Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
An influx of immigrants has flipped a state that was once the heart of the confederacy. And it's happening elsewhere. A new kind of suburbanization is sweeping through politics, from Richmond to Atlanta, Houston, Denver and elsewhere, and Democrats are starting to breach Republicans’ firewalls in elections.
By Sabrina Tavernise and Robert Gebeloff, Graphics by Lauren Leatherby, @ NYTimes.com, Nov. 9
SOUTH RIDING, Va. — [....]
Once the heart of the confederacy, Virginia is now the land of Indian grocery stores, Korean churches and Diwali festivals. The state population has boomed — up by 38 percent since 1990, with the biggest growth in densely settled suburban areas like South Riding. One in 10 people eligible to vote in the state were born outside the United States, up from one in 28 in 1990. It is also significantly less white. In 1990, the census tracts that make up Mr. Katkuri’s Senate district were home to about 35,000 people — 91 percent of them white. Today, its population of 225,000 is just 64 percent white.
“It’s a totally different world,” said Charles Poland, 85, a retired history professor whose family has lived in Loudoun County for four generations. His family farm is now dotted with subdivisions filled with four and five-bedroom homes that sell for $750,000. The family legacy is a road named Poland. “If my parents came back today, they wouldn’t recognize the place. The changes came like a tidal wave.”
It’s not just Virginia. From Atlanta to Houston, this pattern is repeating itself — a new kind of suburbanization that is sweeping through politics. The densely populated inner ring suburbs are turning blue, while the mostly white exurban outer ring is redder than ever. Elections are won and lost along that suburban line, and in some places — like Atlanta, Denver, and Riverside County, Calif. — Democrats have begun to breach Republicans’ firewall [....]
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Seattle revolt? https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5dcb3f0be4b028226727db04
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 11/13/2019 - 12:27am
At Tennessee Titans Games, the Fiercest Tailgaters Are Kurds
@ NYTimes.com, updated Nov. 12
Nashville’s big Kurdish community has fallen hard for football, and parking-lot feasts that feature biryani but no alcohol.
A Kurdish-American contingent at an October match-up between the Tennessee Titans and the Buffalo Bills. Nashville has the largest population of Kurds in the United States.Credit...William DeShazer for The New York Times
by artappraiser on Wed, 11/13/2019 - 2:53am