{"id":16574,"date":"2012-11-28T11:41:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T16:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16574"},"modified":"2012-11-28T11:41:46","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T16:41:46","slug":"party-polarization-on-display-in-u-s-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16574\/party-polarization-on-display-in-u-s-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Party Polarization on Display in U.S. House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2012\/11\/20\/Two-State-Party-Nearly-30-of-House-Democrats-Hail-From-CA-and-NY\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Lee<\/a> over at Breitbart.com highlights some interesting divergences between the Republican and Democratic caucuses in the U.S. House of Representatives:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) on Wednesday <a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/dnc-chair-gop-they-got-whiter-and-more-male\">said<\/a> to \u201ctake a good look when the House convenes after this next Congress is sworn in\u201d to see that the Republican party has gotten \u201cwhite and more male,\u201d while Democrats are \u201cmajority minority and female.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But a University of Minnesota study\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.umn.edu\/cspg\/smartpolitics\/2012\/11\/house_democrats_inch_closer_to.php\">found<\/a> that when the 113th Congress convenes, a whopping 29.4% (59 of 201) of Democrats in the House will hail from California (38 members) and New\u00a0 York (21 members).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As any number of post-election analyses has shown, liberals have been very successful at defining politics in terms of gender and ethnic identities.\u00a0 What is striking about the Minnesota study is how much those identities \u2013 and the ideology of government activism that supports them \u2013 are anchored in America\u2019s two most populous coastal states.<\/p>\n<p>Remember this reality the next time you hear an MSNBC talking head decry the Southern hegemony in the GOP.\u00a0 As always, the parties are defined by powerbases that offer a glimpse into what each group\u2019s policy goals might look like if the candidates promoting them are successful at the ballot box.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Party is becoming increasingly defined by high-tax, high-spending states like California and New York.\u00a0 Like European socialism, that model isn\u2019t sustainable.\u00a0 It remains to be seen if a Southern-oriented conservative can articulate not only the reasons to reject a statist future, but also the rational benefits of limited government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Lee over at Breitbart.com highlights some interesting divergences between the Republican and Democratic caucuses in the U.S. House of Representatives: Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) on Wednesday said to \u201ctake a good look when the House convenes after this next Congress is sworn in\u201d to see that the Republican party has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[299,1685,3949,560,3950,1784],"class_list":["post-16574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-california","tag-democrat","tag-house","tag-new-york","tag-party","tag-republican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16574"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16582,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16574\/revisions\/16582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}