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December 12, 2003
Democratic Circus
No one has been waiting with bated breath for me to make up my mind about the Democratic presidential candidates, but I have, and you might be interested in how I got there. I'm for Howard Dean -- because he's going to win.
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So what manner of monster is behind these outrages? I have known George W. Bush slightly since we were both in high school, and I studied him closely as governor. He is neither mean nor stupid. What we have here is a man shaped by three intertwining strands of Texas culture, combined with huge blinkers of class. The three Texas themes are religiosity, anti-intellectualism, and machismo. They all play well politically with certain constituencies.
Ironically, I saw both of these linked at Red State Rebels. I say ironically because in an incredible piece I found linked from The American Prospect's weblog TAPPED, Robert David Sullivan advances a case that Red vs. Blue is a typical American oversimplification, and that there are actually 10 regions that matter. The accompanying map puts me in the Southern Lowlands, near the border with Appalachia. The article does a great job explaining how Bush and the yet-unnominated Democrat can expand their party's electoral totals from 2000.
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So I need to see how the 10 regions map against the "9 nations." The 9 span the hemisphere from the equator to the pole, so there's one big difference (it's more of a social-economic map than this one, which is political and therefore US only).
Still, an overlay/comparison would be useful.
Posted by: paul at Dec 12, 2003 7:25:53 PM