Most whites vote Republican but there are exceptions.
* There are still significant white demographics voting Democratic. Almost 60% of Polish, Irish, and Swedish Americans and almost 65% of Italian Americans and 70% of Jewish Americans voted for Obama against Romney:
If there are major white demographic groups that have been here for generations and are still voting Democratic, it’s not clear that more recent arrivals won’t.
* Well, they’ll keep enough of us White guys around as their electricians, plumbers and other trades, infrastructure, the things the upper-level Asians and Jews are lacking in taste and strength for. They need folks of the median White intelligence to do those things. Truthfully, I see no Blacks or women, white or otherwise in the building/construction or service/maintenance trades I travel with. Never a Black commercial electrician, telephone guy, network technician, ever, at least in the NYC-Boston-DC corridor. White guys all, except Hispanics rule in the trade of base level construction, drywall, painting and whatnot. Our numbers dwindle by the year and pay is excellent these days, especially small shops that contract. Nice dough in the trades these days and there’s only one race and gender performing these tasks in the United States, anyway.
The Whites in academia and the white-collar professions (those that are not engineering and design professions) that cannot maintain critical infrastructure, especially electricity and communications and technology infrastructure? They’re dead. Screw em, they don’t like my type anyway, let them starve. Ha! And, White women better sweeten up or they’re going to be flushed from their precious perches one day. As White men are flushed from influence and rule, White women will find their incessant bitching and moaning will fall on the deaf ears of the Yellow and Brown and Black people, especially the Muslims and whatnot.
White women still don’t get that their power flows from the generosity/coercion of White men. As we disappear (largely by the hand of White women and all their abortions and birth control), the rules are going to change. Kinda wish I could have another 50-year go-around to see it all come to pass.
* Most of white America is comfortable with the policies that prevailed under Nixon and Ford. Nixon won an enormous landslide in 1972 because he combined law-and-order conservative views with economic moderation.
The Republican party has gotten the idea that it can appeal to voters by moving far to the right on economics and balancing it out with left-wing immigration policies. It’s a disaster that will destroy the party and the country.
* It depends whether the officer is outnumbered by, or stronger than, the suspects. If a cop tries to subdue a suspect manually and turns out not to be up to the job, he’s in trouble. He may be prevented from reaching for his gun and may even have it taken from him. It’s usually considered that you should start to draw your weapon when the suspect is twenty feet from you if think you think there’s any chance you might need it. Once you do have it drawn, you’re more committed to using it, because having a gun in your hand limits your capacity for unarmed combat.
As I understand it, the .40 S & W was a compromise choice after the reform of firearms policy resulting from the Miami shootout. The calibre they originally had in mind was the even more powerful 10mm. But they eventually decided its strong recoil would make rapid fire less accurate and the grip would be too thick for some officers because of the bigger cartridges. I suspect they’d have gone for the 10mm were it not for the increasing number of female law enforcement personnel.
* East Asians, especially a generation in, are about as assimilated as anyone could reasonably ask for—in terms of dead-center middle-class American values, mannerisms, speech, aspirations, lifestyle, respect for law, integrating into suburbs without ghettoizing—all that we required of previous generations of European Americans.
Any ethnocentrism on their part is in response to such rejection as they might genuinely encounter after those efforts, and, increasingly, is germinated, fed and nurtured by (white) left social justice and race studies “thought-leader” professors that they encounter in their higher education.
