Article

2017-01-03 Home Front: Culture Wars

Study Reveals Social Isolation of America's Urban Elites.

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-01-03 05:05|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 And this is surprising how?

Posted by Cheaderhead 2017-01-03 06:03|| 2017-01-03 06:03|| Front Page Top

#2 In other words, there really is an elite at the very top of our income, education, and status hierarchy, and they cluster in just a few areas and cut themselves off from different people.

Hence the terms 'bible thumping, gun toting, irredeemable deplorables.' Tell me, are 'ground breaking studies,' clever surveys, and scholarly examinations all that necessary ?

Posted by Besoeker 2017-01-03 07:19|| 2017-01-03 07:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Lots of words to say "I got mine, suckers, and I'll squash you like a bug to keep it."

Posted by M. Murcek 2017-01-03 07:54|| 2017-01-03 07:54|| Front Page Top

#4 What's mine is mine and what yours is mine 'cause I'm special.

Posted by AlanC 2017-01-03 08:00|| 2017-01-03 08:00|| Front Page Top

#5 PBS was a Great Society child which was to help the lower caste. Today its just a subsidized channel for the well to do. Using other peoples money to entertain themselves.

Posted by P2Kontheroad 2017-01-03 08:10|| 2017-01-03 08:10|| Front Page Top

#6 A retired Marine SSgt. at a local bar here in North Georgia held up a T-shirt one night of Hillary's face crossed behind Bars and everybody in the Bar cheered. Went in a day or two later and the T-shirt is now in a see through glass frame hung above the cash register at the bar.

Message to the Donks and the Libtards, "We don't like you either." Won't fight the Civil War again, but something tells me that these same people had great grandfathers who DID.

We are, by and large. exactly what you think we are. We have been married to our wives for years. We own pickups and we do have guns. We go to Church on Sunday and we fly the American Flag off our porches and we like homemade Cornbread and Pork BBQ. We are almost all Vets and our sons are a lot like their dads.
Some of us have been to college, but we all also own our own businesses and homes. We work hard and drink Beer mostly, and enjoy basically happy and fulfilling Lives.

We UNDERSTAND liberals and "progressives", and we don't like them. God Bless you.

Posted by Chesney Hatfield1534 2017-01-03 08:20|| 2017-01-03 08:20|| Front Page Top

#7 What I'd really would like to see is a statistical study on sexual harassment accusations in colleges - to see if the accused and accusers populations have recurrent profiles.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-01-03 08:23|| 2017-01-03 08:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Chesney Hatfield1534, I'm with you, brother, but I DON'T understand liberals at all. If you want a visual, I'm that dog [I love dogs!] that has the confused look on his face when you do a magic trick with his favorite ball. I don't know how the LibProgs make it through life without analyzing their lives.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-01-03 08:51|| 2017-01-03 08:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Any society is going to have elites. I much prefer to have elites by achievement/merit vs elites who had a head start simply because of who their parents are.

Posted by Cheaderhead 2017-01-03 09:11|| 2017-01-03 09:11|| Front Page Top

#10 I love living in the Boston area - so many people to piss off.

Posted by Raj 2017-01-03 12:32|| 2017-01-03 12:32|| Front Page Top

#11 When I lived there,Raj, I had a hard time convincing people I wasn't in the KKK and that The Beverly Hillbillies was not a documentary. Also that in Alabama it does get cold in Winter and we do have heat in our homes.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2017-01-03 15:49|| 2017-01-03 15:49|| Front Page Top

#12 But are snakepits an important part of religious ceremonies Deacon? :)

Posted by CrazyFool 2017-01-03 16:22|| 2017-01-03 16:22|| Front Page Top

#13 You go, #6 Chesney! :-D

Posted by Barbara 2017-01-03 16:29|| 2017-01-03 16:29|| Front Page Top

#14 Was the study called Cash Cab?

Posted by swksvolFF 2017-01-03 17:18|| 2017-01-03 17:18|| Front Page Top

#15 Do they know a cowboy in Commanche, or the coal miner in Blue field, the anti-castro shop owner in Miami, or farmer in Idaho?

Makes you wonder if "elite" means "American" anymore.

Posted by Nero White 3083 2017-01-03 20:24|| 2017-01-03 20:24|| Front Page Top

22:23 anon1
20:46 Barbara
20:24 Nero White 3083
20:18 KBK
20:08 Alaska Paul
19:48 Nero White 3083
19:06 trailing wife
18:57 trailing wife
18:33 Frank G
18:30 Frank G
18:27 Frank G
18:24 Frank G
18:23 ed in texas
18:22 ed in texas
18:04 Jeasing Creque5352
18:02 mossomo
17:57 mossomo
17:49 john frum
17:48 john frum
17:35 Raj
17:18 swksvolFF
17:10 John Frum
17:08 swksvolFF
17:01 swksvolFF