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I’m not afraid of being dumb, or lacking social graces. I’m afraid of being too dumb for the people I love. Too awkward for the people I love. That’s the difference.
On the 2016 election and cultural divisions
A lot of sources explain the election of Donald Trump as the WWC (white working class)’s response to rural/suburban economic decline and cultural elites’ indifference to said decline. I could link y’all to fifty think-pieces and Facebook rants about that. Some of them are really well-done. The Intercept and GOPLifer’s are worth reading, as is New Republic’s analysis of female voters.
I think that interpretation is valid. As someone who grew up in the South I’ve seen that anti-elite resentment firsthand. A significant % middle-class and college-educated Southerners still consider themselves apart from the ‘cultural elite.’
But interpretations that starts from this categorization of “WWC” versus “cultural elites” also miss a great deal (Patrick Thornton’s essay on RollCall touches on this point) On a demographic level it fails to acknowledge the people who have cultural recognition, but relatively little power (I define power as capital resources). Many POC, immigrants, and queer people fall into that category. It fails to acknowledge people who are not WWC, but live in WWC towns and neighborhoods.
When we say WWC in Appalachia, or the Rust Belt, are suffering, it does not mean non-WWC in these regions are thriving because they are non-WWC. I’m a fairly privileged POC, immigrant, queer woman from the heart of Trump country. My privilege stems from my parents making enough money to pay my college tuition. Which in turn, stems from the highly transferrable job skills my dad learned in engineering school. It does not stem from being a person of color. It does not stem from being queer.
Also want to point out that the very qualities that make a person alien in rural/suburban/WWC communities can make them desirable in culturally elite circles. On campus I’ve literally gotten a free dinner for being queer and Asian at the same time. I’m expected to enjoy reading books. In high school, kids made fun of me for all these traits.
Fuck tokenism, fuck those shallow corporate initiatives to seem gay-friendly or minority-friendly and the Oreos ads with rainbows on them but I understand that people feel a need for positive recognition. And if they can’t get it from the communities they grew up in, of course they want to leave. Of course we’d rather move to a big city where there’s more of us, enough of us to form a neighborhood or even elect a congressman if we’re lucky[1]. Or we seek approval w/ the cultural elites.
The same tight-knight sense of community that gives some folks a source of comfort in the impending economic apocalypse, alienates others.
[end rant]
[1] There are more Asians in Chicago than there are people in Knoxville. Let that sink in.
I get it.
To the people who have been screwed over by free-trade policies and personally felt (in their bank accounts) the loss of American manufacturing, who see pop-culture lip-service towards minorities (ethnic minorities, queer people etc), who see their values fucking dessicated by mainstream media, Trump seemed like a good idea.
Drawing hard lines between the American and the foreigner, the paid political agitator and your neighbor, the ‘washington elites’ armed with ivy league degrees in Big Words and the average joe, seemed like a good idea.
Maybe if we build a wall, those damn Mexicans will stop taking our jobs. Cause all those well paying American manufacturing jobs were held by native-born Americans. None of them were held by first- or second- gen immigrants who have Green Cards or US citizenship.
Maybe Black Lives Matter protestors are just agitators paid to block traffic and loot CVS stores, and not people genuinely concerned about the criminal justice system’s treatment of black people.
Maybe these college kids with their fancy degrees and fancy pronouns can’t relate to you because they’ve never had an ounce of hardship in their lives. They were all raised in New York or Boston or DC learning to speak the dominant culture’s language from birth.
Uh huh.
Too bad real-life people can’t be neatly sorted that way. Restoring these binary categories, putting people in their place isn’t going to make America great again. I know it’s really fucking tempting but it’s not gonna work and now we’re stuck with Donald Trump for the next four years.
It’s really, really hard for me to end this post on a hopeful note. Reach out to the people that parents and teachers taught you were “alien.” That’s the best I got.
(J. Wu)
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Domesticated hen permits in Nashville, TN and Davidson County. Data from here https://data.nashville.gov/Agriculture/Domesticated-Hen-Permits-Official/vpdy-5e23
No discernible pattern here. In fact it seems to mirror the general population density.
Average lifespan by Chicago neighborhood. 1990, 2000, 2010
1990: 57.1-78.8
2000: 63.8-82.3
2010: 68.8-85.2
Oh boy. What are they eating in Little Village and how can I get some?
What’s the little exclave looking thing in the West?
@twinkcommunist o’hare airport
idk how many people live over there, though…
The O’Hare area of Chicago includes non-airport land as well. The round part is the airport and the rectangular tract to the right is where most residences are.
crowded housing in Chicago: deciles
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Gonorrhea among females age 15-44. The numbers are per-100,000.
I volunteer for a syringe exchange in Chicago that also does HIV/STD testing and free condoms. I knew they chose locations based on some combination of STD rates and heroin usage rates. Until now I did not know the disparity (for STDs) was that extreme.
(numbers are from the city’s data portal, the file I used was last updated 2015)
I visualized this two different ways. Row 1 map is color coded for equally-sized intervals. Row 2 map is color-coded by percentile. So each color represents a tenth of a percentile. Syringe exchange sites are white stars.
Blank areas = data unavailable.
Percentage of population that is over 64 or under 18, Chicago neighborhoods Last updated in 2015.
The darkest green is for Riverdale (50.2 percent dependent), Lighter purple spot on the South Side is Hyde Park.
Change between 1990 and 2010 life expectancy, as percentage of 1990 life expectancy. All neighborhoods had increasing life expectancy. Green indicates above average increases. Red indicates below average increases.
My guess is that the South Loop’s huge jump was due to new construction of high rise condos in an area that previously held train yards, warehouses, and public housing. Same thing in the Near West Side to a lesser extent.
The lowest increases in life expectancy happen in outer neighborhoods, seemingly regardless of race/income.
Average lifespan by Chicago neighborhood. 1990, 2000, 2010
1990: 57.1-78.8
2000: 63.8-82.3
2010: 68.8-85.2
Oh boy. What are they eating in Little Village and how can I get some?
In the city of Chicago, there is an extremely weak/nonexistent correlation between syringe exchange locations in 2016 and grocery store locations in 2011.
I made some more Chicago language maps just for kicks!
Note: The dataset I used shows the head count of speakers for each language, not the percentage of total population. Color gradients are by head count as well, not standard deviations. Dark = high head count, white = low head count.
For example the Yiddish map’s color intervals represent 0-24, 24-48, 48-73, 73-97, 97-121 (the maximum).
Yiddish 0-121
Russian 0-697
Thai 0-193
Vietnamese 0-1028
Tagalog 0-814
Greek 0-347
Creole 0-271
Italian 0-463
Chicago neighborhoods where Spanish is the most frequently spoken language besides English.
Note: this isn’t the list of neighborhoods with highest Hispanic populations. West Garfield Park (0.1 percent) and Mount Greenwood (0.5 percent) are both included.
What we really get is a list of highly segregated black and white neighborhoods, plus a list of plurality-hispanic neighborhoods.
Now this map tells you a lot more.