Quote from Pa(b)st Prime:
I admit I'm skewed because I live in two metropolitan areas where "Joe Sixpack" is relatively affluent. Rural areas around Chicago too are booming via farm/grain prices. So by my limited experience Joe is drinking Beck's and the PBR Joe Sixpack is now Jose or Tyrone. More complicated yet, where "Joe" is still alive he's a social conservative.
One of the wild stats political scientists and sociologists don't like to mention is white America is more Republican than in any prior time in history.Think about it. It's inconceivable that an FDR would be elected today with the same all white electorate as the 1930's. An entire generation of white America came to reject socialistic big government spending policies. Today liberals are elected on the backs of minorities. Bush received over 60% of the 2004 white vote. Why? Because most whites-even the old school union whites-are increasingly investor class. Hence to much of "white America" taxes are becoming nothing more than wealth redistribution to minorities both domestically and globally.
America's cities tell the tale. How many white, property tax paying families are willing to send their kids to gang ridden schools? Those folks boogie to the 'burbs and then all of a sudden a city one third white struggles to fund tution for thousands of poor minority kids. Education costs are the welfare issue of tomorrow. There just isn't enough elasticity in this economy to make it work any longer. The takers out weigh the givers. Hence deficits. I'm steadfast that the Federal model is not just broke but totaled. I honestly believe there will be inflation of such magnitude that secession is inevitable. It may come quickly. Know what? It'll be a BLESSING. If a Chicago or L.A. could stop paying for Israel's defense and Taiwan's defense and Georgia's defense and instead use it's formally D.C. designated wealth to pay for it's own schools and under funded pension liabilities we'll again be in boom times. After one chapter is finished another starts. I see Palin as the only secession minded realist in America......
