[lbo-talk] New Yorkers: Self-Defeating Snobbery

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Apr 22 09:04:17 PDT 2004


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>Kerry supporters' self-defeating snobbery toward the mythical Middle
>America and the South (which overlap in their imagination)

At 6:17 PM -0400 4/21/04, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> My hypothesis is that Blacks, the foreign born, and native-born
>Americans who have foreign-born parents were on the average much
>less in favor of bombing Afghanistan in irrational response to the
>9/11 terrorists, none of whom was an Afghan, than native-born whites
>who have lost all subjective bonds with their ancestral lands a long
>time ago. If a pollster compared native-born white opinions in New
>York City and the heartland, it is possible that there was little
>geographic difference.

At 7:07 PM -0400 4/21/04, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>The hypothesis is that white New Yorkers may have more in common
>with white Middle Americans than with Black New Yorkers,
>foreign-born New Yorkers (like Masuda Sultan, an Afghan-born New
>Yorker featured in the documentary _Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to
>Ground Zero_ <http://tv.oneworld.net/tapestry?story=358>), and
>native-born New Yorkers with foreign-born parents.



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