'Time Bomb'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Did you mean to post that in Movies, bon?
So, pursuant to Sean's story about the swearing-in...why are the coasts more liberal than the heartland? Do liberals move to coastal areas? Is it the influx of immigrants? The constant awareness due to ports that there's more than just us in the world? Chemical pollution in the ocean? Heterogenous cities (I kinda covered that already)?
Are coasts in other countries more liberal than inland areas?
Yes, yes I did mean to post that in Movies.
This is what happens when you have two threads open at once.
I think it's a combination of all of that, Raq. Immigrants, ports, heterogeny, and I think there is a tendancy for liberal minded youths in the heartland to want to run screaming from a world view that's so very different fromt heir own.
I don't know if it's really so much coasts vs inland as urban vs rural, and the big cities are primarily on the coasts because they were all ports at one time.
And ports learn quickly that if you're stand-offish to folks who are different, then you're not going to make any money.
I think it's a combination of things, but mostly ports-->bigger cities. And bigger cities are going to mean more immigrants (and hence, more diversity) and more young people.
The US may be more liberally biased towards the edges because our largest ports are ocean-based rather than river-based.
bon is a thread whore.
why are the coasts more liberal than the heartland?
This is not true across time, though. Wyoming gave women the vote before Massachusetts did.
So, why are the coasts more liberal than the middle now? And why might that change over time?