GasBandit
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Iranian Revolutionary Guard fires warning shots, boards US cargo ship in Strait of Hormuz. No US citizens on board, however. USS Farragut enroute.
Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats
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The NFL has decided it would rather lose its tax exempt status than disclose executive pay levels.[DOUBLEPOST=1430242188,1430242169][/DOUBLEPOST]
It's registered in the Marshall Islands, which is US Territory.
. . . I knew I should have checked that possibility. Doh![DOUBLEPOST=1430242560,1430242268][/DOUBLEPOST]The NFL doesn't need tax exempt status. They'll get around them dirty taxes one way or another. Just get some lawyers to deflate their . . . uh, umm . . . Dammit I don't have a good way to end this joke.
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Turns out the Midwest is even more racist than the South.
This map was created using data from a new study published in PLOS ONE. According to The Washington Post,
Via Wonkblog
This map was created using data from a new study published in PLOS ONE. According to The Washington Post,
The paper introduces a novel but makes-tons-of-sense-when-you-think-about-it method for measuring the incidence of racist attitudes: Google search data. The methodology comes from data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz. He’s used it before to measure the effect of racist attitudes onBarack Obama’s electoral prospects.
Via Wonkblog
Huh? Based on what? The traditional "Midwest" is mostly less than average or much less than average. The South is more or far more than average.
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Uh, based on the graphic I just posted, and the story about the study from which the graphic came, which was listed right under it.
The triangle that runs from Michigan to NYC to the bottom of WVA is bright crimson. Ohio, PA, and West Virginia sure seem to hate black people.
Most of that isn't Midwest. PA and WV certainly aren't. Almost all of that area you're citing is the Appalachias from the "Pennsyltucky" portion of PA, through WV and on south. Redneck country through and through.
Well maybe you should leave your stereotypes at home!
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Ah, I might not be up on what exactly constitutes the Midwest then. I had thought it was everything west of NJ and east of Chicago, but the images I find on google seem to generally think it goes from Ohio to the Dakotas. However a lot of those maps also include PA/WV, but also include states I'd call "Great Plains" and not Midwestern.
But you also get "redneck" wrong, that's Alabama. In the appalachians, they're hillbillies.
I would usually think of the Midwest as Big 10 country, not counting Penn State.
And call 'em hillbillies, call 'em rednecks, I call it No Fucking Surprise There.
Eh, I dunno. In Flanders, it's the city folk
) don't want to associate with. Western Flanders and Limburg are considered the "polite", "warm", "inviting" parts, where-as the center - Antwerp and Brussels - are considered arrogant snobs. Of course, the fact that Antwerp proudly proclaims itself "the only city in the world" and lists the rest of the country as "parking lot" doesn't help the stereotype.
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That's kind of how it works, here, too. Residents of New York, LA, and Chicago pretend those are the only cities and the rest of the nation is called "Flyover Country" (as in, it's the barren, empty nothing you fly over on your way to the important places)... and those of us living in that godforsaken wasteland likewise consider them thar city folk to be effete snobs out of touch with reality.Eh, I dunno. In Flanders, it's the city folkwethey (I'm one of the city folk
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As in, the amount of black people not living there?
I have never, in the 30 years of my existence, heard ANYONE utter the word "Successful and Attractive African American" in Ohio. Ever. But that might be because I live so close to Columbus and the cities aren't "dueling bangos, thump your bible" territory.
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Or it could just be that how one thinks doesn't necessarily have to match how one speaks.
Bingo.
There is a running joke - "North of 64 (the state highway that runs through my town), South of Mason-Dixon"
there are far less black people living west of the Mississippi River since no white people physically took them and forced them to live there
also I'm really surprised Boston is dark blue
also I'm really surprised Boston is dark blue
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I'm not sure which part you're gif-ing, I didn't think it was a controversial statement that there are large black populations in the rural southern areas where they were enslaved. That's just like. The fact? Same reason there are large Native American populations in Oklahoma and the Big Sky region
I agree with you on the Boston part anyway.
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Guess we can tell all the black people living in Dallas, Houston, Chicago, LA etc that they don't exist because white people didn't take them there.
i don't think you even read what i typed
...For once, I have to *shudder* side with Charlie here. He didn't say there was no black people anywhere else, or anything, merely that the concentration of black people in certain areas was linked to the history of slave trade - regions where slaves were imported had a much higher amount of black people. A century later, obviously populations have moved about a bit, but I don't really see how it's a wrong statement to make - at most, the way he worded it was a bit baity.
Charlie said "far less", not "none". I mean, I haven't gone and checked the numbers, but I'm fairly sure there are less black people there, making his remark at most a bit of an exaggeration.
And I assure you, I know about black people going where they aren't taken. I'm from Europe, remember?
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I suppose it depends on your definition of "Far less." Basically any superlarge metropolitan area has a large black population. Hell, 2 million black people live in NYC, which is very much not "the south."Charlie said "far less", not "none". I mean, I haven't gone and checked the numbers, but I'm fairly sure there are less black people there, making his remark at most a bit of an exaggeration.
And I assure you, I know about black people going where they aren't taken. I'm from Europe, remember?
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Yes, there are more black people in the south, but like I said, it depends on what you call "far less." Anybody who's been to Dallas, Chicago, LA, Houston, New York City, Washington DC, etc can tell you there is no shortage of black people. In fact, more black people live in NYC than in all of Mississippi (almost twice as many), even though that's the purplest of the purple regions on that census map.
It doesn't really match in the Appalachian region, though.