This was fun: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/09/meadows-boehner-defund-obamacare-suicide-caucus-geography.html
Where the suicide caucus lives, republican congressmen and mitt romney won last fall with double digit margins, the population is > 80% white, and there's not a chance in hell of those gerrymandered districts going any other way for quite a while. They aren't the majority of the GOP, but they're essential to maintaining the GOP majority in congress, so they, 79 white men and 1 white woman, blackmail the rest of the GOP, the GOP blackmails the rest of the government, and Glen gets to eat his non-refundable travel expenses. So it goes. I actually don't think that Steve Pearce's district in southern new mexico is really that white, but they do have a lot of republican latinos down that way. This http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/how-did-conservatives-get-this-radical/ was also interesting, James Sidanius, a professor of psychology at Harvard, working from a liberal perspective, uses a measure<http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3207711/Sidanius_SocialDominanceOrientation.pdf?sequence=1> he calls “Social Dominance Orientation” to describe<http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3207711/Sidanius_SocialDominanceOrientation.pdf?sequence=1> “the extent to which one desires that one’s in-group dominate and be superior to out-groups.” -- rec -- On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Jochen Fromm <j...@cas-group.net> wrote: > NIH and NASA are shut down, while NSA is up. Science is the first victim. > > -J. > > Sent from Android > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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