Posted on 01/01/2007 5:56:33 AM PST by gallaxyglue
Should this really come as a surprise? The Republican Party has recently become a predominantly Southern and Rocky Mountain party. Most Jewish people live in places other than the South and Rocky Mountains, excluding Florida.
You refer to NY/LA getting a different story from “flyover country”, but what about Chicago? I think the media and educators in Chicago perpetuate the same myths there as in NY/LA.
I, a Midwesterner, was given a completely different take on the Cold War as my relatives in Chicago Metro were. Right after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, my relatives were still being told that Germany, not Russia, was our true enemy. Whether it was in school or the media (WTTW, WFMT, etc.) giving them this view, I don’t know. While I was educated to be a foot soldier in the Cold War, they were evidently being prepared to be diplomats and global businessmen and professionals more sympathetic to foreign governments than their own. They are not Jewish, so I wonder if this is a more general inculcation of world view.
You refer to NY/LA getting a different story from “flyover country”, but what about Chicago? I think the media and educators in Chicago perpetuate the same myths there as in NY/LA.
I, a Midwesterner, was given a completely different take on the Cold War as my relatives in Chicago Metro were. Right after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, my relatives were still being told that Germany, not Russia, was our true enemy. Whether it was in school or the media (WTTW, WFMT, etc.) giving them this view, I don’t know. While I was educated to be a foot soldier in the Cold War, they were evidently being prepared to be diplomats and global businessmen and professionals more sympathetic to foreign governments than their own. They are not Jewish, so I wonder if this is a more general inculcation of world view.
You refer to NY/LA getting a different story from “flyover country”, but what about Chicago? I think the media and educators in Chicago perpetuate the same myths there as in NY/LA.
I, a Midwesterner, was given a completely different take on the Cold War as my relatives in Chicago Metro were. Right after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, my relatives were still being told that Germany, not Russia, was our true enemy. Whether it was in school or the media (WTTW, WFMT, etc.) giving them this view, I don’t know. While I was educated to be a foot soldier in the Cold War, they were evidently being prepared to be diplomats and global businessmen and professionals more sympathetic to foreign governments than their own. They are not Jewish, so I wonder if this is a more general inculcation of world view.
You refer to NY/LA getting a different story from “flyover country”, but what about Chicago? I think the media and educators in Chicago perpetuate the same myths there as in NY/LA.
I, a Midwesterner, was given a completely different take on the Cold War as my relatives in Chicago Metro were. Right after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, my relatives were still being told that Germany, not Russia, was our true enemy. Whether it was in school or the media (WTTW, WFMT, etc.) giving them this view, I don’t know. While I was educated to be a foot soldier in the Cold War, they were evidently being prepared to be diplomats and global businessmen and professionals more sympathetic to foreign governments than their own. They are not Jewish, so I wonder if this is a more general inculcation of world view.
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