Only the most insecure devotees of the socialism-will-save-us-all cling to the notion that right-wingers or Tea-Party members are Evangelical and/or fundie Christians.
Get you head around the realities of this and you may be in a position to contribute something to the conversation that has any meaning
I didn't say all right-wingers and Tea-Partiers are Evangelicals, but many of them are.
Most, but not all, canaries are yellow, but all things yellow are not canaries.
Ever studied set-theory?
I was pointing specifically to the sub-set of right-winger/Tea-Partiers who are Evangelical *and* who march to the tune of Ayn Rand who don't know she was a hard-core athiest (and who don't know she collected social-security, as another poster pointed out).
To me that's funny.
Hey, there is nothing new there, Walter, the exact same things have happened on a smaller scale in British Columbia in the past 40 years. Port Alberni and Trail being two examples.
Yup... BC has a long and enduring tradition of towns ghosting out:
List of ghost towns in British Columbia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
But a couple of things make the Detroit situation different.
First, those towns were virtually all resource based, so they *knew* they were going to ghost out some day, therefor the people were generally prepared to move on when the resources ran out. Detroit was not resource based... it was based on industry, which meant as long as they kept building things, the city should have endured forever.
But there's a second thing, which has Political Geographers paying very close attention, and it has to do with Detroit's size.
In Political Geography, one of the things they note is that in history, whenever a city exceeded a certain size - something around a million people - it would always endure no matter what happened to the nation-state within which is resided, and no matter the condition of its economy or the health of its citizens.
Something about getting people together in large-enough numbers created a sort of economic critical-mass where even if everyone had to change what they do for a living, and how they lived, and what they worshiped, etc., still, the city would endure.
To a Political Geographer, Rome, Paris, London, Berlin, Moscow etc. all have exceeded that critical mass, therefore there will always be a Rome, a Paris, a London, a Berlin, and a Moscow, etc.
Detroit was supposed to have exceeded that critical mass. At one point it was the fourth largest urban center in the US. Consequently, Political Geographers used to state with confidence that there would always be a Detroit, and some of them are starting to wonder if they're looking at a pardigm-shift.
But they still might turn out to be right. I saw a documentary about Detroit that was mostly focused on how so much of the economy of the people still there is based on the drug-trade, and along the way it mentioned a curious phenomena, which is that for some bizarre reason, po-white-trash from the deep-south are moving into Detroit to take up residence in abandoned homes, and are creating a new type of poor "urban-hipster" subculture in some parts of the city, all driven buy some sort of underground economy based on subsistance farming (which poor southern whites would have plenty of experience doing) on abandoned property, and with a sub-cultural "entertainment" theme based on consumption of N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (aka DMT), which produces an extreme hallucinogenic high that lasts only about 15 minutes.
It boggles my head to imagine how bad life in the deep-south would have to be to make living subsistance in Detroit an improvement, but who knows... the Political Geographers might be right... maybe there always will be a Detroit, in one form or another.
