– Psychological differences tracking political ones. Liberals score higher on neuroticism than conservatives do. Snowflakery is stale, but stereotypes don’t materialize from nothing. Liberals tend to be less emotionally resilient than conservatives. This has benefits when it comes to sympathizing with others, but it can become debilitating when the going gets tough.
– Viral hotspots. They’re mostly in blue states–New York, New Jersey, California, Washington–and within those blue states, they’re concentrated in the bluest parts of the states, New York City being ground zero. Red America has, at least as of this posting, hardly been directly impacted by coronavirus. It has had to deal with second-order effects like sheltering-in-place and not being able to go out to eat, but it hasn’t experienced overflowing emergency rooms or seen maxed out morgues.
https://www.unz.com/anepigone/loony-libs-callous-cons/
– Viral hotspots. They’re mostly in blue states–New York, New Jersey, California, Washington–and within those blue states, they’re concentrated in the bluest parts of the states, New York City being ground zero. Red America has, at least as of this posting, hardly been directly impacted by coronavirus. It has had to deal with second-order effects like sheltering-in-place and not being able to go out to eat, but it hasn’t experienced overflowing emergency rooms or seen maxed out morgues.
https://www.unz.com/anepigone/loony-libs-callous-cons/