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2nd Term Part VIII - The Thin Red Line

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Kepler said:
So you're saying the system works?
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:p

I found other outlets for my intense dislike for most of my classmates in junior high, mostly involving video games and a hockey puck. Going the Columbine route never occurred to me.
 
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Priceless said:
Today I'd be sent for counseling.
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And you'd be on Adderall and clonazepam daily after the counselor decided you needed to see the shrink for ADHD because you're addicted to/obsessed with hockey and video games.

Priceless said:
:p

I found other outlets for my intense dislike for most of my classmates in junior high, mostly involving video games and a hockey puck. Going the Columbine route never occurred to me.
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You mean video games didn't make you ANGRY?!?! :)
 
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538 has an interesting story about interstate / inter-regional migration.

tl;dr: Though blue staters are migrating to red states it's not turning red states blue because the migrants are disproportionately red to begin with.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
And you'd be on Adderall and clonazepam daily after the counselor decided you needed to see the shrink for ADHD because you're addicted to/obsessed with hockey and video games.



You mean video games didn't make you ANGRY?!?! :)
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LOL Video games in the 80's weren't nearly as realistic as they are now. The villains in my video games were mostly 16-bit characters :p
 
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Kepler said:
538 has an interesting story about interstate / inter-regional migration.

tl;dr: Though blue staters are migrating to red states it's not turning red states blue because the migrants are disproportionately red to begin with.
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Based solely upon your synopsis, the country is becoming even more polarized with each passing day just based upon geography now.
 
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Kepler said:
538 has an interesting story about interstate / inter-regional migration.

tl;dr: Though blue staters are migrating to red states it's not turning red states blue because the migrants are disproportionately red to begin with.
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So the red states will become more red and the blue states will become more blue. Just what this country needs.
 
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St. Clown said:
Based solely upon your synopsis, the country is becoming even more polarized with each passing day just based upon geography now.
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Yes, in fact the article notes that migrants are more extreme than natives. Just like we sorted ourselves by race between cities and suburbs, we are now sorting ourselves by politics between liberal and conservative states.

What could go wrong?
 
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Kepler said:
Yes, in fact the article notes that migrants are more extreme than natives. Just like we sorted ourselves by race between cities and suburbs, we are now sorting ourselves by politics between liberal and conservative states.
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I'm sure this has been going on for a long time, and the long-term results are already apparent in the comparative successes of Texas and California (for example)
California is a paradise for the social equality is everything, budget-schmudget, nanny state crowd.
Texas is working out well if you're lookin' to put in an honest day's work for an honest dollar and keep them brown people where they belong.
One of them is bankrupt. The other hired "Rick Perry" to an important office.
I'm looking at Minnesota or Colorado when I shop my resume around.
 
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geezer said:
I'm looking at Minnesota or Colorado when I shop my resume around.
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No kidding. I would also take Salt Lake City. I, uhh, here there's this little place called "Alta-Snowbird" not too far away. I think 500" of powder a year would be worth the Mormon doorbell ringers.
 
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geezer said:
I'm sure this has been going on for a long time, and the long-term results are already apparent in the comparative successes of Texas and California (for example)
California is a paradise for the social equality is everything, budget-schmudget, nanny state crowd.
Texas is working out well if you're lookin' to put in an honest day's work for an honest dollar and keep them brown people where they belong.
One of them is bankrupt. The other hired "Rick Perry" to an important office.
I'm looking at Minnesota or Colorado when I shop my resume around.
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The Latino population in Texas is quite large. According to a former coworker who moved here from San Antonio, this woman whose grandparents came here from Mexico, many of the Latinos in TX are very conservative, and she told me that they're treated no different than the white population. I didn't ask about the black population's treatment because neither of us were black.
 
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St. Clown said:
The Latino population in Texas is quite large. According to a former coworker who moved here from San Antonio, this woman whose grandparents came here from Mexico, many of the Latinos in TX are very conservative, and she told me that they're treated no different than the white population. I didn't ask about the black population's treatment because neither of us were black.
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You're probably nearer the mark on Texas racism than I was. I was actually thinking of the goofy politicians in Arizona with their profiling traffic stops and whatnot. But while crazy politicians can give a state a bad name, no doubt most regular people in AZ are also kind, open-hearted people.
It just doesn't sound as scary if I say "Texas may have low unemployment, but you also have to put up with good decent people."
 
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