24 October 2009

Honky-Land

There's an interesting article at New Geography that has angered progressives which challenges the assumptions on America's liberal bastions (Portland, Denver, Seattle, etc.). The author cites facts and figures which concludes that all the cities hipsters love to champion have more crackers than a Jack Johnson concert:

This may explain why most of the smaller cities of the Midwest and South have not proven amenable to replicating the policies of Portland. Most Midwest advocates of, for example, rail transit, have tried to simply transplant the Portland solution to their city without thinking about the local context in terms of system goals and design, and how to sell it. Civic leaders in city after city duly make their pilgrimage to Denver or Portland to check out shiny new transit systems, but the resulting videos of smiling yuppies and happy hipsters are not likely to impress anyone over at the local NAACP or in the barrios.
I would humbly suggest removing barriers and red tape to small businesses for urban revitalization, which seems to have been doing a good job in facilitating newly-arrived Americans to overcome poverty ever since Jamestown was founded in 1607. But, I don't have a Masters in Urban Planning, and I'm sure all those Green Jobs and more bike lanes that progressives love to champion will help the Latino immigrant community achieve middle-class prosperity.

7 comments:

The Sniper said...

If I may: Bwahahahahahahaha!!!

Anonymous said...

I live in Loveland, CO. I heard a rumor of a black couple moving in on the other side of town, but I think it was just a rumor...lol

P.S. Jack Johnson sucks.

Mike said...

As a Chicago native from the shitty part of the city by all the scuttled steel mills and not the posh “progressive” enclaves by the University of Chicago and Wrigleyville, I find that the closer one gets to a neighborhood where “progressivism is put to practice” the fewer liberals you find.

The Sniper said...

Having grown up in similar neighborhoods to Mike, I agree with him 100%.

Nixon said...

Haha, it's like the same people who freak out and clutch their man-packs when they see a bunch of black teenagers driving around in a car, but lecture the rest of us on all conservatives being racists.

Mike said...

You know what kills me the most, is hearing these pricks berate me for moving to the burbs.

You see, wanting things like good schools, low crime, the ability to legally defend one’s family, non-confiscatory taxes, affordable housing, industry to work at etcetera … makes me an ignorant redneck racist bourgeoisie lumpen.

JuniorAG said...

Shoot, Lt. Nixon, it's gynormous fun when I enlighten the lecturing yupitoids & progresitrons about the blacknecks and brownecks that go hunting with my trailer-trash self!