Politics 2021

[Geo]

Is it the same lingering (northern) attitute towards inhabitants of states like Louisiana and Texas for instance? These two are way more economically important for America, and I assume have larger budgets to do their bidding due to the oil industry.

[Buster's Uncle]

THOSE are - Louisiana is its own place, and Texas is on the wrong side of the Mississippi, and they don't get entirely lumped in with us, for all of also being on the wrong side of The Late Unpleasantness...

Both are considered profoundly strange - I dunno about local equivalents of inbred hillbillies stereotype, though it's tempting to make the inbred shot at the Cajuns.  Louisiana IS profoundly strange - ask Green1, if you can flag him in here.  Texas is the only place I have ever been in my life that the people were EXACTly like you'd expect from TV.  Screamin' insane.

[Buster's Uncle]

Senator Ben Sasse, (R) Nebraska, a nasty piece of work, but he is alleged to have said this:

[Buster's Uncle]

I like Ike.

[Elok]

https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/where-does-the-south-end-and-christianity

Chucking this in here as relevant to current trend, and also something you'd know more about than carpetbagging me.  Though I'm not sure you even noticed the earlier Devereaux link.

[DrazharLn]

Talking about what the American South is, I found these two podcasts about the poor white working class in the slave-owning south very interesting: https://www.farmtotaber.com/episodes/2019/2/13/23-interview-with-keri-leigh-merritt

The interviewer is Dr Sarah Taber, an agriculture journalist and crop scientist. The interviewee is Keri Leigh Merritt a historian and author of Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South.

[Buster's Uncle]

We'll see if I find time today to click on some links...

[Buster's Uncle]

I haven't even finished the first of Twitter accounts I've been doomscrolling lately, and haven't even started my morning internet browse.  No link-clicking now

I have initiated an attack on some long-term problems I perceive with this forum, mostly me running it alone slowly figuring out why Owners in the Greater Civ Community burn out.  I asked sisko and the other admins for help.  We'll see.

Still don't know where the day went..

[Buster's Uncle]

Where, BTW, was the census this year?  I don't do the mail around here, so that's probably that, but I do not recall any years ending in zero of the 40-some years I do recall pretty clearly where it wasn't on the news a lot and usually someone showed up at the house to pester us.  Did Momma just fill out the form and I never knew this time?  I remember hearing the word census about once all year, and not what or why.  I interviewed, and wrote an article about, the regional census chief in 1990. 

Crap's important, actually.



-Off to bed.

[Geo]

I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't delayed because of the pandemic.

[DrazharLn]

Their site says that they've collected all the responses. They adjusted their plan slightly to give themselves more time, but still finished in 2020, apparently: https://2020census.gov/en/news-events/operational-adjustments-covid-19.html

[Buster's Uncle]

I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't delayed because of the pandemic.

Well, the Constitution.  Can't really get out of it, and that's how Congress is distributed and stuff.

[Geo]

I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't delayed because of the pandemic.

Well, the Constitution.  Can't really get out of it, and that's how Congress is distributed and stuff.

There's just been an election. I suppose they have 2 years to adjust population distribution for the next election?

[Buster's Uncle]

Dunno about details of timing.

It seems plain that most of the outrageous gerrymandering shenanigans take place every ten years subsequent to the census - and with way more than their share of the governors and state legislatures republikkan, they'll be Stepping Up efforts to rig things against a fair democratic outcome.  Said efforts have already been egregious for decades.

[Buster's Uncle]

I note that More Putsch did not start two days ago as the FBI warned was possible.  So that much good.

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