How Delaware Voted:
1796 - Federalist, Adams (over Jefferson)
1800 - Federalist, Adams (over Jefferson)
1804 - Federalist, Pinckney (over Jefferson)
1808 - Federalist, Pinckney (over Madison)
1812 - Federalist, De Witt Clinton (over Madison)
1816 - Federalist, King (over Monroe)
1824 - Quincy Adams (over Jackson)
1828 - National Republican, Quincy Adams (over Jackson)
1832 - National Republican, Clay (over Jackson)
1836 - Whig, William Harrison (over Van Buren)
1840 - Whig, William Harrison (over Van Buren)
1844 - Whig, Clay (over Polk)
1848 - Whig, Taylor (over Cass)
1852 - Democrat, Pierce (over Scott)
1856 - Democrat, Buchahan (over Fremont)
1860 - Southern Democrat, Breckinridge (over Lincoln)
1864 - Democrat, McClellan (over Lincoln)
1868 - Democrat, Seymour (over Grant)
1872 - Republican, Grant (over Greeley)
1876 - Democrat, Tilden (over Hayes)
1880 - Democrat, Hancock (over Garfield)
1884 - Democrat, Cleveland (over Blaine)
1888 - Democrat, Cleveland (over Benjamin Harrison)
1892 - Democrat, Cleveland (over Benjamin Harrison)
1896 - Republican, McKinley (over Bryan)
1900 - Republican, McKinley (over Bryan)
1904 - Republican, Theodore Roosevelt (over Parker)
1908 - Republican, Taft (over Bryan)
1912 - Democrat, Wilson (over Theodore Roosevelt)
1916 - Republican, Hughes (over Wilson)
1920 - Republican, Harding (over Cox)
1924 - Republican, Coolidge (over Davis)
1928 - Republican, Hoover (over Smith)
1932 - Republican, Hoover (over Franklin Roosevelt)
1936 - Democrat, Franklin Roosevelt (over Landon)
1940 - Democrat, Franklin Roosevelt (over Willkie)
1944 - Democrat, Franklin Roosevelt (over Dewey)
1948 - Democrat, Dewey (over Truman)*
1952 - Republican, Eisenhower (over Stevenson)
1956 - Republican, Eisenhower (over Stevenson)
1960 - Democrat, Kennedy (over Nixon)
1964 - Democrat, Johnson (over Goldwater)
1968 - Republican, Nixon (over Humphrey)
1972 - Republican, Nixon (over McGovern)
1976 - Democrat, Carter (over Ford)
1980 - Republican, Reagan (over Carter)
1984 - Republican, Reagan (over Mondale)
1988 - Republican, Herbert Walker Bush (over Dukakis)
1992 - Democrat, Clinton (over Herbert Walker Bush)
1996 - Democrat, Clinton (over Herbert Walker Bush)
2000 - Democrat, Gore (over Walker Bush)
2004 - Democrat, Kerry (over Walker Bush)
* Northern (Rockefeller Republican) suburbs supported Truman, though.
I think De La Warr strikes a good balance.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Day 2 of sugar-free diet. Today I've eaten cheese and "pita chips." Pita chips were kind of gross, though. Not so bad. I feel good, though I'm noticing some coldness in my extremities (particularly after eating the cheese). It possibly comes from diabeetus or some variation thereof. At any rate, my blood isn't getting out to the extremities. Of course, I don't ever exercise. But for the moment I'm sticking to this no-sugar thing, it feels pretty good. Last night I had the same thing, cheese, pita chips, but also a box of raisins. Right now I might go get some dried fruit for the sake of relieving boredom.
The American Prospect
Representative states: New England (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont), New York, New Jersey.
Liberal Protestant.
Green Party: green politics, environmentalism. Left wing, more communitarian, pacifist, fair trade, progressive, favor legal abortion/same-sex marraige/universal health-care/drug legalization/gun control, support large government spending, oppose high national debt/capital punishment, more favorable of increased taxation/immigration, strongly oppose Iraq war.
Location: Hearth: Massachusetts. Region: Greater New England.
Language and Literacy: Dialect: Northern. Literacy (m/f): 80%/50%.
Architecture: Materials: Wood frame. Style: saltbox, stretched box.
Family: identity: strong nuclear; cohesion: high; completed size: seven; servants: 0-1.
marriage: ceremony: civil contract, mean age: 26/23, adults, never wed: 2 percent, 6 percent, male dominance: moderate, prenup preg: low, bastardy low, penalty bias even.
Origion of names biblical, bible names 90 percent, descent of names 2 generation nuclear, parent names 60-70 percent, child nurture will-breaking, sending out yes.
Age ideals elder-saint, age ideology veneration, age heaping old-age bias, death ways activist-fatalist, burial customs high austerity.
Congregational, lecture-centered, witchcraft, town schools, strong education, beans and brown bread, baking food, age-dominant eating patterns, moderate class display, sad colors, moderate to low sexual display, town and team games, Puritan work ethic, mixed commercial economic bias, improving the time ethic, fall peak, truncated rank system, moderate deference, town ideals, hamlet realities, roadside house location, low internal migration, grace-centered honor. Town meeting polities, very low violefnce, ordered liberty.
Whig/Progressive. Wet. Blue. Whiggamore = sour milk man. Country Party. Supported great aristocratic families and non-Anglicans, then emerging industrial interests and wealthy merchants.
Woodrow Wilson. Idealist.
The American Conservative
Representative state: Florida.
Evangelical Protestant.
Libertarian Party: libertarian. Individualist, non-interventionist, free trade, favors legal abortion/same-sex marriage/drug legalization/immigration, opposes universal healthcare/high national debt/large government spending/increased taxation/Iraq war/capital punishment/gun control.
Location: hearth: virginia, region: tidewater South.
Language: Southern coastal, 50 percent to 25 percent literacy.
Architecture: wood and brick, hall and parlor.
Family identity: extended, cohesion low, completed size, three, servants 4-5.
Marriage sacred ceremony, 24/18, adults never wed 25/2, high male dominance, prenup preg high, bastardy high, penalty bias against females.
Origion of names Norman/Teuton, bible names 50%, descent of names 3 generation extended, parent names 20-30%, child nurture will-bending, sending out: mixed.
Old age: elder-patriarch, patriarchy, seniority bias, Stoic-fatalist, high ceremony burial customs.
Anglican, liturgy-centered, fortune (magic), parish schools, weak common education, strong higher education, fricasees (dish), roasting and frying cooking bias, rank-dominant eating patterns, high class display, bright colors, moderate to high sexual display, blood sports, leisure ethic, staple farming, killing the time, winter peak, hierarchical rank system, high deference, manorial village ideal, plantation reality, setback house location, moderate internal migration, rank-centered honor, parish and court polity, moderate violence, hegemonic liberty.
Tory/Paleoconservative. Dry. Red. Toraidhe = outlaw. Court Party.
Supported Anglican church and gentry, then landed interests and British Crown.
Thomas Jefferson. Libertarian.
The New Republic
Representative states: Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey.
Evangelical Protestant.
Democratic Party: American liberalism/progressivism, Social liberalism. Center-left, more communitarian, more pacifist, free trade, progressive, favor legal abortion/universal healthcare/increased government spending/increased taxation/immigration/drug legalization, mixed/states' rights on same-sex marriage/capital punishment, oppose high national debt/Iraq war.
Delaware Valley, NJ, Pa, Del, N Md, Midland dialect, 65/33 percent literacy, stone and brick, Quaker plain, moderate nuclear, moderate cohesion, 5 completed size, 2 servants. Meeting and agreement ceremony, 27/24 mean age, 12/16 percent adults never wed, moderate male dominance, very low prenup pregnancy, low bastardy rates, even penalty bias, mixed Biblical names, 70% Bible names, 3 generation Biblical descent of names, 20-30% parents names, will-bracing, no sending out. Elder-teacher, eldering, optimist-fatalist, extreme austerity in burial customs.
Quaker, spirit-centered, spiritualism, meeting schools, strong common education, weak higher education, cream cheese and dry beef, boiling food, communal eating patterns, moderate class display, neutral colors, very low sexual display, useful recreations, pietist work ethic, mixed industrial, redeeming the time, bimodal peaks. Egalitarian, low deference, Farm communities (ideal), farm clusters (reality), corner-clustered houses, high internal migration, holiness-centered honor, commission polity, low violence, reciprocal liberty.
Whig/Centrist. Wet. Blue. Whiggamore = sour milk man. Country Party.
Supported great aristocratic families and non-Anglicans, then emerging industrial interests and wealthy merchants.
Alexander Hamilton. Realist.
The Weekly Standard
Representative state: West Virginia.
Fundamentalist Protestant.
Republican Party: conservatism, fiscal conservatism, economic liberalism, neoconservatism, social conservatism, liberal conservatism. Center-right. More individualist. More militarist. Free trade. Conservative. Oppose legal abortion/same-sex marriage/universal healthcare/drug legalization/gun control/increased taxation/immigration, supports high national debt/large government spending/Iraq war.
Backcountry, southern highlands, earth and log, cabin style, clan and derbfine, moderate cohesion, abduction rituals, 20/19, very high male dominance, very high prenup pregnancy, saints names, 65% Bible names, 3 generation name descent, 20-30% parent names, will-building, sending out mixed, elder-thane, tanistry, nescient-fatalist death ways, folk ritual burial customs.
Religion Presbyterian/etc, field meeting and fellowship, sorcery.
Private schools, weak education, 1-2 years enrolled, clabber and potato dishes, boiling and frying cooking bias, gender-dominant eating patterns. Moderate class display, folk colors, very high sexual display. Field contests, warrior ethic, farming and herding, passing the time, Spring peak. Segmented ranks, mixed deference, .7 to .9 wealth, mixed inheritance.
Hermitage ideal, isolated reality, creek and spring house location, very high internal migration, 25-40% persistence, primal honor.
Court polity, 15-25% voting, high violence, 5.2 crime index, .25 order index, natural liberty.
Tory/Neoconservative. Dry. Red. Toraidhe = outlaw. Court Party.
Supported Anglican Church and gentry, then landed interests and British Crown.
Andrew Jackson. Populist.
Representative states: New England (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont), New York, New Jersey.
Liberal Protestant.
Green Party: green politics, environmentalism. Left wing, more communitarian, pacifist, fair trade, progressive, favor legal abortion/same-sex marraige/universal health-care/drug legalization/gun control, support large government spending, oppose high national debt/capital punishment, more favorable of increased taxation/immigration, strongly oppose Iraq war.
Location: Hearth: Massachusetts. Region: Greater New England.
Language and Literacy: Dialect: Northern. Literacy (m/f): 80%/50%.
Architecture: Materials: Wood frame. Style: saltbox, stretched box.
Family: identity: strong nuclear; cohesion: high; completed size: seven; servants: 0-1.
marriage: ceremony: civil contract, mean age: 26/23, adults, never wed: 2 percent, 6 percent, male dominance: moderate, prenup preg: low, bastardy low, penalty bias even.
Origion of names biblical, bible names 90 percent, descent of names 2 generation nuclear, parent names 60-70 percent, child nurture will-breaking, sending out yes.
Age ideals elder-saint, age ideology veneration, age heaping old-age bias, death ways activist-fatalist, burial customs high austerity.
Congregational, lecture-centered, witchcraft, town schools, strong education, beans and brown bread, baking food, age-dominant eating patterns, moderate class display, sad colors, moderate to low sexual display, town and team games, Puritan work ethic, mixed commercial economic bias, improving the time ethic, fall peak, truncated rank system, moderate deference, town ideals, hamlet realities, roadside house location, low internal migration, grace-centered honor. Town meeting polities, very low violefnce, ordered liberty.
Whig/Progressive. Wet. Blue. Whiggamore = sour milk man. Country Party. Supported great aristocratic families and non-Anglicans, then emerging industrial interests and wealthy merchants.
Woodrow Wilson. Idealist.
The American Conservative
Representative state: Florida.
Evangelical Protestant.
Libertarian Party: libertarian. Individualist, non-interventionist, free trade, favors legal abortion/same-sex marriage/drug legalization/immigration, opposes universal healthcare/high national debt/large government spending/increased taxation/Iraq war/capital punishment/gun control.
Location: hearth: virginia, region: tidewater South.
Language: Southern coastal, 50 percent to 25 percent literacy.
Architecture: wood and brick, hall and parlor.
Family identity: extended, cohesion low, completed size, three, servants 4-5.
Marriage sacred ceremony, 24/18, adults never wed 25/2, high male dominance, prenup preg high, bastardy high, penalty bias against females.
Origion of names Norman/Teuton, bible names 50%, descent of names 3 generation extended, parent names 20-30%, child nurture will-bending, sending out: mixed.
Old age: elder-patriarch, patriarchy, seniority bias, Stoic-fatalist, high ceremony burial customs.
Anglican, liturgy-centered, fortune (magic), parish schools, weak common education, strong higher education, fricasees (dish), roasting and frying cooking bias, rank-dominant eating patterns, high class display, bright colors, moderate to high sexual display, blood sports, leisure ethic, staple farming, killing the time, winter peak, hierarchical rank system, high deference, manorial village ideal, plantation reality, setback house location, moderate internal migration, rank-centered honor, parish and court polity, moderate violence, hegemonic liberty.
Tory/Paleoconservative. Dry. Red. Toraidhe = outlaw. Court Party.
Supported Anglican church and gentry, then landed interests and British Crown.
Thomas Jefferson. Libertarian.
The New Republic
Representative states: Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey.
Evangelical Protestant.
Democratic Party: American liberalism/progressivism, Social liberalism. Center-left, more communitarian, more pacifist, free trade, progressive, favor legal abortion/universal healthcare/increased government spending/increased taxation/immigration/drug legalization, mixed/states' rights on same-sex marriage/capital punishment, oppose high national debt/Iraq war.
Delaware Valley, NJ, Pa, Del, N Md, Midland dialect, 65/33 percent literacy, stone and brick, Quaker plain, moderate nuclear, moderate cohesion, 5 completed size, 2 servants. Meeting and agreement ceremony, 27/24 mean age, 12/16 percent adults never wed, moderate male dominance, very low prenup pregnancy, low bastardy rates, even penalty bias, mixed Biblical names, 70% Bible names, 3 generation Biblical descent of names, 20-30% parents names, will-bracing, no sending out. Elder-teacher, eldering, optimist-fatalist, extreme austerity in burial customs.
Quaker, spirit-centered, spiritualism, meeting schools, strong common education, weak higher education, cream cheese and dry beef, boiling food, communal eating patterns, moderate class display, neutral colors, very low sexual display, useful recreations, pietist work ethic, mixed industrial, redeeming the time, bimodal peaks. Egalitarian, low deference, Farm communities (ideal), farm clusters (reality), corner-clustered houses, high internal migration, holiness-centered honor, commission polity, low violence, reciprocal liberty.
Whig/Centrist. Wet. Blue. Whiggamore = sour milk man. Country Party.
Supported great aristocratic families and non-Anglicans, then emerging industrial interests and wealthy merchants.
Alexander Hamilton. Realist.
The Weekly Standard
Representative state: West Virginia.
Fundamentalist Protestant.
Republican Party: conservatism, fiscal conservatism, economic liberalism, neoconservatism, social conservatism, liberal conservatism. Center-right. More individualist. More militarist. Free trade. Conservative. Oppose legal abortion/same-sex marriage/universal healthcare/drug legalization/gun control/increased taxation/immigration, supports high national debt/large government spending/Iraq war.
Backcountry, southern highlands, earth and log, cabin style, clan and derbfine, moderate cohesion, abduction rituals, 20/19, very high male dominance, very high prenup pregnancy, saints names, 65% Bible names, 3 generation name descent, 20-30% parent names, will-building, sending out mixed, elder-thane, tanistry, nescient-fatalist death ways, folk ritual burial customs.
Religion Presbyterian/etc, field meeting and fellowship, sorcery.
Private schools, weak education, 1-2 years enrolled, clabber and potato dishes, boiling and frying cooking bias, gender-dominant eating patterns. Moderate class display, folk colors, very high sexual display. Field contests, warrior ethic, farming and herding, passing the time, Spring peak. Segmented ranks, mixed deference, .7 to .9 wealth, mixed inheritance.
Hermitage ideal, isolated reality, creek and spring house location, very high internal migration, 25-40% persistence, primal honor.
Court polity, 15-25% voting, high violence, 5.2 crime index, .25 order index, natural liberty.
Tory/Neoconservative. Dry. Red. Toraidhe = outlaw. Court Party.
Supported Anglican Church and gentry, then landed interests and British Crown.
Andrew Jackson. Populist.
Friday, April 4, 2008
Boy, I am a really bad person. Jeez.
Anyway... I am now announcing my intention to avoid sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup, just 'cause I can! That means, if it has it on the label, I'm avoiding it. Otherwise, what can I do? I have to have laws; this will be one of them. It's not as important as abstincence, which is definitely my no. 1 (I'll spare you the details), but being sugar-free will be my no. 2.
Other even slighter rules, well, forget about them, they barely matter at all. But I do intend on watching at least a few TV shows (Maury, CSI, House, Futurama, The Daily Show & The Colbert Report) and also on doing my daily prayers according to Universalis (and also, potentially, fasting for Lent).
Anyway... I am now announcing my intention to avoid sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup, just 'cause I can! That means, if it has it on the label, I'm avoiding it. Otherwise, what can I do? I have to have laws; this will be one of them. It's not as important as abstincence, which is definitely my no. 1 (I'll spare you the details), but being sugar-free will be my no. 2.
Other even slighter rules, well, forget about them, they barely matter at all. But I do intend on watching at least a few TV shows (Maury, CSI, House, Futurama, The Daily Show & The Colbert Report) and also on doing my daily prayers according to Universalis (and also, potentially, fasting for Lent).
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Tories and Whigs.
Barack Obama is a Tory, and the equivalent (historically speaking) to Franklin Roosevelt, and Lincoln. Yes, babes, this guy is going to be one of the biggies.
King Obama for President, please.
You can even think of this as a way of going back to the decentralized tribal ways of our ancestors, which so many psychedelic prophets like Terence McKenna have claimed as due for the Aquarian Era/2012 blah blah blah.
Because Obama is from a tribe in Africa (through his father, indirectly), the heartland of humanity specifically (closer to Tanzania, Kenya, where The Lion King was set). He's a goddamned tribal chieftain for the United States (and I wish I could say, by extension all humanity, but that isn't true -- that right is reserved for the United Nations' secretary-general, and they already got in on that African chieftain business with Kofi Anaan. In fact they've already moved on, logically - to me anyway - to a Korean mandarin. It's all in Hegel. We're developing a base for the future. In case you're wondering, I'm completely insane. But disregard that and keep reading if you want to, it's O.K.). So, the U.S. is definitely behind the times here, with our African chieftain (of course, but the U.N. is powerless, meaningless, and not for serious, so they're only setting an example -- and besides, they won't be around much longer anyway, not with the EU taking their place. But let us still note that it is the U.S. that has the real power. I was just reading Walter Russell Mead, and I thank him for figuring stuff out for me, and I borrow his borrowed idea of Europe as scorpions in a jar -- pay them no mind, their days are over) . But Americans care about our history, so it's exciting to know that he's going to be a true king, and a truly global one at that -- not just a member of the Anglican gentry (Washington), or a butternut Irishman (Lincoln), or an aristocratic Dutchman (FDR), but a Hawaii-born Kenyan "chieftain" of half-Midwestern (Kansas) parentage, educated and raised partly in Malaysia and at Hawaiian aboriginal but New England Congregationalist (the sect he belongs to, BTW)-founded prep school and then further educated at: wow, Occidental College, the Presbyterian lib arts school in Eagle Rock for the Southern California (opposite of Northeast) Spanish-influenced Scotch-Irish ascendancy (but note he still has trouble with Hispanics but maybe not for long -- we see Pasadena-and-Milton-Academy Hispanic preppy Bill Richardson, gov'r of New Mexico, turning towards him, though which Mexicans give a fuck about what he has to think are none that I can imagine) and then went to Harvard, which is, unlike the more Whiggish Yale, a citadel of Toryism (Oxford is to Cambridge as Harvard is to Yale). Incidentally, that's why a man should go to Yale, I suppose, to make it in business. But then to go to Chicago, rather than New York -- what genius. Chicago is at this point more connected to the outside world than the Northeast. Think of University of Chicago and Pitchfork -- not to mention Austin, TX. The heartland's where it's at, if you're upper class. Oh, gosh, not to mention the latest development in soft power -- Western Pennsylvania's Black Moth Super Rainbow, on a Chicago wigger label (and Ohio's noisecore or whatever).\\
So, you can see that everything fits!
- George Washington of Virginia
- Abraham Lincoln of the Frontier
- Franklin Roosevelt of New York, Groton and Harvard, and the Navy
- Barack Obama of Hawai'i, L.A., and Chicago (and Harvard Law)
He's the gifted public school (magnet school) kid, at least on the West Coast. Oh, I forgot to mention -- the supposed madrassa he went to, in Malaysia? It's actually Malaysia's N0. 1 prep school, founded by & for the children of the Dutch colonial elite!
Barack Obama is a Tory, and the equivalent (historically speaking) to Franklin Roosevelt, and Lincoln. Yes, babes, this guy is going to be one of the biggies.
King Obama for President, please.
You can even think of this as a way of going back to the decentralized tribal ways of our ancestors, which so many psychedelic prophets like Terence McKenna have claimed as due for the Aquarian Era/2012 blah blah blah.
Because Obama is from a tribe in Africa (through his father, indirectly), the heartland of humanity specifically (closer to Tanzania, Kenya, where The Lion King was set). He's a goddamned tribal chieftain for the United States (and I wish I could say, by extension all humanity, but that isn't true -- that right is reserved for the United Nations' secretary-general, and they already got in on that African chieftain business with Kofi Anaan. In fact they've already moved on, logically - to me anyway - to a Korean mandarin. It's all in Hegel. We're developing a base for the future. In case you're wondering, I'm completely insane. But disregard that and keep reading if you want to, it's O.K.). So, the U.S. is definitely behind the times here, with our African chieftain (of course, but the U.N. is powerless, meaningless, and not for serious, so they're only setting an example -- and besides, they won't be around much longer anyway, not with the EU taking their place. But let us still note that it is the U.S. that has the real power. I was just reading Walter Russell Mead, and I thank him for figuring stuff out for me, and I borrow his borrowed idea of Europe as scorpions in a jar -- pay them no mind, their days are over) . But Americans care about our history, so it's exciting to know that he's going to be a true king, and a truly global one at that -- not just a member of the Anglican gentry (Washington), or a butternut Irishman (Lincoln), or an aristocratic Dutchman (FDR), but a Hawaii-born Kenyan "chieftain" of half-Midwestern (Kansas) parentage, educated and raised partly in Malaysia and at Hawaiian aboriginal but New England Congregationalist (the sect he belongs to, BTW)-founded prep school and then further educated at: wow, Occidental College, the Presbyterian lib arts school in Eagle Rock for the Southern California (opposite of Northeast) Spanish-influenced Scotch-Irish ascendancy (but note he still has trouble with Hispanics but maybe not for long -- we see Pasadena-and-Milton-Academy Hispanic preppy Bill Richardson, gov'r of New Mexico, turning towards him, though which Mexicans give a fuck about what he has to think are none that I can imagine) and then went to Harvard, which is, unlike the more Whiggish Yale, a citadel of Toryism (Oxford is to Cambridge as Harvard is to Yale). Incidentally, that's why a man should go to Yale, I suppose, to make it in business. But then to go to Chicago, rather than New York -- what genius. Chicago is at this point more connected to the outside world than the Northeast. Think of University of Chicago and Pitchfork -- not to mention Austin, TX. The heartland's where it's at, if you're upper class. Oh, gosh, not to mention the latest development in soft power -- Western Pennsylvania's Black Moth Super Rainbow, on a Chicago wigger label (and Ohio's noisecore or whatever).\\
So, you can see that everything fits!
- George Washington of Virginia
- Abraham Lincoln of the Frontier
- Franklin Roosevelt of New York, Groton and Harvard, and the Navy
- Barack Obama of Hawai'i, L.A., and Chicago (and Harvard Law)
He's the gifted public school (magnet school) kid, at least on the West Coast. Oh, I forgot to mention -- the supposed madrassa he went to, in Malaysia? It's actually Malaysia's N0. 1 prep school, founded by & for the children of the Dutch colonial elite!
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