http://www.unz.com/isteve/millman-the-sailer-v-florida-strategies/For a long time I’ve been pointing out that a number of liberal cities and suburbs that vote Democratic in Presidential elections adopt policies that have negative disparate impact on blacks and Hispanics, making housing expensive and diminishing the number of lower end jobs. Noah Millman has now christened this the Sailer Strategy in contrast to the Florida Strategy of the (confusingly named) Richard Florida(1).
But of course, my contribution has been less advocacy of these liberal measures but exposure of what they are up to. My moral stance is that everybody all across the country is entitled to be aware of what’s going on in liberal cities.
For example, Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to drive out a sizable fraction of poor black Chicagoans and have them resettle in small towns in the Midwest. Any small town / small city opposition to his ethnic cleansing strategy can be denounced as racist, and Rahm’s former colleagues in the Justice Department can be sicced upon the recalcitrant. It’s a giant game of Hot Potato that is being played, and my view is that everybody is entitled to know what’s going on.
Think about Giuliani's and Bloomberg's NYC. One can wax lyrical about the "Broken Window Theory(2)" of policing, but it is more likely that policies such as Stop and Frisk that got black & hispanic men off NYC's streets and into prison or to the burbs. IOW, more displacement than elimination of crime & criminals. Sort of like a planed Hurricane Katrina. Folk who lived in Houston & Dallas in 2005 can tell you about the bump in crime stats caused by taking in Katrina refugees.
So, you have this liberal city of scolds looking down at folk in flyover country for being racists...when they were ethnically cleansing their own street with a power washer consisting of 40,000 policemen. It seems to have worked for NYC. They have reclaimed Manhattan Island and large bits of Brooklyn from
blacks and hispanics criminality. Some blacks and hispanics have Noticed(3), but most in flyover country have not and most coverage in liberal cities is fawning towards
shoving out black and hispanics in favor of gays, hipsters, bureaucrats, and such gentrification.
Anyways, the post I linked to touches on how NOLA might be the next NYC and implement the [Richard] Florida Strategy.
The Sailer Strategy instead is for Americans to be honest with each other about how they are playing Hot Potato with each other, and to unite to import fewer Hot Potatoes for future generations to have to deal with.
(1)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Florida Florida's theory asserts that metropolitan regions with high concentrations of technology workers, artists, musicians, lesbians and gay men, and a group he describes as "high bohemians", exhibit a higher level of economic development. Florida refers to these groups collectively as the "creative class." He posits that the creative class fosters an open, dynamic, personal and professional urban environment. This environment, in turn, attracts more creative people, as well as businesses and capital.
(2)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theoryThe broken windows theory is a criminological theory of the norm-setting and signalling effect of urban disorder and vandalism on additional crime and anti-social behavior. The theory states that maintaining and monitoring urban environments in a well-ordered condition may stop further vandalism and escalation into more serious crime.
(3)
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/02/spike-lee-amazing-rant-against-gentrification.htmlHere’s the thing: I grew up here in Fort Greene. I grew up here in New York. It’s changed. And why does it take an influx of white New Yorkers in the south Bronx, in Harlem, in Bed Stuy, in Crown Heights for the facilities to get better? The garbage wasn’t picked up every motherfuckin’ day when I was living in 165 Washington Park. P.S. 20 was not good. P.S. 11. Rothschild 294. The police weren’t around. When you see white mothers pushing their babies in strollers, three o’clock in the morning on 125th Street, that must tell you something....
Then comes the motherfuckin’ Christopher Columbus Syndrome. You can’t discover this! We been here. You just can’t come and bogart. There were brothers playing motherfuckin’ African drums in Mount Morris Park for 40 years and now they can’t do it anymore because the new inhabitants said the drums are loud. My father’s a great jazz musician. He bought a house in nineteen-motherfuckin’-sixty-eight, and the motherfuckin’ people moved in last year and called the cops on my father. He’s not — he doesn’t even play electric bass! It’s acoustic! We bought the motherfuckin’ house in nineteen-sixty-motherfuckin’-eight and now you call the cops? In 2013? Get the *expletive deleted*ck outta here!
