SLSL Intro: poorly written?

[tyro tortoise]

--- Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ah, but that's what makes it interesting.  Capital-S
> Significant, even.  By now we should certainly have
> learned not only to expect the unexpected, but
> actively to pursue it.  And that's the point, yr
> "Reagan Democrats" were perhaps precisely those
> "blue-collar" types who previously had been voting,
> as
> capital-L Labor at least once tended to do,
> Democrat. 
> As opposed to, say, African Americans ...

You've oversimplified it. There were regional
(Southern whites and Northern mid-westerners vs New
England and Rust Belt blues including minorities)  
religious factors (Reagan Catholics), age factors
(Reagan appealed to the young conservatives) not to
mention global factors (organized labor jobs moved out
of the country). I doubt that Pynchon is talking about
Reagan Democrats  If he is, his writing is worse than
I thought. 



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