Natalism and the breeding of tiny Republicans

[Sticky]

PARKER, Colo.—The gymnasium at Challenger Recreation Center is going full tilt, with youngsters sprinting up and down the court, heaving basketballs at buckets that tower over them.

On each side, proud parents, camcorders and digital cameras hard at work, record the exploits of their offspring, mothers alternately cheering and rocking infants in their arms.

Other kids are in the centre’s pool, its roller rink, its skating rink. In the summer, they flock to the baseball diamond and soccer field.

To understand the essence of George W. Bush’s America, one should make the journey to Douglas County, southeast of Denver, long one of the fastest-growing counties in the United States.

Demographers believe counties like Douglas will fuel future Republican victories, electoral wins assured in years to come by those tiny basketball scamps.

, dubbed the Red Diaper Brigade.

Those scamps are the raison d’être for Parker — a 41,000-strong Douglas County community of family restaurants, single-family homes, schools and playing fields — perhaps one of the most family-centric places in America.

The phenomenon has been called “natalism,” a theory showing — with remarkable predictability and clarity — that young, affluent, conservative families with the highest birthrates are raising broods of tiny Republicans who will keep their parents’ party in power.


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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. just because their parents are repukes

doesn't mean they will grow and vote repuke.

[madrchsod]

2. they will grow up just like any other generation

there has been places like this since the great suburban expansion in the 50`s..where did the beatniks and the hippys came from? mars?

[punpirate]

4. Nearly as far away as that...

... to these people: SF and NYC.... :)

[Canuckistanian]

8. I agree.

There will be a cultural backlash. These kids (like any in history) will discover for themselves the hypocrisy and dishonesty and rebel.
It's human nature. It'll be just like the cultural revolution in the '60's and it's reaction to Vietnam.

[SharonAnn]

3. When parents find that hospitals, police, fire, schools, colleges are

underfunded by design of the GOP, they might change their minds.

When they find out that their town can't afford libraries, swimming pools, or parks, they might change their minds.

When they find out that nearby corporations get tax breaks (thus not supporting schools) while their taxes go up, they might change their minds.

When they find out that nearby (or far away) companies are poisoning the air, water and ground of Parker, CO and the citizens and state cannot do anything about it because EPA standards have been lowered and no state can have higher standards than the EPA, they might change their minds.

When they find out their children are being contacted by Armed Forces recruiters as early as 10th grade with great "con man" stories about the great life they'll have if they join the military, they might change their minds.

Then, on the other hand, they might not change their minds.

[Sticky]

5. Cloistered in fear and ignorance

He is Republican for a simple reason — he doesn’t like liberals.

“I’m not into same-sex marriage,” says the father of three. “I’m a member of the National Rifle Association.”

Republicans have certainly pigeon-holed their beliefs....it's sad, really. Even among folks in the upper echelon there is extreme ignorance, and even worse than that, they're breeding ignorance.

[Karenina]

6. Posters of their "idols" on the walls

stereos blasting,

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2865086

[meow2u3]

7. What we need is a "blue diaper" brigade

But we, by virtue of our lack of money, might need to sacrifice our own comfort to raise Democratic kids who'll outvote the "red diaper" Repukes, even if it means we stop running to the abortion clinics and have the kids who would have become Democrats.

I hate to say this, but the real reason Repukes are actually condoning abortion, while falsely professing to abolish it, is to keep the Democratic population down--especially that of minorities!

[nashville_brook]

9. may the jesus of suburbia save the american idiots!

anyone ever see that hysterical HBO movie, Over The Edge? it might have had matt dillon in it.

these kids aren't going to be republicans. those "neighborhoods" with the family restaurants and super wal-marts will have long gone to seed.