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Arizona Pastor calls for execution of gays.

Started by MaggieB, August 21, 2009, 10:52:58 AM

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Indeed I do. But were I to offer a reaction to that reality, I'd create another firestorm so I will censor myself.

I doubt if a statical analysis would create a firestorm.  Fact is, more people ID as democrats than republican in the United States, as a subset of those groups, gay/lesbian persons would fall into that basic split along the same lines.

Moreover, if you did further statistical breakdowns you'd find that the large G/L populations tend to center in liberal areas, SF, Boston, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Minn/St.Paul, Madison Wisconsin - and those areas are predominantly democratic, year in and year out, hence, even more G/L persons would be democrats.

And in a final analysis you would find that for the most part the G/L population tends to have both above average educations and above average incomes, the combination of the two is as solid a democratic indicator as there is outside of union membership.

Does that mean all are?  No.  Hell I have a couple of people in my union that are 'Pubs, one was even a big time Huckabee supporter.  But most of the members of my union are yellow dog democrats (as opposed to blue dog democrats).*  That would stand to reason as the Democrats are long standing supporters of unionism (going back to FDR), and tend to support other issues, like workplace safety that we are concerned with. Even more as my union works with performance arts, has many 'artists' of different stripes (scene painters, lighting designers, make-up artists) in our association. A high concentration of "Bleeding Hearts and Artists" then would tend to democratic alliance also. The fact that the biggest and strongest locals are in NYC, LA, SF, Philly would also trend democratic on location alone.

In fact, most of the gay men I know are very fiscally conservative. They are homeowners, property owners, many are self-made business persons, who feel - rightly so - pretty much rejected by the Republicans, (if not outright condemned by them) and if the 'Pubs would drop the 'culture war' deal I'm sure many would venture to the other side.

But, so long as the 'Pubs keep up that extreme cultural attack, most G/L will be Democrats, just like so long as the Democrats keep up the strong commitment to trade unionism, most union members will be Democrats.









*  Yellow Dog Democrat - the people who would vote democratic no matter what, as in "I'd vote for a yellow dog before I'd vote for a Republican."  The original source of the name seems to be Abe Lincoln.  Blue Dog Democrats, who are really the old Boll Weevils, are conservative (Southern and Western) Democrats who are left outside of the party all the time, hence, turn blue from the cold.  They have a D after their name, but tend to vote against, rather than with the party on a lot of issues.

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