To the Editor:
"A Blue City (Disconsolate, Even) Bewildered by a Red America" exemplifies why much of the rest of the country looks with disdain upon New Yorkers. It's not because we're liberal, but because we're arrogant.
Yes, John Kerry got 82 percent in Manhattan, but he also got 90 percent in the District of Columbia, 81 percent in Philadelphia and, in the heart of red country, 81 percent in St. Louis and 77 percent in New Orleans.
In other words, much to many New Yorkers' surprise, New York is not the center of enlightened politics in this country. It's an urban thing, not a New York thing.
Chris Dana New York, Nov. 4, 2004
ahhh... the irony.
An offended non-New York urbanite castigates New York urbanites for arrogance. Then, he (?) goes on to blithely state that ALL of those who voted Kerry are "enlightened" - by direct implication stating that ALL who voted Bush are unenlightened, or (by semantic inference) possessed of a Medieval mindset.
*cough*
And who, again, is arrogant?
Oh, the irony.
I live in New York City and voted for the good guys.So did many of my closest compatriots.Do not allow the Dems to claim they have a monopoly on intelligence as the majority of New Yorkers who voted for Kerry were the uninformed sheep.
People wear their President Bush pride with thanks.
Kerry people are nothing to write home about in their defeat.