[lbo-talk] Sean Wilentz: Blue Cities vs. Red Surrounds

Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
Thu Nov 11 21:46:56 PST 2004


----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Pollak" <mpollak at panix.com>

[I wonder if there would be a way to map this in a way that would be striking and clear. Perhaps by county?]

Los Angeles Times

November 7, 2004

COMMENTARY

Hicks Nixed Slicks' Pick

By Sean Wilentz

Sean Wilentz is a professor of history at PrincetonUniversity.

[snip]

By perpetuating the easy impression of a nation divided into coastal

liberals and heartland conservatives, reporters and commentators are

misleading themselves and their audiences about the actual political

state of the Union. Without realizing it, they are also advancing the

picture of the nation advanced by the GOP culture warriors, feeding

the despair and paranoia of coastal liberals and writing off millions

of Americans in every part of the country.

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Ok but what does it mean to say there's an actual political state of the Union? Don't we have serious plurality of perspectives underdetermination/overdetermination problem[s]? Blast the problem of social kinds.



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