What would it take for Washington DC to vote Republican?

[Cubby]

Numbers don't lie? LOL. Who's going to fall for that line?
Not that I'm saying Pym's vision isn't a little skewed here...not saying that at all...
Main reason for those figures is of course the areas' different settlement history. There simply are large mostly rural areas in the North where there are next to no Blacks.

What is my vision and why is it skewed? I don't understand what you mean.

[minionofmidas]

Numbers don't lie? LOL. Who's going to fall for that line?
Not that I'm saying Pym's vision isn't a little skewed here...not saying that at all...
Main reason for those figures is of course the areas' different settlement history. There simply are large mostly rural areas in the North where there are next to no Blacks.

What is my vision and why is it skewed? I don't understand what you mean.

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There's an old bitter joke..."In the South they don't care if the Negroes live next to them, as long as they don't get uppity. In the North they don't care if the Negroes demand equal rights, as long as they don't live nearby."

[Cubby]

Numbers don't lie? LOL. Who's going to fall for that line?
Not that I'm saying Pym's vision isn't a little skewed here...not saying that at all...
Main reason for those figures is of course the areas' different settlement history. There simply are large mostly rural areas in the North where there are next to no Blacks.

What is my vision and why is it skewed? I don't understand what you mean.

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There's an old bitter joke..."In the South they don't care if the Negroes live next to them, as long as they don't get uppity. In the North they don't care if the Negroes demand equal rights, as long as they don't live nearby."

There's some truth to that.

[Akno21]

The Swann-Blackwell ticket gets an early Christmas present when the Democratic nominee shows up at a Rock the Vote event and, in a desperate ploy to be seen as hip, opens his speech by asking "Wassup, my niggaz?"

That's how a Republican wins DC without a realignment.

Try to imagine John Kerry saying that. I just spent a minute trying, and just could not do it.

[The Duke]

The Swann-Blackwell ticket gets an early Christmas present when the Democratic nominee shows up at a Rock the Vote event and, in a desperate ploy to be seen as hip, opens his speech by asking "Wassup, my niggaz?"

That's how a Republican wins DC without a realignment.

Try to imagine John Kerry saying that. I just spent a minute trying, and just could not do it.

I imagined it, and it made my day.  I would have voted for Kerry if he did that,it was that funny when it happenned in my head.

[AuH2O]

Powell would have beaten Traficant in DC, I imagine.

[jerusalemcar5]

DC is LIBERAL not Democractic.  I disagree with some who say a Bush supporting, anti-liberties, anti-all good Democrat (like Zell Miller) would win over Lincoln Chafee who has some sense.

I'd also like to say the DC isn't run by Democrats. Congress (which is controlled by Republicans) runs DC and gives little time and attention to it.

[Jacobtm]

The more dysfunctional a city's population is, the more heavily Democratic it will vote.

The more bigoted and racist an area is, the more likely it will vote Republican. Also, the least educated states are all Republican.

Really?  Apparently, you are not living in the real world.  There is just as much bigotry in liberal northeastern states as in the south.  New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts all have virtually complete separation of the races, and hostility where they actually meet.  If you can't see that, you are really kidding yourself.  Latte liberals who wax poetically about tolerance and diversity, while living miles away from the nearest non-white person, are in practice just as bigoted as those who are more honest about their views.

Have you ever been to New York City AT ALL? There is no way to be anywhere that city while being "miles away from the nearest non-white person"; you can't even find a place where you're blocks away from the nearest non-white person. The places in NY where you're miles away from non-white people are upstate where it might as well be the south, if it weren't for the snow.

I live in Westchester County, in the Town of Greenburgh. It's a suburb of NYC, and one of the richer and more Liberal/Democratic places in the country. At the 2000 census, the Town of Greenburgh was 72% white, 13% Black, 8% Asian, 9% Latino and 6% other races/mixed races. Personally, I've got a bit of Native American in me.

[adam]

There would have to be no Democratic, Green, Libertarian, Socialist, Independent, Natural Law, Reform, Grassroots, Worker's World, Communist, or Socialist Equality candidates on the ballot.

Under those circumstances, it would probably go something like this.

Republican: 51%
Write-In votes cast for "Democrat": 49%

[Alcon]

There would have to be no Democratic, Green, Libertarian, Socialist, Independent, Natural Law, Reform, Grassroots, Worker's World, Communist, or Socialist Equality candidates on the ballot.

Under those circumstances, it would probably go something like this.

Republican: 51%
Write-In votes cast for "Democrat": 49%

I'm assuming this is a joke, but as we've seen from the 2004 Idaho Senate race, people are lazy as hell about write-ins.

[Nym90]

Let's see, DC is full of government workers, blacks, and is entirely a city. It shouldn't be any surprise that the GOP has no chance in it.

So basically both parties would have to completely switch their positions on the issues.

[Cubby]

Have you ever been to New York City AT ALL? There is no way to be anywhere that city while being "miles away from the nearest non-white person"; you can't even find a place where you're blocks away from the nearest non-white person. The places in NY where you're miles away from non-white people are upstate where it might as well be the south, if it weren't for the snow.

I live in Westchester County, in the Town of Greenburgh. It's a suburb of NYC, and one of the richer and more Liberal/Democratic places in the country. At the 2000 census, the Town of Greenburgh was 72% white, 13% Black, 8% Asian, 9% Latino and 6% other races/mixed races. Personally, I've got a bit of Native American in me.

Don't take Dazzleman so seriously Jacob. When he gets into his rants about how "racist" and horrible the Northeast supposedly is he doesn't pay too much attention to the facts. He loves to bash the region that pays his salary.

[True Democrat]

The more dysfunctional a city's population is, the more heavily Democratic it will vote.

The more bigoted and racist an area is, the more likely it will vote Republican. Also, the least educated states are all Republican.

Really?  Apparently, you are not living in the real world.  There is just as much bigotry in liberal northeastern states as in the south.  New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts all have virtually complete separation of the races, and hostility where they actually meet.  If you can't see that, you are really kidding yourself.  Latte liberals who wax poetically about tolerance and diversity, while living miles away from the nearest non-white person, are in practice just as bigoted as those who are more honest about their views.

Have you ever been to New York City AT ALL? There is no way to be anywhere that city while being "miles away from the nearest non-white person"; you can't even find a place where you're blocks away from the nearest non-white person. The places in NY where you're miles away from non-white people are upstate where it might as well be the south, if it weren't for the snow.

I live in Westchester County, in the Town of Greenburgh. It's a suburb of NYC, and one of the richer and more Liberal/Democratic places in the country. At the 2000 census, the Town of Greenburgh was 72% white, 13% Black, 8% Asian, 9% Latino and 6% other races/mixed races. Personally, I've got a bit of Native American in me.

My relatives live in Greenburgh, in the village of Irvington.

[Jacobtm]

The more dysfunctional a city's population is, the more heavily Democratic it will vote.

The more bigoted and racist an area is, the more likely it will vote Republican. Also, the least educated states are all Republican.

Really?  Apparently, you are not living in the real world.  There is just as much bigotry in liberal northeastern states as in the south.  New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts all have virtually complete separation of the races, and hostility where they actually meet.  If you can't see that, you are really kidding yourself.  Latte liberals who wax poetically about tolerance and diversity, while living miles away from the nearest non-white person, are in practice just as bigoted as those who are more honest about their views.

Have you ever been to New York City AT ALL? There is no way to be anywhere that city while being "miles away from the nearest non-white person"; you can't even find a place where you're blocks away from the nearest non-white person. The places in NY where you're miles away from non-white people are upstate where it might as well be the south, if it weren't for the snow.

I live in Westchester County, in the Town of Greenburgh. It's a suburb of NYC, and one of the richer and more Liberal/Democratic places in the country. At the 2000 census, the Town of Greenburgh was 72% white, 13% Black, 8% Asian, 9% Latino and 6% other races/mixed races. Personally, I've got a bit of Native American in me.

My relatives live in Greenburgh, in the village of Irvington.

No sh**t? I do too, and so does Defarge.

Who're your relatives?

[Smash255]

Part of the issue is also a $$$ issue.  Home values tend to be much higher in the northeast than in the south.  Even in some of the heaviest minority neighborhoods the housing costs are quite high, but tend to be quite a bit lower than housing costs in mostly white neighborhoods.  One neighborhood to the next can have drastic differences in home values in the northeast, the housing value differencial from one area to the next n the south tends to be quite a bit smaller.  Whites tend to make more $$$ than African Americans. 

In other words the housing costs differencials in the south from one area to the next are smaller than the differences in the northeast.  As a result their tends to be more income diversity and more racial diversity in the south than in the northeast.

Also as mentioned by another poster the rural factor, you have a much larger amount of rural southern blacks than rural northeastern blacks

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

It will never happen (unless something really weird happens like a mass exodus of all the liberals--but then it'd be a ghost town).  It's mostly populated by African Americans, and what whites it has, are pretty much liberals.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Reestablish bans on black voting. Since blacks tend to vote for populists, I'd favor this policy(I'd also disenfranchise most of the working class and rural people too. This disenfranchisement is part of a plan to make social conservatives and populists a permanent electoral minority. Race is NOT an issue that I care about, its ensuring that people with my views more or less have a lock on political power)

[Rin-chan]

A nuclear bomb destroying the entire city (except everything essential to our government) and then only Republicans moving in.

Rin-chan

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

A nuclear bomb destroying the entire city (except everything essential to our government) and then only Republicans moving in.

Rin-chan

My plan is actualyl workable.

[adam]

Massive voter fraud.

[Boris]

Maybe an Abe Lincoln/Dwight Eisenhower GOP ticket vs. a James Buchanan/Walter Mondale Dem ticket.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Have you ever been to New York City AT ALL? There is no way to be anywhere that city while being "miles away from the nearest non-white person"; you can't even find a place where you're blocks away from the nearest non-white person. The places in NY where you're miles away from non-white people are upstate where it might as well be the south, if it weren't for the snow.

I live in Westchester County, in the Town of Greenburgh. It's a suburb of NYC, and one of the richer and more Liberal/Democratic places in the country. At the 2000 census, the Town of Greenburgh was 72% white, 13% Black, 8% Asian, 9% Latino and 6% other races/mixed races. Personally, I've got a bit of Native American in me.

Don't take Dazzleman so seriously Jacob. When he gets into his rants about how "racist" and horrible the Northeast supposedly is he doesn't pay too much attention to the facts. He loves to bash the region that pays his salary.

Pretty much true. I've never been to NYC, but even in Minneapolis, which is over 60% white, the only time I've ever been in an area with only white people is when I'm seeing bands at the Triple Rock, since basically only white kids listen to my type of music. Plus that's right in the middle of a Somali neighborhood, walk outside and you'd have a tough time finding a white person who wasn't there for the show.