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violetpastille

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1. Interesting

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Mon Nov 12, 2018, 01:46 PM

Nov 2018

"He is a bald white man."

"He didn’t fight a culture war; he talked about oppressively long commuting times and the opioid crisis." *

"What this suggests is that the lack of affordable housing, paradoxically, has the potential to produce ideological reconfigurations at the local level that could serve as a counterpoint to aggressive gerrymandering."

Gentrification? Well, that's one way. But certainly not the only way.

*Didn't fight a "culture war"? What would fighting a culture war in a race for a Congressional District look like? He wasn't racist, is that the meaning?

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