Mayor James Michael Curley, dressed in his raccoon coat, receives flowers from Mrs. Betty Cherry during South Boston’s traditional Evacuation Day parade on March 17, 1947. Mayor Curley’s wife, Gertrude, is sitting to his left in a smart green hat with a pink ribbon, and Edward J. “Knocko” McCormack is in front in his Yankee Division uniform. The parade originally commemorated the day the British left Boston on March 17, 1776; now it also honors St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.
Steve Malanga of the Manhattan Institute and City Journal:
The Dead-End Left
The arc of Young’s mayoral reign—a rapidly deteriorating city combined with ongoing political success—is a strange phenomenon that economists Edward Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer dubbed the Curley Effect, after the early-twentieth-century Boston mayor James Michael Curley. Curley won the mayor’s office in 1913 through “incendiary rhetoric” and “aggressive redistribution” that shifted resources from WASP communities to his political allies in Irish neighborhoods. Tightening his hold on the mayor’s office, he remained in power for more than four decades. As with Young years later, Curley’s political fortunes benefited because those most likely to vote against him had left the city.
The Curley Effect has typically applied in cities, where politics is often called “tribal” because of strong ethnic or racial ties. Today, however, a new tribal politics—an ideological kind—is influencing state fortunes. Many now say that they wish to socialize with, marry, and live near only people with similar political opinions, and these commitments are shaping state migration patterns post-pandemic. Surveys show conservative voters in blue states dissatisfied with their current environments and likely to move, and progressives in the same places intending to stay.
and this,
America’s political landscape has since experienced enormous disruption, driven by, among other forces, the rise of social media, the decline of nonpartisan news, and extreme differences on Covid policies. A new political sectarianism has resulted, with people holding political and policy views as if they were uncompromisable religious beliefs. This tribalism has taken hold even as old barriers dividing people by race, ethnicity, and religion come down. A Pew poll several years ago found that marriages between people of different religions or races were getting more common, but that marrying someone with the “wrong” politics was increasingly out of the question.
plus this,
The migration is changing America’s political balance. Blue states are getting more Democratic, even as the party moves further left. As outmigration has intensified in California, the share of Democratic voters has gone from 43 percent in 2004 to 47 percent in 2022, with Republican numbers dropping from 34 percent to 24 percent over the same period. While the percentage of independents has held relatively constant, polls show that these voters tend to be younger and lean more left—47 percent identify with Democrats and just 26 percent with Republicans.
In New York, the party registration gap has widened. Since 2016, Democrats have enrolled five times as many new voters as the GOP and now make up half of registered voters, compared with 22 percent for Republicans. Twenty years ago, the difference was one-third smaller. New York independents have also grown in number, to Republicans’ detriment. In New Jersey, a state with a strong independent tradition, Democratic registrations rose from 23 percent of voters in 2004 to 39 percent today, a 16-percentage-point gain. Republicans, at just 23 percent of the electorate, find themselves far behind.
America will look very different as our children and grandchildren age. The centers of power will shift to Texas, Florida and Georgia from New York City, Boston and the Northeast.
Will California look like a third world ghetto with fortified islands of fabulous wealth like Silicon Valley and Beverly Hills ? Will San Francisco become another Detroit ?
RTWDT.
42 Tedtam
You can use the link embedded in the excerpts under the headline at the top of the page or you can use this one.
I would like for readers here to take the time to read today’s Steve Malanga headline story from City Journal.
Texpat, do you have a link or do I just search for his column?
Just got an update on Mario (see above on Panhandle fires): his fiancé talked to him, the smoke is a little less, and so far, they are okay.
#38 Shannon The shock waves of that travesty are still rippling throughout the awakened Catholic world. The ones who are asleep, who just show up for the required hour on Sunday and go home, are probably blissfully and spiritually dangerously ignorant of the upheavals in the Church. That priest should have up and evicted every single one of those people. … Read more »
My Carmel Lights text group had a prayer request sent out earlier, I received it around 1:21 p.m.: “This prayer request is from a Franciscan Rosary Group I join on Saturday mornings. The request came in about 10 minutes ago. Urgent prayers request; Prayers needed for Mario friend, he is working in Amarillo Tx he called that they are surrounded… Read more »
Tedtam
In light of your recent comments about your desire for an orthodox Catholic funeral, this is an interesting piece in First Things.
TAMU Forestry Service has been saying Saturday and Sunday could be bad with 40 to 50 mph winds predicted again.
Some Mixed Rain and Snow up there tomorrow.
Should help.
Heh.
The Smokehouse Creek Fire has grown to 850,000 acres from 500,000 last night. It’s dipping down close to Pampa now. The Windy Deuce Fire was 40,000 acres this morning and is now 142,000 acres moving south and perilously close to the Pantex plant and the northern outskirts of Amarillo. The small Magenta Fire and Grape Vine Creek Fire have been… Read more »
35 Tedtam I didn’t know what a betrothal ceremony was/is and this is the first hit I read. Although today a betrothal ceremony is no longer required to get married in the Catholic Church, couples choose the tradition because it adds spirituality and gravitas to an often hectic engagement and wedding planning period. It can also be seen as a deeper… Read more »
I would like for readers here to take the time to read today’s Steve Malanga headline story from City Journal.
The mass demographic movements as he describes in America are very interesting.
One of my CDA friends was commenting recently about needing a shorter rosary for use in the car. “I broke mine the other day,” she said and another friend replied “Me, too!” I piped up with “Yep, I broke mine, too, so I made myself a ‘car rosary’. It’s shorter and won’t get caught on the parking brake or turn… Read more »
I would say that C&C discussion of the CIA operations in Ukraine is required reading.
Darren:
BURNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!
Super Dave;
Forget the courts; Fani Willis undoubtedly had her dress on backwards many times storming out of Nathan Wade’s home. 🙂
Oops, per minute, not second. 😆
Hamsters here are ignorant (“ignant”) deplorables. Bump stock attachments would allow guns to fire 600 rounds per second. 800 according to Justice Jackson.
😆 😆 😆
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/02/28/scotus-justice-jackson-just-said-the-dumbest-thing-about-guns-and-i-cant-stop-laughing-n4926851
SuperDave: re old house
I’m quite understanding because I understand the difficulty of finding time/money/health in the appropriate ratios at the appropriate time to get a project like that completed.
And the blue house really helps protect the Dome from the winter winds. 😉
Chris Salcedo just opened his Newsmax show with the story of the Turtle’s upcoming change in status. Salcedo introduced him as the “Senate GOP Leader and alleged Republican…”
/chuckle
24 Tedtam Childers does have a good roundup of the CIA in Ukraine weirdness. The truth is coming out about this war being originally and completely orchestrated by Obama, Biden and John Brennan. The CIA has been in the shadows before the first shot was fired. I highly recommend the read. Three short days ago, the New York Times ran… Read more »
Mercy! The old house is still standing? What has it been 20 years? Not a big deal for me but my wife would have gone nuts over that. 😉
I heard Jesse Watters say she had her dress on backwards the day she was in court but I thought he was joking.
So she did have it on backwards?
Texpat @ 12:08 I was tasked with going through the offices scavenging office furniture, I was going there 2-3 times a week. I ended up with a very nice desk and credenza with a high back leather chair. Those people still working there with their days numbered did not appreciate it one bit. I felt very bad for them, they… Read more »
C&C has an interesting discussion on the CIA ops in Ukraine, and the disclosure thereof.
I interrupt this broadcast for a special message.
attention uncklus uncklo.
Son of Godzilla will be shown on the Movies network available on open air antenna at 1:25pm.
set your recorder.
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From the link at CFP: Leap Years Explained Leap years are years with 366 calendar days instead of the normal 365. They happen every fourth year in the Gregorian calendar — the calendar used by the majority of the world. The extra day, known as a leap day, is Feb. 29, which does not exist in non-leap years. Every year that is divisible… Read more »
TP 1216: She and her former lover Wade, the Special Prosecutor, both committed perjury under oath; they are both in jeopardy of being disbarred. They both lied about when their affaire started in addition to the cash issue. They both profited from the special arrangement she made with Wade, she was paying him $250/hr with unlimited billables. They are on… Read more »
Heh.
Yesterday I had to meet a TCEQ contractor at one of my well sites. He was collecting samples for PFAS testing. He explained this was a follow-up sampling after no PFAS was found last year.
I didn’t even know they were testing for it these days.
According to a Black & Veatch consulting report commissioned by the American Water Works Association, the EPA’s proposed standards would increase water costs by anywhere from $80 to $11,150 per year for each household. I see an increase in the sales of rain water barrels. Holy cow, that’s gonna hit people hard. And poor folks the hardest. Landlords can’t carry that… Read more »
I received an Amazon delivery this morning, and I am just flabbergasted. This must be the same driver that delivered Hubby’s car parts about a month ago. My instructions with Amazon are to deliver to the Dome, the “house behind the blue house”. (We’re looking at removing the old house this year…finally.) We kept having problems and I had some… Read more »
Shannon, call your office now !!! Without so much as a whisper of pushback from Congress, the White House is bulldozing forward with a regulatory proposal that could cost the average household up to $10,000 extra in water costs. But it’s not only President Joe Biden‘s campaign that is scared of this latest forefront of the president’s green agenda —… Read more »
BTW – one of the rosaries I worked on this morning was to repair one that I made for Fr. Felix. One of his first homilies when I began attending Annunciation included a story about how he likes deer hunting. I just happened to have some camouflage painted beads, so I made a rosary with those. I’m going to include… Read more »
Aggie Beau has family in or near the Panhandle area, but IIRC they aren’t near the fires. Yet.
But I’ll be watching.
Texpat – I’ve watched episodes of that body language panel before. It’s interesting, how they interpret things that I’d overlook – the slight eyebrow raise, the hand position, the tightness in the cheek. I didn’t snap that Fani wore here dress backwards. I thought it looked like it was hanging awkwardly, but it never crossed my mind that it was… Read more »
G’day, all! Finished my morning beads ‘n prayer time. Today was a sea-foam green and gold day. Some days what I make is so pretty, I just gotta slap myself to keep myself from getting a big head about it. It’s not about me – it’s all about my Lord. Finally got my first meal of the day in, breakfast… Read more »
Okay, who here knew Fani Willis was wearing her dress backwards when she stormed into the Atlanta courtroom the other day ? I keep trying to avoid this story, but I keep getting dragged back in…mostly by Her Highness who is obsessed with the whole thing. Fani Willis wearing her dress backwards was the least of her worries while on… Read more »
GJT We bought a bunch of those new Ideco parts lying around Texas back in the late 1980s and 1990s. We shipped them overseas and made some very good money. I walked through the unlocked gate and wandered all over the abandoned Ideco plant in Beaumont one day. Any parts left there had been stolen by others. All in all,… Read more »
Cabot sold off the oilfield products division sometime in the 80s to Ingersoll Rand as it really was a different industry than their other divisions. Ingersoll Rand Oilfield Products division bought Dresser Ideco based in Beaumont even though Ideco was three times their size. It was a union busting move as it had crippled the company. Also, Ideco did not… Read more »
So which RINO senators besides Cornyn are going to be backstabbing each other for Cocaine Mitch’s job ?
11 Shannon I forgot about prisons up there. And get this report. SMOKE: Central U.S./Eastern U.S./Southeastern Canada – An area of thin density smoke with areas of moderate density smoke attributed ongoing wildfires in Texas and Nebraska and recent heavy seasonal fire activity was noted from from the Texas panhandle moving northeast continuing north through the Midwest U.S., to the… Read more »
10 GJT The history of the Carbon Black industry in Texas. In 1928 the Cabot Carbon Company established the first of several plants near Pampa, and in 1931 a plant was erected at Big Lake. Such corporations as Coltexo, Texas-Elf Carbon, Peerless Carbon, and United Carbon continued to expand and sometimes established their own company towns in more remote areas… Read more »
Morning, chickadees! I need to get organized for an outing to get some things done at the post office and at my bank. I am wishing I had made a list over the last few days, as I am sure I will forget something.
The Jordan Unit prison is just east of Pampa, too.
Texpat There still is a Cabot carbon black plant in Pampa. The National Oilwell facility manufacturing rigs, and maybe mud pumps, rotary tables and such, is still there as well. I have no insight on this but appears to be in full operation. They also had a forging plant, in the plant that made big, big gun barrels for the… Read more »
Here is a fire map by the Austin American-Statesman.
It’s pretty good.
The Windy Deuce fire heading south rapidly looks like it’s becoming a bigger threat to Pantex and Amarillo itself.
7 GJT
I was wondering if the old Cabot plant was still in Pampa or if National/Oilwell had moved it. Yeah, they have been there since before I was born.
Back in the Dark Ages, as a young ICU nurse at the Main hospital in Amarillo/Texas Panhandle, we had a fair amount of patients that came from or were employees at Pantex… although, since we didn’t have google back in the late 70’s, I never knew exactly where it was
MY #6 FWIW; I started my post before Texpat posted @9:26 and was interrupted by fixing breakfast so that is why it’s out of place.
The oilfield drilling/well servicing rig manufacturer, now National Oilwell Vargo, that worked for many years ago is headquartered in Pampa on Hwy 60 near Hwy 70 appears to be in the line of fire. If I recall correctly, the place has been there since the forties, originally Cabot Corp.