On Feb 3, 2010, at 10:54 PM, brad bauerly wrote:
> Why not? Why would they listen to people who disparage them?
You think the reason that radical ideas aren't popular is that HL Mencken made fun of hicks?
>> You're projecting and imputing wildly here. It's not a matter of
>> fear and contempt or of writing people off. I spend considerable
>> time in places like New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and Oklahoma because
>> I know people there. Going there also gives me an awareness of
>> particulars that your generalizations don't incorporate. So my
>> earlier post was sent in agreement with people pointing out that you
>> and others frequently say things about the U.S. that don't reflect a
>> good knowledge of what's happening on the ground here.
>
> Well, Arizona and New Mexico are both Democratic states, which isn't
> much
> but seems to be the metrix by which people here are debating this.
> I have
> lived in both, as well as in Montana. After Montana we moved to
> Boston,
> which I would consider the most conservative place that I ever
> lived. So
> much for the density = progressive nonsense.
If you're accepting, for argument, that D=progressive, then the correlation with density is solid, your personal experience aside.