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Hah, excellent empirical support for my circled wagons tweetstorm from yesterday. Now I know how Dirac felt when they detected antiparticles and proved his theory. This is probably the most important bit of political geography to understand for the medium term.
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1/This awesome map by @kennethfield has rightfully gotten a lot of attention. It's gotten me thinking about urban development (and race) in the United States, and this weird pattern we've created since the 1960s. twitter.com/kennethfield/s
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Hehe, no because that’s my point. He has the capacity to write endless reams about exurbia and bobos and stuff without ever offering a proper new insight about any of it. He just provides a dull WYSIWYG tourist guidebook type commentary
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There is utopianism in the self-perception which he accepted uncritically, hence missing the Trumpism brewing. As said in another reply, they were left behind and convinced themselves it was their idea. The utopia aestheticization in Hallmark Christmas movies.