The Politics of Topography
23rd June 2012
Steve Sailer looks at why California sucks (despite the great climate) and Texas rocks (despite the shitty climate).
The struggles of even the best-connected California celebrities to nail down every last one of the permits they need to build on their own property helps demonstrate why differences in topography drive Californians toward voting for environmentalist Democrats and Texans toward pro-business Republicans.
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Paradoxically, Democratic California is a nice place to be wealthy and white, while Republican Texas increasingly attracts the working class, especially minorities and immigrants.
It’s not paradoxical at all to those who keep their eyes open. The Democrats are the party of rich white people and their ethnic fashionable-victim clients, a conspiracy of the Overclass and the Underclass against the middle class — the Crusts versus the Filling. Republicans are people who don’t want to be tagged as Democrats, be their reasons pecuniary (such as Bloomberg and the New England RINOs) or philosophical (such as Jonah Goldberg and anybody who can read him without spitting up).
In contrast, most of Texas is so flat that few people can see much from their backyards, so they tend to mind their own business more. (Austin, the hilliest big city in Texas, is also the most liberal.)
The essence of being a Democrat is looking down on other people. If you’re rich, you can do that physically. If your poor or one of the fashionable-victim ethnic clients, you have to be content to do so morally. Even homeless bums can raise their noses high enough to look down them at the Politically Incorrect; you don’t have to be sober.