In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
We're Red States and we're Pro-Life and we Love making babies!
The New Red-Diaper BabiesSo there are significant fertility inequalities across regions. People on the Great Plains and in the Southwest are much more fertile than people in New England or on the Pacific coast.
You can see surprising political correlations. As Steve Sailer pointed out in The American Conservative, George Bush carried the 19 states with the highest white fertility rates, and 25 of the top 26. John Kerry won the 16 states with the lowest rates.
In The New Republic Online, Joel Kotkin and William Frey observe, "Democrats swept the largely childless cities - true blue locales like San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Boston and Manhattan have the lowest percentages of children in the nation - but generally had poor showings in those places where families are settling down, notably the Sun Belt cities, exurbs and outer suburbs of older metropolitan areas."
We're Blue States and We're Pro-Choice and we love keeping babies alive!
(from Infant Mortality has me seeing Red)
News flash: Out of control government growth and bureaucracy is bad, but poor government services are bad too. Gee those blue states pay higher local and state taxes, but its resident's children don't die and get far better educations.
More and more it doesn't seem like Red States are basking in their "Christian" glory, but wallowing in servitude to arrogant and ignorant policies and beliefs about society.
Red states stop doing for the rest of America what you did to yourselves (via Bush).
Or else we'll yet again need to have a man ride his horse through the streets of north east America shouting: The red states are coming! The red states are coming!
Health and Education are moral needs as well you know.
Update: Holy crap, I just reread this quote from the NY Times Brooks piece that I posted: "...George Bush carried the 19 states with the highest white fertility rates..." Emphasis mine. I just seemed to overlook that litte white word. I mean why would it be there? It makes no sense, unless somehow the NY Times has no problem printing prominently the writings of a proponent of eugenics? Are red states better because (though actually failing in areas like family values, education, health, etc.) they are increasing the population of the "Superior" white race while blue states are not doing there part?
WTF!
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