Red State, Blue City: How the Urban-Rural Divide is Splitting America

[minionofmidas]

Suburban - Swing

NOT IN THE SOUTH.

Virginia?
Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince Willliam, Henrico?

They're blue and plus you can hardly call them suburbs anymore.

This is Loudoun County

The problem with the argument is rather that NoVa is not Southern anymore. Certainly less Southern than Maryland (American Whites tend to ignore that because they mean Southern White when they say Southern.)

[minionofmidas]

I think it's more that the educated rich in Central London and Paris and Scandinavia are still secure in the instinctive knowledge that they own the country and the government, and that when government becomes smaller, the parts of it that they use will never be affected.

[minionofmidas]

I think it's more that the educated rich in Central London and Paris and Scandinavia are still secure in the instinctive knowledge that they own the country and the government, and that when government becomes smaller, the parts of it that they use will never be affected.

The "educated rich" in the US and Canada have no such sense of security?

Certainly less of it in the US than in Germany or Canada, and less of it there than in France or Britain. Yes, I would think so.
It's of course related to the filthy rich of the US being a much less homogeneous bloc - the Paris and London elites are incredibly dominant. New York elites are under threat from, say, Dallas or Los Angeles elites with very different interests in a way that would be quite unfathomable in Chelsea and Tunbridge Wells.

[minionofmidas]

Bottom line, all this implies something positive about America and something negative about the Democratic Party (compared to other major left-of-centre parties).

[minionofmidas]

(especially the last of the three; the first two are usually couched as judgments about the physical environment, although of course preference between smog and manure is pretty subjective).

I'll take either over cologne.