Hmmmm…
I wonder why?
Growing rural-urban divide exists only among White Americans
By Kate Blackwood College of Arts and Sciences
June 20, 2024
Over the past 30 years, the American political landscape has been characterized by a growing divide between rural and urban voters, almost as if they’re on two opposing teams, according to Suzanne Mettler, the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S).
But the divide is confined largely to White Americans, Mettler and collaborators have found in an examination of the racial and ethnic facets of the trend.
When it comes to politics, Black and Latino residents of rural America differ far less, if at all, from their urban counterparts than do non-Hispanic white residents, the researchers report. With one in four residents of rural America now identifying as nonwhite, the study’s findings raise concerns about political representation of Black and Latino Americans and highlights a need for further research on rural people of color broadly, including racially marginalized groups beyond Black and Latino people.
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The study compared Black, Latino and White voters, urban and rural, between 2008 and 2020. Black support for the Democratic Party was very high – around 90% – in both rural and urban areas from 2008 to 2020, with support for Republicans consistently very low. Latino support for Democrats remained consistent nationally for this period with only a few points of variation among both rural and urban voters.
I know about the non-White rural populations. They exist, and they are usually the most disenfranchised, having to live with the consequences of the actions -politically – of rural White voters.
lips so pursed
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Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) posted at 7:05 AM on Thu, Jun 27, 2024:
Trump campaign announces they’ll run this new ad during tonight’s debate, focusing on a hypothetical @KamalaHarris presidency. “Vote Joe Biden today, get Kamala Harris tomorrow,” a narrator says. It’s titled Who Is Laughing Now: https://t.co/fpnWv3ZNay
(https://x.com/sahilkapur/status/1806297900705567196?t=tpsACOuPLny2MDspmlPYYQ&s=03)
RIP
Wendell Pierce (@WendellPierce) posted at 4:44 PM on Wed, Jun 26, 2024:
Days after his 90th Birthday, Bill Cobbs died today. A father figure, a griot, an iconic artist, that mentored me by the way he led his life as an actor. He played my father twice: in I’ll Fly Away & The Gregory Hines Show.Each time imparting wisdom with a word of encouragement https://t.co/BZNWxW4HuM
(https://x.com/WendellPierce/status/1806081169588416513?t=x0yW2EKziCBSoVWbLX1KNQ&s=03)
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Kim Wexler’s Ponytail 🎗 (@MadisonKittay) posted at 1:58 PM on Wed, Jun 26, 2024:
I hope @Simone_Biles sees this homage. I love it so much. 🥰 https://t.co/YFAEntzyNu
(https://x.com/MadisonKittay/status/1806039474092101914?t=djb75ZL-5qzaRWz9bLkBqg&s=03)
Ragnarok Lobster 🐺 (@eclecticbrotha) posted at 2:09 AM on Wed, Jun 26, 2024:
I like how Cosplay Socialists are blaming Jamaal Bowman’s loss on AIPAC: it means they won’t do the work of examining how terrible a candidate Bowman actually was (his toxic concession speech is a huge tell) so they’ll probably keep fielding equally bad candidates in the future.
(https://x.com/eclecticbrotha/status/1805861021157929268?t=QWYWszG4UxoFLeGuPOMITw&s=03)
Booker G. Washington (@BookerGWash) posted at 8:39 AM on Wed, Jun 26, 2024:
Why are y’all coddling so-called “progressives” about that Bowman loss?
They’ve been “uncommitted,” threatening “to teach Democrats a lesson,” insulting literally everyone who isn’t in lockstep with them ideologically, and now saying they won’t vote.
Fuck them.
(https://x.com/BookerGWash/status/1805958986623050021?t=46i9KSAPnJJHGNsixkXTHg&s=03)
Terry Lee Watkins Jr. 王瑞民💜💙 (@TerryWatkinsJr1) posted at 6:41 PM on Tue, Jun 25, 2024:
Just because a politician is Black doesn’t guarantee Black support.
It’s ironic that the right and the populist left will on one hand ATTACK Black people for supporting Black leadership
Then attack us again for not supporting their puppets.
(https://x.com/TerryWatkinsJr1/status/1805748166433849615?t=yyeRZYZkPhAeN0oV5LB40A&s=03)
The Biden Accomplishments Guy (@What46HasDone) posted at 2:55 AM on Wed, Jun 26, 2024:
Since I’m giving out a lot of free advice tonight, here’s another: Voters don’t take over the top proclamations seriously. Latimer has been an elected Dem for 35 years, and essentially served as 90% of the district’s mayor for the last 5. Trying to paint him as a Republican plant
(https://x.com/What46HasDone/status/1805872468491469275?t=FIYZ5C24FzizZPvkTP4RzA&s=03)
Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) posted at 7:53 AM on Thu, Jun 27, 2024:
The economy is obviously collapsing, as evidenced by the fact that seemingly every single American is traveling today through the Atlanta airport.
(https://x.com/TheRickWilson/status/1806309956322209972?t=iV5nHvZkdD9_t21vTTvvIg&s=03)
Candidly Tiff (@tify330) posted at 5:51 AM on Wed, Jun 26, 2024:
One thing Leftists will always do is repeat their BS. In 2021 they ran the same tired ass playbook on Shontel Brown as they did on Latimer. Didn’t work!
-Labeled both as “centrist”
-Focused on $ from a few GOP Donors
-Smeared both
-“Evil Money” “Dark Money” is why they lost https://t.co/IEG0WCYTJT
(https://x.com/tify330/status/1805916701432721717?t=HI3fdWBgAkAYGn5Sjja0ug&s=03)
Candidly Tiff (@tify330) posted at 3:05 PM on Wed, Jun 26, 2024:
Ads don’t BUY votes and it’s disinformation to claim Latimer is mini manchin as if voters don’t know that man. He is their County Exec not some rando. Evie is right and I am tired of voters in NY16 being disrespected. https://t.co/CnmSHwpzuu
(https://x.com/tify330/status/1806056299001491696?t=LmzQvGfCmcJj4XXymoj5NA&s=03)
Why the Leaked SCOTUS Ruling Isn’t a Victory
The Court will allow emergency abortions, but it’s not a win
JESSICA VALENTI
JUN 26
Well this is unexpected! The Supreme Court accidentally released their decision in Moyle v. United States, and it appears that they are poised to allow emergency abortions in Idaho.
That doesn’t mean this is a win. If the draft ruling obtained by Bloomberg stays the same, the justices will dismiss the case as “improvidently granted”—meaning the Court shouldn’t have accepted the case to begin with. The ruling would reinstate a lower court’s decision to allow Idaho doctors to perform life-saving and stabilizing abortions, and is not a decision on the merits of the case.
In that way, it’s similar to the SCOTUS decision on mifepristone: while it may seem positive at first glance, all the ruling does is kick the issue down the road. It’s a way to ensure that the Court doesn’t release an unpopular anti-abortion opinion that would hurt Republicans before November.
As Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote, the ruling “is not a victory for pregnant patients in Idaho.”
Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) posted at 10:26 AM on Wed, Jun 26, 2024:
With the Supreme Court’s Snyder decision, it has made clear that bribery has a green light for elected officials– if it happens after the official act. A Court with utter chutzpah for its own ethic misconduct is saying ethics don’t matter in governing– big money can rule. What
(https://x.com/NormOrnstein/status/1805986122264162452?s=03)
Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) posted at 3:19 PM on Wed, Jun 26, 2024:
Many news agencies report a coup is underway at this minute in Bolivia. The elected, civilian govt is under siege from the military — appears to be a right-wing takover.
Pres. Luis Arce warns, naming a key General as responsible.
https://t.co/MS6B3d7DYY
He said “democracy must be respected.”
(https://x.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1806059681133035953?t=GVf59Xa8MLKTomutwaaSQg&s=03)
CNW (@ConflictsW) posted at 3:02 PM on Wed, Jun 26, 2024:
Bolivian military armoured vehicle breaks down the doors of the Palacio Quemado (former presidential residence) in La Paz and soldiers enter to secure the building.
#Bolivia https://t.co/2kqEiGmTPm
(https://x.com/ConflictsW/status/1806055448157532417?t=iiu-FZEne9WOi-_VSxjuhQ&s=03)
they played themselves by not voting to join the UAW.
UAW president: Mercedes breaking promises to workers by blaming the union
UAW’s Shawn Fain accuses Mercedes management of “blaming the union rather than keeping their commitments to make improvements for workers.”
By CHANCE PHILLIPS
Published on June 21, 2024 at 7:12 am CDT
Updated on June 21 at 5:16 pm
On Thursday, an email from United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain to the leadership of the Mercedes-Benz General Works Council and IG Metall was posted to X by Luis Feliz Leon of the labor news publication Labor Notes. The General Works Council represents over 100,000 German Mercedes workers and IG Metall is a German metalworkers’ union.
In the email, Fain wrote that Mercedes “management is telling workers that they are unable to follow through on promised increases to wages, benefits, and working conditions because the UAW filed objections to last month’s union election.”
He specifically stated that Rolf Wrona, a MBUSI vice president of human resources, “told several Group Leaders that MBUSI could not pay workers for an upcoming plant shutdown because they were still in ‘status quo.’”
“Status quo refers to a specific legal standard in U.S. labor law that requires unionized employers to notify the union prior to making any changes to wages, benefits, or working conditions and bargain with the union over any proposed changes prior to implementation,” Fain said. “However, MBUSI is not currently unionized, so no status quo condition exists” [emphasis in original].
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The employee said one of the primary concerns was holiday pay and time off for Independence Day. Before the election, workers were told they would also be able to take July 5 and July 6 off, either by using vacation days or by taking no pay.
Many workers reportedly believed that new CEO Federico Kochlowski would make July 5 and 6 paid days off after the election concluded. When this change failed to happen, they attributed it to the UAW’s challenges, possibly because Mercedes management told them so as some workers have claimed.
https://www.alreporter.com/2024/06/21/uaw-president-mercedes-breaking-promises-to-workers-by-blaming-the-union/
When you’re this phucking stupid, you get what you get.
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊