The American Immigration Thread
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Posted 21 July 2011 - 08:30 AM
#3 Guest_Whistler's Momma_*
Posted 21 July 2011 - 08:46 AM
Very cool. I just looked for the biggest bar, assuming it would be the US...yup.
BUt I think the real story here are the 500K people who've moved from the US to Mexico. I assume weather and cheap drugs were driving this migration.
We know several couples who have retired to Mexico for the cheap cost of living.
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Posted 14 November 2014 - 04:01 AM
#9
Posted 11 June 2015 - 10:46 AM
#10
Posted 12 June 2015 - 08:03 AM
As usual, Ann's writing is sensational and ridiculous. I can't think of other authors who get away with so many 1-2 sentence paragraphs. Given that a paragraph is supposed to make a single point, this suggests (correctly, I'd argue) that she has very little substance to her points. If my students wrote this, I"d point out the 1-2 sentence paragraphs and indicate that these would be great places for SOME ACTUAL FUCKING EVIDENCE OF WHAT THEY"RE SAYING.
Despite that, this is the best (of so many worsts) Coulter piece I've read, since it is largely about discussing an important topic (rather than her telling us the "right" position on that topic). Though I appreciate the call for more information and discussion, she still manages to make it laughable with gems like this:
"Whatever issue you think is more important than immigration, you're wrong. Without our post-1965 immigration policy, Obama would never have been elected president. That means no Obamacare, no withdrawal of every last troop from Iraq, no playing footsie with the Iranians, no Eric Holder, no Fast and Furious, no IRS harassment of tea party groups, no Benghazi massacre -- and on and on and on.
Democrats haven't been able to persuade a majority of white people to vote for them in any presidential election since 1948, except the aberrational Democratic landslide in 1964. That's why they had to bring in ringers."
First, undoubtedly, if the policies change then the parties would alter their positions to best compete for the remaining voter demographic. Knowing that, her point seems to be that without people of color we couldn't have a president from a racial minority. How do we explain this except to say that the remaining white population includes too much racism? I'm not sure what else her point can be, but this seems like an odd one to make. Second, as much as Democrats don't win a majority of the white vote, Republicans haven't won the black vote since before the Depression. While these may both be interesting statistics, her focus on the white vote is telling: to Ann, if you can't win the whites, you shouldn't be winning at all. The other voters quite simply don't matter or, at least, don't matter as much.
Too bad, really, that she has to cloud a useful premise with her usual bullshit.
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Posted 15 October 2015 - 05:16 PM
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