An interesting, counter-intuitive map of the 2010 federal census. Counter-intuitive because a) it shows most Americans are white (despite news media emphasis and fact that most advertising features black models and out-of-work black actors); b) blacks still live mainly in the South; and c) there’s still lots of empty space in the West. Click to biggerize.
I suppose had the millions of Hispanic illegals been counted, there’d be more orange than there is, but what orange there is shows that most of the legal Hispanics still reside in Texas, New Mexico and southern California. Not sure why Alaska and Hawaii were left out. They’d certainly have a lot of brown and red.
UPDATE: James Taranto on the blacks in the South phenom: “Now, why would blacks move out of big cities in the Northeast, the Midwest and California and into the South and the suburbs? In part for the same reasons nonblacks do: in search of better economic opportunities and quality of life. But also because the factor that drove blacks in particular to leave the South no longer exists. Jim Crow is now long dead, but it had been dead a decade at most by the time the New Great Migration began.”
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Well Stanley, forgive the off topic, but I can’t help it. It looks like Obama Kerry and Co. are getting ready to display some out of this world nuanced genius in Syria. They may keep the Nobel awards committee busy for years.
It’s probably good that I have no idea what you’re talking about. Beyond following Slick Willie’s playbook and throwing a few cruise missiles at the problem, I can’t imagine Obongo and Lurch doing anything but talk.
And I’d just as soon they kept it that way. I see no reason for American soldiers to die for some “red line” nonsense. Iran, Assad’s master, is the problem, not Assad. If we’re not ready to take it to Iran, nothing else is worth the blood.
“If we’re not ready to take it to Iran, nothing else is worth the blood.” Exactly right. It’ll be some grunt and Israel that will have to clean up after their “responsibility to protect” move against Syria.
On the other hand, as Brett Stephens argues this morning in the WSJ: http://tinyurl.com/lcvotul, they could take it to Assad, his brothers, and assorted elites via a strike on his palaces. On the other hand, that would set the White House up for an attack as well, and Iran is just the country to get it done.
“they could take it to Assad, his brothers, and assorted elites via a strike on his palaces” yeah I heard that, but then who stays to make sure this all ens up hunky dory?
Check this out, gentlemen:
http://joshuapundit.blogspot.co.il/2013/08/obama-admin-leaks-tell-assad-bombing.html
Thanks for the link. It simply confirms the idea that Obongo is insane. That he doesn’t care about the troops he supposedly commands is not a surprise, considering he never served and all he cares about is domestic politics. But so boldly displaying his great love for radical Islam is bizarre. Now what I’d really like to know is, other than that, why are we, once again, staying clear of Tehran? Even W refused to attack them, even after their arms shipments to Iraq. What do they have on us?