On 2010-02-04, at 11:52 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Feb 4, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Marv Gandall wrote:
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>> I wouldn't have thought this was controversial. Look at the electoral map in any advanced capitalist country and it's pretty clear that liberal and socialist parties have historically drawn their strength from the working class in the large cities while parties on the right have typically appealed to more conservative farmers, small town merchants and bankers, and their employees. I recall posting 2008 election return data to the list some time back showing this to be the case, with few exceptions, even in those states where the Republicans have been the stronger party. The influx of successive generations of immigrant workers into the cities has always deepened this cleavage.
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> I don't know about anyplace else, but there's an additional issue with the U.S. (which James also finds deeply annoying): a lot of people move to thinly populated areas because they don't like being around people not like themselves. That correlates with conservative politics.
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Isn't there similar white movement in the UK and Europe, not necessarily to more thinly populated areas in these high density countries, in response to the growing population of Muslims and other immigrants from Africa, the Carribean, and elsewhere?