@aqualover420 I don't think you need the involvement of foreign governments. Of course the TX GOP is financially incentivized to welcome Indian immigration; the average Indian American is a significant net taxpayer!
@TruueDiscipline I think the disconcerting part that many feel but struggle to articulate is that this entire section is Indian. Indian Americans and Chinese Americans are very insular on college campuses. This has very noticeable effects on extracurriculars, job opportunities, etc
@JohnWakefieId Under him, TPUSA was making serious headway with frat and sorority types on college campuses. In Fall '24, they revived the Young Republicans at my college after a big TPUSA visit. You saw red hats at the gym and in classes the day after Trump won. Unique cultural moment.
Secondhand Time by Alexievich is a good source for absurd, Looney Tunes-esque post-Soviet tales. People selling tainted meat on street corners, helicopter crashes becoming a regular occurrence, hustlers cutting alcohol with poisonous oils or spirits and killing dozens. It's strange how many interviewed in the book still look back fondly on the 90s as a time of excitement and energy.
@BarneyFlames Can we just admit WV a bit lacking in human capital? It's okay. What do you expect from a state that's best and brightest have moved away for nearly a century? It's not some indictment of whites, and it doesn't really vindicate any grand position on race.
@RichardHanania Even the descendants of non-European immigrants selected for anti-socialism (Vietnamese or Cubans) regress to being against the market. Appalachia isn't really representative of general "founding stock" whites. It's a human capital desert. Please correct me if I'm mistaken.
@RichardHanania This seems like a serious stretch. If I recall, data has consistently showed that Americans of Northwest European descent are consistently more pro-market than those of Southern European and non-European descent.
@coldhealing Everyone hated that era's fat cats like everyone hates those of our own. At the start of the 1912 Democratic convention that nominated Woodrow Wilson, William Jennings Bryan championed a resolution that directly condemned "financiers," (that era's boogeyman)