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African Americans are moving back to Dixie

by Phantom Ace ( 143 Comments › )
Filed under Crime, Democratic Party, Economy, Liberal Fascism, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness, Progressives, Republican Party, Socialism at March 30th, 2011 - 8:30 am

During the Civil Rights era there was a mass migration of Southern Blacks to the North. The perception was that Northerners would be more accepting of them and that there was better economic opportunity. Well as we know, that wasn’t the case. As they arrived in Northern cities in the 1960’s racist White Democratic politicians made sure their neighborhoods were crime ridden, they had inferior schools and used them to cause resentment with the white working class. Quisling Black politicians, like Charlie Rangel, made sure that Blacks didn’t leave the Progressive reservations and the gangsta culture was promoted. It was a win/win for the Progressives. White Democrats used the bad conditions of Blacks neighborhoods to make them scape goats for their failures. Black Democrats blamed “whitey” and used it as an excuse for the terrible conditions of their community. It’s a shell game that has lasted 40 years.

Recent census datat now shows that Blacks who can move out of Northern cities are going back to their roots. They are heading back to Dixie for a better life and better economci opportunities.

Two milestones in the long, painful decline of the blue social model were reached this week and reported, of all places, in the pages of the very éminence grise of the monde bleu: the New York Times.

The first was a piece of national and historical news: The Census reported that waves of blue state blacks fled the stagnant job opportunities, high taxes and rotten social conditions of the mostly blue northern states to seek better lives for themselves in the south.  The second milestone was local and literary:  Bob Herbert, for many years the only regular Black columnist on the New York Times‘ op-ed page, has written his last column before stepping down.

The Census story is a shocker.  First, according to the Times, the Blacks leaving tend to be the “younger and better educated”.  Second, the three states Blacks left in largest numbers don’t just include snake-bit Michigan; the other two are Illinois and New York.  Within those states, Chicago and the city of the New York (widely considered among the most successful cities in the country) are the places Blacks are deserting.  17 percent of the Black flight from Big Blue is from the Empire State; after almost a century of trailblazing social policy, New York State has succeeded in creating the most hostile environment for Blacks in the countr

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When whites leave failing blue cities and states, the pundits call this racism: all those white Californians fleeing Nancy Pelosi’s utopia for less ambitious jurisdictions where ordinary people can do things like get jobs and buy homes are clearly pathetic trailer trash hicks too dumb, too selfish and above all too racist to understand the gloriously multicultural blue beauty of California today.

So what are we going to call the young, educated Blacks making similar choices?  Dumb cracker racists?

Read the rest: Blacks Flee Blue States in Droves

Yes Blacks are going back home to Dixie. The so called enlightened Progressive states have made Blacks serfs of the Neo-Feudal Progressive masters. Many have realized this and are going back to their original homeland in the Southern states for better economic opportunities. So Blacks are increasingly preferring to live in states run by so called “Racist” Southern Conservatives, than so called enlightened Progressive Whites.  If the South is so racist, then why are Blacks moving there? The answer is, it’s less racist!

No comment yet on this article from the Culver City Sage.

For the record, I am not calling all Northern White Democrats racist. Just the leadership of the Democratic Party and the politicians who are racist. That applies to both the White Democrats and Black Democrats.

The 2010 Census is good news for the Republicans

by Kafir ( 147 Comments › )
Filed under Blogmocracy, Elections, Guest Post, Politics, Republican Party at December 22nd, 2010 - 6:30 pm

Blogmocracy in action!
Guest post by: Huckfunn!



THE 2010 CENSUS IS GOOD NEWS FOR THE REPUBLICANS

The U.S. Census Bureau rolled out its data for the 2010 Census yesterday. The information contained in the census will be used by prognosticators from all segments of government, media, education and industry to forecast where we should, or should not, build our homes, schools and businesses for the next 10 years. The data will be used by marketing companies to determine the best places for them to sell everything from Cheerios to Buicks and Pampers to wheelchairs. Perhaps the most important result of the census is the apportionment of the House of Representatives. The media has already informed us of the winners and losers:

The apportionment winners are:
Texas (4 seats)
Florida (2 seats)
Arizona (1 seat)
Georgia (1 seat)
Nevada (1 seat)
South Carolina (1 seat)
Utah (1 seat)
Washington (1 seat)

The losers are:
New York (2 seats)
Ohio (2 seats)
Illinois (1 seat)
Iowa (1 seat)
Louisiana (1 seat)
Massachusetts (1 seat)
Michigan (1 seat)
Missouri (1 seat)
New Jersey (1 seat)
Pennsylvania (1 seat)

It’s plain to see that the populace is fleeing the Northeast and Midwest for the South and West. The losing states have long been dominated by democrat leadership and their disastrous economic policies of high taxes, overspending, corruption and over-regulation. It will be interesting to see how and where winning states such as Texas place their new seats.

Now here’s the good part. Along with re-apportionment of the House, we also have redistricting which, like the census, happens every 10 years. The state legislatures will redraw their respective congressional districts in order to obtain the most favorable outcome in congressional elections. If you’re on the winning side of an election you call it “redistricting”. If you’re on the losing side of the election you, and your pals in the media, will call it “gerrymandering” because that word sounds evil. Both dems and repubs have been doing it for as long as there have been dems and repubs. As a result of the November elections, the GOP gained over 675 seats in the state legislatures and now controls 55 chambers while the dims control 38 and 2 are tied. This map illustrates which party controls the various state legislatures. Additionally, the GOP controls state governorships 29 – 30 as indicated on this map at RealClearPolitics. I’m not sure what happened to the 50th. At any rate, the GOP governors will help facilitate the good work of the GOP legislatures in the redistricting process.

Bottom line: The convergence of the census, the re-apportionment of Congress and redistricting of the congressional districts should give a boost to GOP dominance of the political landscape for the next 10 years… provided they don’t fook it up.

-Huckfunn

Election 2010 and Redistricting.

by coldwarrior ( 153 Comments › )
Filed under Elections, Elections 2010, Politics at November 5th, 2010 - 11:30 am

We had a census last summer, remember?  And then we just had an election. Well, that must mean it is time for REDISTRICTING!

The media has conveniently neglected this most important aspect of election 2010.

Redistricting generally occurs every ten years after the census year.  The governor and the state houses do the heavy lifting and draw on maps after looking at the census population data.  If a state loses enough people it loses a congressional seat, if a state gains enough people it gains congressional seats. This is where the Tea Parties were most lethal to the Left. The Right picked up 680 state house seats! This is a staggering number and the Tea Parties are to be commended for this grassroots action. The GOP picked up/held the Governor’s mansion in 23 States while the Dems held on to the Governorship in California, New York, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Arkansas. The bickering and fighting of redistricting is usually decided by the party in power at the state level.

So, given the results of the 2010 election, there will be even more GOP seats in the Congress and state houses. Here’s why: the states that lost people (and don’t use an independent redistricting authority like New Jersey and Iowa): Ohio, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Michigan, Illinois, New York, and  Minnesota will probably lose a congressional seat.  The Governor and the state house draw the districts.

New York, Illinois, and Minnesota will probably preserve a Democrat seat and try to combine it with a Republican held seat to remove the Republican seat if possible.

Here’s the Rub, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Louisiana all have GOP governors now and GOP majority in the houses. They will try to remove a Democrat seat in favor of keeping the GOP seat.

The political landscape in PA, LA, MI, and OH will change to favor the GOP, the landscape in NY, IL, and MN stays the same as they remain Democrat.

Now, those people from the losing population states had to go somewhere, right? They all went to Texas and Florida. Both state have Republican Governors and Republican houses. Texas (this link from Huck) is going to gain 4 congressional seats, Florida will gain about 1 or 2 . There may be other southern states that gain as well.

So what does all of this data wonking mean? It means the election in 2010 with redistricting +/- of seats gives the GOP a net gain of approximately 6-8 seats changing hands form Democrat to Republican. It also give the GOP an easier time of getting re-elected and staying in power by reducing the number of gerrymandered Democrat districts and changing the landscape in which the contests occur. This will effect the 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020 elections directly in both the Congress and State Houses. This is the first of the far reaching effects of the Tea Parties.

THIS from Bob in Breckenridge: Not only are all the Democrats’ states losing population, which isn’t as important for redistricting, but the Democrats’ biggest plum, California, which will be losing congressional seats for the first time since the ’50s, also approved a ballot measure that will take redistricting out of the hands of the (almost all liberal) California legislators and turn it over to a Citizens Redistricting Commission, (this was a measure that George Soros was very again$t).

AND:

The first notable thing is Soros’ funding of the Secretary of State Project — which is basically an attempt to elect Secretaries of State around the country willing to impose Democratic-friendly election laws in an attempt to tilt the playing field in their favor on election day….Republicans won 17 of 26 races for Secretary of State taking six of those offices (Arkansas, Ohio, New Mexico, Colorado, Iowa and Kansas) from Democrats. Republicans now control 25 offices to Democrats 22.

It’s Caturday…

by 1389AD ( 136 Comments › )
Filed under Caturday, Humor, Open thread at July 31st, 2010 - 5:30 pm

And your government bureaucrats are at work, with hilarious results:

Evidently, Sal the cat got on the jury duty roster after his humans, Anna and Guy Esposito, identified him as their pet on the long-form 2010 Census report.

Cat Called to Jury Duty

See the whole story, with comments, here at Purry Duty.


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