I don't know. BTW, I'd be "James Devine III" except that my father's and my grandfather's middle names are difterent. I think maybe the numbers at the end may be a Protestant thing, while my background is Catholic. The _real_ GOPsters are White Anglo-Saxon Protestant males -- or pretend to be.
(Strangely, my older brother should have been named "James" but wasn't.) On 11/3/06, Rui Correia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've just been listening to John Bellinger III trying not to answer questions on "water boarding", which made me think: What is the probability (percentage) of people who USE "II" and "III" behind their names (emphasis on "use" – not those who happen to be, but prefer to ignore) being Republican? What are the odds of links to the "South"? Catholic/ Protestant split? ________________________________________________ Rui Correia Advocacy, Human Rights, Media and Language Consultant 2 Cutten St, Horison, Roodepoort, Johannesburg, South Africa Tel/ Fax (+27-11) 766-4336 Cell (+27) (0) 83-368-1214 "Quando a verdade é substituída pelo silêncio, o silêncio é uma mentira" - Yevgeny Yevtushenko "When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie" - Yevgeny Yevtushenko
-- Jim Devine / "Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them, they translate it into their own language, and forthwith it means something entirely different." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
