So what do we think about the New Yorker article with the Cheverly moms?
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Anonymous
Big Government conservatives who want to subsidize child birth, incentivize marriage, enact school choice, and force corporations to be more family-friendly (ie, make it easier to be a working parent - part time, paid leave, etc) while also outlawing abortion. |
Anonymous
It was a very credulous article for the New Yorker. Seemed more like Vanity Fair level coverage. I think an article on “realignment conservatives” and the evolution of the pro life movement towards the pro natalist movement could be interesting but it needs more than one-off unsupportable claims about how “we all love babies! at Heritage!” is somehow a) true and b) a sea change. |
Anonymous
I would say it’s the figleaf for non-Libertarian pro-life conservatives freaked out by the reality of abortion bans. I don’t think they actually want to make any of that happen except school choice and marriage. |
Anonymous
The decription in this article isn’t a typical representation of Cheverly moms, political leanings, or Cheverly as a whole. Cheverly’s affordability, plus it’s proximity to the Hill, plus Capitol Hill Baptist Church, has helped increase the number of conservatives and staffers in town. Not dissimilar to how historic Hyattsville’s close proximity to Catholic University and USCCB helped bring that area a more conservative Catholic population. None of those people are household names to the overwhelming majority of Cheverly residents. Frankly, this crop of conservatives are all quite clicky, though generally, lovely neighbors. I also fail to see how being a highly educated working mom is considered counterculture in any large metro areas, especially D.C. Even for those in conservative circles. The quote about Hill staffers jockeying for Cheverly Pool membership was interesting. Neither Hill staffers nor Hill residents get preferential treatment. If conservative Hill staffers have been jockeying the pool board for membership, the pool board Membership Director and President might have some explaining to do. |
Anonymous
| Why would any conservative person live in PG county, of all places? |
Anonymous
Yup. Because it’s a non issue at the federal level. Go talk to your governor |
Anonymous
Primarily for the affordability and proximity. They can afford buy a house in decent towns close to DC where one spouse (mostly husband) works and can makes a decent living. It affords them the ability to have many children, cared for by the other, stay at home parent. They’re more likely to homeschool, so the public schools aren’t a worry to them. |
Anonymous
No. It’s not a non issue. It should be a federal right. Moving it back to the states only is only meant as a restriction tool against women’s healthcare rights, but you already know that and prefer it like that. |
Anonymous
| All I know is that pretty much all of Trump's cabinet picks snd himself have had affairs and divorces. Count me out if these are the family values the party wants to support. |
Anonymous
They move to the few PG towns that already have a decent enough sized white population. |
Anonymous
It’s a nonissue in the state of Maryland where they live there are no legal restrictions on abortion up until childbirth. |
Anonymous
And had sex with children |
Anonymous
Imagine caring about all women and not just the ones in your state. Wow the conservatives have no idea what it means to be conservative. |
Anonymous
| Didn't Joshua and Anna Duggar live in PG? I mean, this is not new. |
Anonymous
No they didn’t. The MD suburbs historically were settled by religious minority groups while the Virginia suburbs were predominantly Episcopal/Anglican Protestant. Bethesda has a strong historic association with Quakers, Catholics, and more recently Jews, Takoma Park with Seventh Day Adventists, Hyattsville with Catholics and Cheverly with Baptists. |