Because our politics have been nationalized, it’s easy to forget there are still regional quirks and variations. Comparing Pew’s 2014 views on abortion by state with 2020 election results, you can see that states like Wyoming, Montana, and Alaska are far more Republican and pro-Trump than they are anti-abortion. That didn’t matter too much…until recently.
Will we have another summer of love or will this anger fizzle out? If I had to bet, I would bet on the latter but you never know.
@Harry
I think once people realize that handing the issue back to the states isn’t “literally Handmaid’s Tale” after all it’ll fizzle.
In reality France and Sweden’s abortion laws are more restrictive than the Mississippi law at issue in Dobbs, and nobody there thinks that they’re in bondage.
I agree but it’s all about perception. All the Euros seem to think that their abortion laws are much more lax than they actually are.
However, the demographic of people who care the most about abortion don’t make good rioters. My only concern is that left-wing authorities allow lawlessness in the name of protests and vagrants, petty criminals, etc. take advantage of it just like 2020
Western Republicanism vs. Southern Republicanism. The former died when the GOP collapsed in California (albeit by electing a new electorate). The latter arrived with Nixon and gained strength after strength while both the western strain and the northern country club Republicanism withered.
@Harry, it will probably build slow as it’ll take actual outrages against women, not just the legal situation. Then it may possibly be like the BLM-Floyd situation where you have these big protests with lots of soccer-moms and then the radicals come in at night and try to burn stuff and attack the police and the courts and stuff. The demographics of people who want to get abortions tend to lean towards minority voters, so some “Woman of colour dies because” or “Woman of colour is prosecuted by the state” or something is not unlikely.
Alaska was one of the states that legalized abortion before Roe.
Alaska also has some of the rapey-est towns in America. But I suppose that’s to be expected with lots of rough men + very, very few women.
It is also one of the most corrupt of the states, somewhat reminiscent of pre-modern deep Southern states where institutional players were highly nepotistic and incestuous and dominated by few clans. Sarah Palin was actually elected governor on a clean government and anti-corruption platform, defeating scandal-ridden incumbent Frank Murkowski, who appointed his daughter Lisa as the senator when he resigned to become governor earlier.
Lisa is still one of the two US senators from AK.
Alaska also had an active independence party that even elected a governor in the 1990s. To my knowledge this is the most sucessful any secessionist movement has been in the United States since the Civil War. I find it funny though because Alaskans probably are the least rooted out of all states. A large portion of their population are migrants from other states as are their elected officials. Even the independence governor was born in the Midwest.
Everyone wants that oil check.
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=21052