{"id":56720,"date":"2014-08-22T14:58:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T22:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=56720"},"modified":"2014-08-22T14:59:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T22:59:28","slug":"what-are-the-best-cities-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=56720","title":{"rendered":"What Are The Best Cities In America?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Taylor writes in <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B008UB5OI4\/ref=docs-os-doi_0\">White Identity<\/a>: One writer about urban affairs noted that the cities the the media, academics, and city planners invariably call the most desirable places to live &#8212; such as Portland, Seattle, Austin, Minneapolis, and Denver &#8212; have something in common: they are overwhelmingly white. He called Portland, which is often heralded as one of America&#8217;s most successful, progressive, communities, &#8220;America&#8217;s ultimate White City.&#8221; &#8220;The contrast with other, supposedly less advanced cities is stark,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The writer could not bring himself to take the next step: These places are desirable because they are white, and they will cease to be desirable if they cease to be white. No &#8220;ultimate White City&#8221; can stay that way&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Under the current rules of American society, whites have no moral grounds to preserve racial majorities in any context, whether in a club, neighborhood, school, region, the nation as a whole, or even in their own families. Somewhere, deep in their bones, whites yearn for the comfort, the ease, the joy of living among their own people in societies that reflect the values of their ancestors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Taylor writes in White Identity: One writer about urban affairs noted that the cities the the media, academics, and city planners invariably call the most desirable places to live &#8212; such as Portland, Seattle, Austin, Minneapolis, and Denver &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=56720\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29594],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whites"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jared Taylor writes in White Identity: One writer about urban affairs noted that the cities the the media, academics, and city planners invariably call the most desirable places to live -- such as Portland, Seattle, Austin, Minneapolis, and Denver -- have something in common: they are overwhelmingly white. 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