There aren’t many WASPs left. They stopped having children a few generations ago.

Anonymous wrote:It's always fascinating how Democrats are utterly obsessed with other people's racial and ethnic makeup.

Really Mr Tiki Torch?

I recently picked up a book and the guy wrote about his pandemic lockdown experience spent at a huge vacation house being “white privilege”.

No bro, that is “rich privilege”. Most white people do not live that way. But I can see how certain whites in certain bubbles think all of their privilege is due to being white, because they do not know other “kinds” of white people. I’ve encountered this over and over again since going to college, and I hate it.

I'm reminded of the following quote from Interstellar:

"Evolution has yet to transcend that simple barrier. We can care deeply - selflessly - about those we know, but that empathy rarely extends beyond our line of sight."

The more or less sums up humanity and can explain a lot about the contradictions of this election.

https://www.prri.org/press-release/prri-survey-friendship-networks-of-white-americans-continue-to-be-90-white/

“The challenging news is that, despite some diversification since 2013, Americans’ close friendship networks remain predominantly homogeneous and insular—composed of people of the same religious, racial or ethnic, or partisan background. But the impact of just one person of a different background is profound, significantly increasing support for the ideals of a multiracial, multi-religious democracy,” said Robert P. Jones, Ph.D., PRRI founder and CEO. “In a time of unprecedented demographic and cultural change, it is clear that we need more institutions helping us bridge the divides.”

The composition and homogeneity of Americans’ friendship networks is strongly correlated with their views on questions about American identity, pluralism, Christian nationalism, and the changing demographics of the country.

The homogeneity of white Americans’ friendship networks varies by political and religious affiliation and age. Nearly three in four white Republicans (73%) report all-white friendship networks, compared to 66% of white independents and 66% of white Democrats. White Americans between the ages of 18–29 are notably less likely than older age groups to report all-white friendship networks (54%, compared to two-thirds or more among all other age groups).

White Christian groups, including white evangelical Protestants (71%), white mainline Protestants (71%), and white Catholics (73%), are more likely to report all-white friendship networks than white Americans who belong to non-Christian religions (62%) or are religiously unaffiliated (57%). However, there is no significant variation in the racial homogeneity of white Americans’ friendship networks based on education levels (college, 68%; non-college, 66%)."

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Anonymous wrote:The most noticeable observation of MAGA types I know is that they tend to have very, very few ethnically and/or culturally different friends, if any. Maybe some acquaintances but not true friends.

They ironically complain that liberals live in a bubble though.

The irony is that you just described your own tiny bubble and are extrapolating it onto millions of people.

100% it is so disheartening that the first pp actually believes that nonsense

It is true though, most MAGAs live in rural and less culturally diverse areas. You don't find many in cities where you are more likely to encounter people of different backgrounds.

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Anonymous wrote:The most noticeable observation of MAGA types I know is that they tend to have very, very few ethnically and/or culturally different friends, if any. Maybe some acquaintances but not true friends.

They ironically complain that liberals live in a bubble though.

The irony is that you just described your own tiny bubble and are extrapolating it onto millions of people.

100% it is so disheartening that the first pp actually believes that nonsense

It's always fascinating how Democrats are utterly obsessed with other people's racial and ethnic makeup.

Anonymous wrote:The most noticeable observation of MAGA types I know is that they tend to have very, very few ethnically and/or culturally different friends, if any. Maybe some acquaintances but not true friends.

They ironically complain that liberals live in a bubble though.

The irony is that you just described your own tiny bubble and are extrapolating it onto millions of people.

The most noticeable observation of MAGA types I know is that they tend to have very, very few ethnically and/or culturally different friends, if any. Maybe some acquaintances but not true friends.

They ironically complain that liberals live in a bubble though.

Agree with this. The best thing that could happen for America would be mandatory national service for 18-20 yo. where everyone is scrambled up and living with people totally different from them. That was one of the under-appreciated effects of WWII. Men who had previously only lived in their particular ethnic enclave were suddenly exposed to the rest of the country.

Anonymous wrote:A prescient thread

Firmly proven this week

Indeed and it is really interesting.

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Anonymous wrote:I think some of you are confused on the A of WASP. Anglo-Saxon. Descendants of original British colonialism. That doesn't include Alabamans of Scotch-Irish descent, Midwesterners of German and Scandinavian descent.

Is Trump WASP? German dad, Anglo mother

Ironically Trump's father's side is more Anglo than his mother's side.

Anonymous wrote:The Italians in NY/NJ have resisted the D trend of suburbia. Nassau, Suffolk, Bergen etc. should be 10 points more D than they actually are. The difference seems to be the Italian vote.

+1

NJ native w/both Italian and DAR roots.

Many Italians are crazy mofos.

Trump did surprisingly well in Long Island and New Jersey.