@JasonEmert The naive hope that Arizona was going to remain a bastion of Americanism even with the mass migration of semi-Hispanicized Amerindians into the region was always rather absurd...
Our intellectual community had a fabulous time attending the Young Democrats of Washington's annual convention. Listening to the well-intentioned future leaders of the Evergreen State express their plans for a more diverse and equitable Cascadia was incredibly insightful.
@ScottMGreer Blue = Real America. Also, the Irish are just English in denial. Furthermore, this map is highly misleading because it doesn't include Spanish which are by far the largest European group in many parts of the Southwest.
@ScottMGreer Americans are an English subethnicity and modern genetic testing only confirms this fact. The fact that so many Americans falsely claim to be "German" or "Italian" or various other European ethnicities just because they have a small amount of admixture is laughable.
@WadeMiller@NickSolheim You, I, and every American is European. When we came on boats from Europe to what would become the United States our genome didn't magically transform...
@harn_jacquelyn Considering his voters in Georgia are overwhelmingly African it's a winning electoral strategy to show solidarity with their compatriots on the home continent.
Notable topics during our gathering included if Americans and other Europeans in the United States had more reason to celebrate the country's 200th or 250th anniversary, the probable outcome of a future Quebec independence referendum, and the 2026 NATO Summit in Ankara.
@RichardBSpencer It's quite possible that as the boomers fade away anti-abortionism, fundamentalist Christianity, etc will become associated with left-wing politics across the European World just as much more socially conservative Islam already is...
Conversation during our gathering largely focused on the European diaspora of the Americas with some popular topics including whether Argentina could become a wealthy country again and if Colombia's new right-wing president will benefit the country's European community.
@GabeGuidarini One of the greatest tragedies of the United States is that we Americans abandoned our cities during "White Flight" to hide in the suburbs and then plowed countless expressways through the heart of our cities...
@ScottMGreer Please release an audiobook for the post-literate digital generation as well so we can listen at 2x while working. I don't think I've read a physical book all the way through since I was in middle school.