I find it remarkable that all races and nationalities on earth are represented in the US, unlike any other country on earth and tens of thousands people from all over the world standing at the US borders begging to be let in.
We cannot even process everybody fast enough.
Are you per chance Russian who are exterminating Ukrainians? Or are you Hamas, exterminating Jews? Or extremist Muslim exterminating all atheists?
In this case, we are clearly talking about politically mixed populations.
In many counties, Magas conspiracy theorists and bible literalists live side by side with liberals.
And even if the county is mainly one sided, the neighbouring county is on the other side.
To separate the population is impossible except if you massively move millions of people.
And in fact, if you look from a economic and cultural point of view, or in their daily life, each needs the other ones.
Incidentally, recent studies show that a majority of women are liberal, with a minority of men.
And, last, even if separation was done, many people who would have chosen to live on one side for ideological reasons would be disappointed very fast.
For instance, industrial workers or farm hands having chosen to live in ultra conservative territories would not be happy when going on strike, they would be taught that strikes are not allowed and so on.
People disagree. Sometimes openly. I don’t see anything in this evidence that looks like a coup. Everything that was done used the laws and procedures laid out with situations like this in mind.
Sam Harris defined this mentality on a podcast I heard today. It’s taking one thing a person said and sticking that as THE thing that person thinks, says, is all about, forever. It is disconnected from how the world works. It’s taking video and saying that’s reality.
That’s quite the stereotype and very not true. You know why? I’m an older married (for worse or better) woman and I’m not at all conservative. Never have been. I’m also not necessarily in the minority. You really do love stereotypes. I also still read MS magazine, read Jackie Collins, adore Star Trek, admire Marina Sirtis (who currently won’t come to any state that doesn’t allow abortion) and Gates McFadden (very liberal) and Michelle Herd. Hanging with Michelle is like hanging with a sister. Wish I was married to Jonathan Frakes or Michael Dorn or Robert Beltran. Have biracial adult children, one of whom is a they/them and polyamorous… And if MS magazine still had the section of “Thump on the Head” you’d be the poster boy.
I can see how saying they are a problem is a high-level assessment and evidence can be quickly gathered. Which is a nice way of me saying it’s an easy answer. Too easy. When states tried to be monolithic, tried to enforce a religion on its population, forced everyone into conscription, used bad logic (often with theology) to convince their people that the ones across the border were wrong, dangerous, and deserved to die, what happened was, eventually some of that population used their minds and went and had experiences in other parts of the world, and found out their leaders were lying or otherwise wrong.
If we accepted this argument that mixing is bad and even came up with treaties to sort the populations out, that history would repeat itself. The monolithic state can control violence, it might even feed its people better than a less organized neighbor, but it also lacks ways to listen to and vet new ideas, like, IDK, that slavery is bad. Just like a monoculture in farming or nature, it lacks resistance to infection.
I’ll trade some chaos, and a little personal discomfort in seeing people around that are not like me, for the generation of ideas, the potential of many minds vs the comfort of a few.
Since 1949, there has been a Democratic advantage in the average performance of key macroeconomic indicators measuring economic health, including:
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth
Job growth
Unemployment rate
Growth in inflation-adjusted wages
Growth of market-based incomes per capita
Inflation
Interest rates
This Democratic advantage is across the board in all variables we measure but strongest in private-sector outcomes—notably, business investment, job growth, and the growth of market-based incomes.
Household income growth (adjusted for inflation) was faster on average and far more equal during Democratic administrations, and the Democratic advantage shows up for every group.
Pew Research is only one study and most of it is self-reporting studies. Not sure if we really can put 100% trust in a single group study. There needs to be more studies done on such a subject.
Interesting. I’m guessing you’ve never been in an interracial relationship or many interracial relationships? I’ve been in a few and they were not different than dating a white man. Maybe it’s a case of Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. Now there’s an issue.
I’m sure he hasn’t. He’s also suffering from selective awareness of history, when we lived in seperate countries and went over and pillaged each other.