POLITICS SCHMALITICS

[Jim Cowan]

All those little New England states would combine into one decent sized province.

[Tiger337]

15 minutes ago, Jim Cowan said:

All those little New England states would combine into one decent sized province.

I would not have a problem with that. We promise to make sure New Hampshire behaves itself.  

[smr-nj]

I’m gonna guess that no one will want to take Jersey. 
F**k it.  We’ll be our own country.

[CMRivdogs]

1 minute ago, smr-nj said:

I’m gonna guess that no one will want to take Jersey. 
F**k it.  We’ll be our own country.

I could see a East Coast Federation of NJ, NYC Metro, Eastern PA, Maryland, Delaware, Eastern Va, Including DC

[smr-nj]

15 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

I could see a East Coast Federation of NJ, NYC Metro, Eastern PA, Maryland, Delaware, Eastern Va, Including DC

I’m sorry, but I refuse to be a part of anything that includes Staten Island.
Or Queens.

😂

[Motown Bombers]

When forming these new countries, can Michigan just be annexed by Canada?

[CMRivdogs]

Maybe just revert back to the Treaty of Paris....

[casimir]

1 hour ago, CMRivdogs said:

Maybe just revert back to the Treaty of Paris....

At least get back to pre traffic roundabout times.

[chasfh]

There are no political bonds defining them, but we may already have 11 different nations here.

Edited January 3, 2022 by chasfh

[oblong]

the difficult thing is even within each state you have issues... I'm not sure outside of the 30 mile radius from Grand Circus Park in Detroit that it's a blue state.   Aside from areas in Flint and urban areas on the west side I bet it's as red as anywhere.  

[Motown Bombers]

A 30 mile radius of Grand Circus Park is probably about 35-40% of Michigan's population. Just re-settle people from Ann Arbor and Flint into all the vacant land in Detroit and call it good. 

[Tiger337]

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

There are no political bonds defining them, but we may already have 11 different nations here.

How did Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota become part of Yankeedom?  

[Motown Bombers]

Just now, Tiger337 said:

How did Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota become part of Yankeedom?  

Yankeedom wants to control the Great Lakes. Smart move. 

[Tiger337]

We also need some farmers which is something we lack in the northeast.  

[smr-nj]

😂 New Netherlands!??! What the heck? 
and as I stated previously…. I’m not going to accept Staten Island or Queens as part of the mix….(will sell for $27 in trinkets)

. PLUS, it cut off the section of Jersey worth keeping! The beautiful shore areas.

 I’m going to hunt down whoever created that travesty and feed them to the sharks.😁

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, Tiger337 said:

How did Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota become part of Yankeedom?  

I can't speak for Wisconsin or Minnesota, but Michigan was "white-settled" mainly by people from the northeast, chiefly New York state. It's one of the reasons why we have cities named Troy, Rochester, Utica, Farmington, Warren, Auburn Hills, Clinton Township, and probably a few others named directly for New York towns or people.

[chasfh]

2 hours ago, oblong said:

the difficult thing is even within each state you have issues... I'm not sure outside of the 30 mile radius from Grand Circus Park in Detroit that it's a blue state.   Aside from areas in Flint and urban areas on the west side I bet it's as red as anywhere.  

A lot of that might have to do with southern migration to Michigan in the first half of the 20th Century, but the saturation of populist red state political thinking, I think, is a recent thing, like last decade or so. The feeling was probably always latent, but I think that movement, as it were, might have found its legs with all those bomb-throwing right-wing websites that all started up in the mid to late 2000s, then got supercharged by Trump and his sycophantic right-wing media cabal in the last six or seven or so years.

[gehringer_2]

2 hours ago, oblong said:

the difficult thing is even within each state you have issues... I'm not sure outside of the 30 mile radius from Grand Circus Park in Detroit that it's a blue state.   Aside from areas in Flint and urban areas on the west side I bet it's as red as anywhere.  

this is true. The more fundamental split in the US is urban/rural and it exists in pretty much every state. Aside from maybe the core of the old South, a state's relative blueness is pretty a measure of its internal urban/rural population dist. Even in Tx Houston is Democratic, and even in CA the Central valley is GOP.

[oblong]

23 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I can't speak for Wisconsin or Minnesota, but Michigan was "white-settled" mainly by people from the northeast, chiefly New York state. It's one of the reasons why we have cities named Troy, Rochester, Utica, Farmington, Warren, Auburn Hills, Clinton Township, and probably a few others named directly for New York towns or people.

There's a  Livonia in upstate NY, near Rochester.  My nephew lives around there.

 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

Shouldn't New Netherlands be Grand Rapids, Holland and West Michigan? Doesn't it say on the Grand Rapids city seal "If you ain't Dutch, you ain't much!"

[Mr.TaterSalad]

[oblong]

 

[chasfh]

Headlights are on!

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

16 hours ago, smr-nj said:

😂 New Netherlands!??! What the heck?

🎶 even old New York was once New Amsterdam...

[Cartman]

Latino groups want to do away with “Latinx”

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Details: Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus' campaign arm, announced last month his congressional staff is not allowed to use "Latinx" in official communications. 

• "When Latino politicos use the term it is largely to appease white rich progressives who think that is the term we use. It is a vicious circle of confirmation bias," he tweeted.
• Days after Gallego's tweet, Domingo García, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, instructed staff and board members to drop the word "Latinx" from the group's official communications, NBC Latino's Suzanne Gamboa reported.
• "The reality is, there is very little to no support for its use, and it's sort of seen as something used inside the Beltway or in Ivy League tower settings," García told NBC News.