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{"topics":[{"id":"52f1db16636872719e050300","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@Whatevs\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/52f1cd296368720784790000#post_52f1cd296368720784790000\r\n[bq=\"Whatevs\"]\"@uc9\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/52f1ccc063687207b46b0000#post_52f1ccc063687207b46b0000\r\nlast gasp of the sizable religious faction.\r\n\r\nI have a shrewd theory.\r\nYou see, I think you can explain voting patterns as ethnic things. And Christianity is really the only mass organizer of white people, as well as being more traditional so it fits with the ostensible Republican agenda.\r\n\r\nReally, imo, both parties are left of center but that is another issue.[/bq]\r\n\r\nYou evidently haven't seen Europe's very own Special Racism. Or the Balkans. Despite everyone being white, everyone still finds reasons to hate one another based on ethnic/cultural background. Just some more than others, and the rest enough for them to snicker, but not go to war again or make a mass cultural revolution.\r\n\r\nAmerica is a special case because we ARE a nation of immigrants and there's no identity as old as the French identity, or the Spanish, or the German. So we don't got as big of national mythology, and what we have of it tends to be shared across cultural bounds to express that whole concept of the immigrant state.\r\n\r\nSo Christianity uniting the white people only really works in the US since there's no \"American\" background like there is a \"French\" background; and anyone who could claim that is now in the impoverished minority. But even within America that level of unity only goes as far as what sect of the faith is prominent in one region; Catholic, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and on and on.\r\n\r\nThe only major divide between people as a person in this place tends to be more-so on skin color than name or where you claim you're from (and I'm sure only the recently immigrated in those cordoned off mono-cultural sections of New York and such may only care if you're from Sicily or Tuscany).","author":"4fe4bf947f123b175b000001"},{"id":"52f1df51636872431d430100","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@AaronMk\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/52f1db16636872719e050300#post_52f1db16636872719e050300\r\nI don't see how the Balkans disprove my point, they fight over ethnicity and religion.\r\nI just view voting as a stripped down way of conflict.","author":"4fe16df67f123b13e400003f"},{"id":"52f1df8b636872467ad00100","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@Whatevs\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/52f1df51636872431d430100#post_52f1df51636872431d430100\r\n\r\nAnd the Balkans are white. Or are within that sphere of white-skinned. Your previous statement made it sound like all the white-folk are united, as opposed to the \"brown\", \"Black\", and \"yellow\".","author":"4fe4bf947f123b175b000001"},{"id":"52f1dfc06368724370810100","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@AaronMk\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/52f1df8b636872467ad00100#post_52f1df8b636872467ad00100\r\nBut they still differentiate on ethnicity, they made disputes out of more minor differences than the political sphere of America.","author":"4fe16df67f123b13e400003f"},{"id":"52f1e0086368724460d70100","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@Whatevs\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/52f1dfc06368724370810100#post_52f1dfc06368724370810100\r\n\r\nYour previous statement made it sound like you were claiming all the white folk are united in one big happy family, when they are not. Or the entire European/Western community is under the same uniting banner of Christianity.","author":"4fe4bf947f123b175b000001"},{"id":"52f1e11d6368724460aa0200","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@AaronMk\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/52f1e0086368724460d70100#post_52f1e0086368724460d70100\r\nI mean America specifically","author":"4fe16df67f123b13e400003f"},{"id":"52f1e12163687242f9770200","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@AaronMk\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/52f1e0086368724460d70100#post_52f1e008
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