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2004-12-04 Europe

Buttiglione confims plans to set up Christian coalition To Take Back Europe

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Posted by tipper 2004-12-04 4:00:09 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Time to get out the crayons and try to divide Europe into flyover country and the coastal elites.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-12-04 9:15:39 AM|| 2004-12-04 9:15:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Time to get out the crayons and try to divide Europe into flyover country and the coastal elites

Doesn't really work. From what I understand the division line in USA is more or less the same across several criteria with few exception or abnormalities in each -- donor states vs beneficiary ones (Texas a notable exception), urban areas vs rural ones, socially liberal states vs socially conservative ones, Democratic states vs Republican ones. Add in the regional criterion of coastal-vs-central, and you have the makings of a meaningful division that extends through several issues.

In Europe, however, no single issue seems to divide countries across the *same* lines. For example:

Donors-vs-beneficiaries: UK, Germany, France, Benelux ---Portugal, Greece, eastern Europe

War on Iraq: UK, Italy, Portugal, Denmark, eastern Europe --- France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Greece, Scandinavia

Social conservatism: France, Benelux, Denmark --- Italy, Greece, Ireland, Poland, rest of eastern Europe.

And so on. The only point where issues seem to converge is that the more Europhobic countries seem to be wealthy nations of the North -- UK, Denmark, Sweden, Norway.

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2004-12-04 11:58:05 AM|| 2004-12-04 11:58:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Or soliders vs cowards per capita.

WV, OK, AL v. NY, WA, Con.

That was fun and easy!

Posted by Shipman 2004-12-04 1:50:51 PM|| 2004-12-04 1:50:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Take extra socks Aris, 4 good pair woolies.

Posted by Shipman 2004-12-04 1:51:48 PM|| 2004-12-04 1:51:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 In the U. S. Church attending vs. non-church attending. In Europe, Islamizing vs Christianizing.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-12-04 2:19:28 PM|| 2004-12-04 2:19:28 PM|| Front Page Top

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