and New York 
City," <http://www.fiscalpolicy.org/pullingapart.htm>).  White New 
York may be more conservative than white Middle America, and more of 
promising white folks live in Middle America than in New York.
-- 
Yoshie

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