Monday, April 12, 2021
Good consequence SO FAR
One strange and unexpected consequence of the holocaust is a resurgence of real federalism. From 1960 to 2010, all states had the same laws. They had different tax rates and different speed limits and weight limits, which made life interesting for bookkeepers and truck drivers, but otherwise no meaningful difference. If X was legal in your state, you could be sure X was legal in all states. If X was illegal in your state, you could be sure X was illegal in all states.
Around 2010 marijuana and immigration started to create real differences. Sanctuary cities refused to enforce federal immigration laws, and the states didn't stop them. This question was publicly presented as D vs R, but it was really much more confused and tangled.
Sanctuary cities were just virtue signals. They didn't have jobs for Mexicans, and didn't have a comfortable culture for Mexicans. The states that were actually inviting and EMPLOYING Mexicans, like Kansas and Iowa, were not playing the sanctuary game.
Traditionally D obeyed the unions, and was stricter on immigration. Traditionally R welcomed cheap wages to disemploy Americans. In practice the tradition was maintained. Obama was actually stricter than Bush or Trump, but the public noise was reversed.
Now the holocaust has created a perfect and unconfused divide. R states and D states are perfectly and totally different. Trump didn't do anything to stop the holocausting states, and SO FAR Biden hasn't done anything to stop the free states. Biden and Trump made the predictable noises, but the divide formed under Trump and continues under Biden.
Labels: Constants and Variables
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