Anonymous wrote:Political diversity in the DC area?

Definitely Tacoma Park!

You’ve got regular dems, leftist dems, socialist dems, socialists, communists, anarchists and nihilists - all living together in disharmony!

^^^ absolutely nails it ^^^

N Arlington. No one talks about it.

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Anonymous wrote:Crofton area and most of AA county are pretty mixed.

But we live in bethesda and have friends who are Republicans. It’s fine so long as they aren’t Trump voters. Fiscal conservatives are fine and there’s lots of military folks who can be hawkish. But if you’re voting for Trumo because you don’t like Muslims or Mexicans or you think there are good people on both sides of a Nazi March or am armed invasion of Congress….then people aren’t going to want you at their backyard BBQ.

Posts like these bother me because they imply there was a time when Republicans were less racist and Trump is an anomaly. Reagan began his campaign near the site of a Freedom Marchers execution and ranted about states rights, George Bush played the Willie Horton card and his son sat idly by while thousands of black people drowned in New Orleans. The difference between these presidents and Trump is that these presidents didn’t have such a cache with working class white people like Trump does, which is the real reason Trumpsters wouldn’t be invited to these hypothetical, snooty Bethesda barbecues.

I read that as “hypocritical” Bethesda barbecues. Rich white liberals swear they are so much better than those racist republicans but always seem to accidentally find themselves in the whitest areas.

+1000. My most liberal friends send their kids to private school and spend all their free time at the Chevy Chase Club. They don’t see any irony in their choices.

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Anonymous wrote:Crofton area and most of AA county are pretty mixed.

But we live in bethesda and have friends who are Republicans. It’s fine so long as they aren’t Trump voters. Fiscal conservatives are fine and there’s lots of military folks who can be hawkish. But if you’re voting for Trumo because you don’t like Muslims or Mexicans or you think there are good people on both sides of a Nazi March or am armed invasion of Congress….then people aren’t going to want you at their backyard BBQ.

Posts like these bother me because they imply there was a time when Republicans were less racist and Trump is an anomaly. Reagan began his campaign near the site of a Freedom Marchers execution and ranted about states rights, George Bush played the Willie Horton card and his son sat idly by while thousands of black people drowned in New Orleans. The difference between these presidents and Trump is that these presidents didn’t have such a cache with working class white people like Trump does, which is the real reason Trumpsters wouldn’t be invited to these hypothetical, snooty Bethesda barbecues.

I read that as “hypocritical” Bethesda barbecues. Rich white liberals swear they are so much better than those racist republicans but always seem to accidentally find themselves in the whitest areas.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Crofton area and most of AA county are pretty mixed.

But we live in bethesda and have friends who are Republicans. It’s fine so long as they aren’t Trump voters. Fiscal conservatives are fine and there’s lots of military folks who can be hawkish. But if you’re voting for Trumo because you don’t like Muslims or Mexicans or you think there are good people on both sides of a Nazi March or am armed invasion of Congress….then people aren’t going to want you at their backyard BBQ.

Posts like these bother me because they imply there was a time when Republicans were less racist and Trump is an anomaly. Reagan began his campaign near the site of a Freedom Marchers execution and ranted about states rights, George Bush played the Willie Horton card and his son sat idly by while thousands of black people drowned in New Orleans. The difference between these presidents and Trump is that these presidents didn’t have such a cache with working class white people like Trump does, which is the real reason Trumpsters wouldn’t be invited to these hypothetical, snooty Bethesda barbecues.

State rights are racism? Who knew.

Lee Atwater knew.

“The late, legendarily brutal campaign consultant Lee Atwater explains how Republicans can win the vote of racists without sounding racist themselves:

You start out in 1954 by saying, “N*****, n*****, n*****.” By 1968 you can’t say “n*****”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N*****, n*****.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Crofton area and most of AA county are pretty mixed.

But we live in bethesda and have friends who are Republicans. It’s fine so long as they aren’t Trump voters. Fiscal conservatives are fine and there’s lots of military folks who can be hawkish. But if you’re voting for Trumo because you don’t like Muslims or Mexicans or you think there are good people on both sides of a Nazi March or am armed invasion of Congress….then people aren’t going to want you at their backyard BBQ.

Posts like these bother me because they imply there was a time when Republicans were less racist and Trump is an anomaly. Reagan began his campaign near the site of a Freedom Marchers execution and ranted about states rights, George Bush played the Willie Horton card and his son sat idly by while thousands of black people drowned in New Orleans. The difference between these presidents and Trump is that these presidents didn’t have such a cache with working class white people like Trump does, which is the real reason Trumpsters wouldn’t be invited to these hypothetical, snooty Bethesda barbecues.

State rights are racism? Who knew.

I think what the pp is implying is that most Republican policies are not really based on any internal consistency but rather in the service of a larger goal: placating racist voters or serving the interests of mega rich donors. If you feel this is incorrect please let us know how.

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Anonymous wrote:Crofton area and most of AA county are pretty mixed.

But we live in bethesda and have friends who are Republicans. It’s fine so long as they aren’t Trump voters. Fiscal conservatives are fine and there’s lots of military folks who can be hawkish. But if you’re voting for Trumo because you don’t like Muslims or Mexicans or you think there are good people on both sides of a Nazi March or am armed invasion of Congress….then people aren’t going to want you at their backyard BBQ.

Posts like these bother me because they imply there was a time when Republicans were less racist and Trump is an anomaly. Reagan began his campaign near the site of a Freedom Marchers execution and ranted about states rights, George Bush played the Willie Horton card and his son sat idly by while thousands of black people drowned in New Orleans. The difference between these presidents and Trump is that these presidents didn’t have such a cache with working class white people like Trump does, which is the real reason Trumpsters wouldn’t be invited to these hypothetical, snooty Bethesda barbecues.

State rights are racism? Who knew.

Anonymous wrote:I am conserve leaning independent in Kensington. South Kensington is more balanced than other parts of MoCo. Outer MoCo is more balanced than inner MoCo. I think Fairfax generally more balanced than MoCo.

Problem is not people who happen to be liberal but a certain style of obnoxious progressive. I assume hatdcore MAGA people are just as obnoxious but in DC inside the beltway its the progressives that feel like they have the cultural space to be super annoying. In Sugarland, TX its probably the inverse.

My ideal would be somewhere purple but I am here for work and family. It is what it is. I feel your pain OP.

Bingo.

There is an unwritten assumption in this thread that the subject is white neighborhoods that OP should look for. I bet you would find the average resident of a SFH off of Randolph Road in Wheaton to be tremendously socially conservative and religious compared to the close-minded UMC white people OP is supposedly referring to. Ditto a lot of residents of Fort Washington, Herndon, Germantown, etc. The reality is is that the most annoying, politically obsessed people in this area are UMC white people and you should probably avoid them if you don’t want to be harangued about politics all day.

This is a uniquely DC area phenomenon. The only place with as many hive-minded, conformist white people is probably Boston. There is plenty of political diversity in pockets of Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York.

Anonymous wrote:Crofton area and most of AA county are pretty mixed.

But we live in bethesda and have friends who are Republicans. It’s fine so long as they aren’t Trump voters. Fiscal conservatives are fine and there’s lots of military folks who can be hawkish. But if you’re voting for Trumo because you don’t like Muslims or Mexicans or you think there are good people on both sides of a Nazi March or am armed invasion of Congress….then people aren’t going to want you at their backyard BBQ.

Posts like these bother me because they imply there was a time when Republicans were less racist and Trump is an anomaly. Reagan began his campaign near the site of a Freedom Marchers execution and ranted about states rights, George Bush played the Willie Horton card and his son sat idly by while thousands of black people drowned in New Orleans. The difference between these presidents and Trump is that these presidents didn’t have such a cache with working class white people like Trump does, which is the real reason Trumpsters wouldn’t be invited to these hypothetical, snooty Bethesda barbecues.

Great Falls. Pretty even split.