The Union army was 25% foreign-born, rising to nearly 45% when including second-generation immigrants.
They were fighting an American South that was between 90% - 95% native born.
Not surprised people named "Kinzinger" are celebrating the defeat of the South, considering the German 'Forty-Eighters' were the driving force behind radicalizing Northern immigrants into a ideological war against heritage Americans.
@DweeBwae@ssecretclone@OsitaNwanevu I think, statistically, if you graduated from college, 1 in 12 of your classmates make that. That could make it feel more common for educated respondents given the bubbles we all live in.
The most progressive parents in the United States are giving their children the most traditional names.
“People with options choose the safest [names] for their own children, while praising risk and novelty for everyone else,” @robkhenderson says.
“In my journey from foster care to Yale, I coined a term for this pattern: luxury beliefs.”
🔗 Read more about what the latest data on baby names says about progressives: https://t.co/qOj85gLtnS
Trump takes issue with the Lindsey Graham eulogy he's reading: "Virtually everyone liked Lindsey. Well, not everybody. But it sounds good. I have to be honest. I have to veer from this for a second."
@adamjohnsonCHI Voters viewed Obama as more liberal than Hillary by almost 5 points. Part of that was his skin color and how poll respondents often just substitute liberal for black, but still.
@edzitron@uhshanti Chelsea was basically already doing this and they won the prestigious and definitely very respected Club World Cup, so I guess we have AGI
@BigMeanInternet The point of the third act was that the bomb also created the Nat Sec State and its own attendant horrors that ended the world (America) as we know it. Nolan is not subtle about this as he doesn’t know the meaning of the word.
Jasmine Crockett says the real reason so many people were rooting for Spain to win the World Cup in the finals was because of "racist history" surrounding Argentina.
REP. JASMINE CROCKETT: “If you recall, the last two teams, it was Argentina and Spain, and it seemed like the vast majority of the world was rooting for Argentina- or actually against Argentina, right?”
“And why was that? Just give me an explanation. If you could guess.”
PROF. DAVID BLIGHT: “Spain had the best team. Maybe that's why they were rooting for them?”
REP. JASMINE CROCKETT: “There's also a racist history”