New York Sense of Humor

[orichalcum]

Roger Cohen of the NYT points out this answer from Palin during the V-P debate:

"“One thing that Americans do at this time, also, though, is let’s commit ourselves just everyday American people, Joe Six Pack, hockey moms across the nation, I think we need to band together and say ‘Never Again.’ Never will we be exploited and taken advantage of again by those managing our money and loaning us these dollars.”

Um. I'm not saying it's necessarily anti-Semitic to use Holocaust terminology to castigate New York moneylenders, but, at the least, it's remarkably insensitive hyperbole. I'm not underestimating the impact of the economic crisis, but last time I checked, six million people hadn't died as a result.

Still, it's better than her permitting chants of "Kill Him!" during her political rallies.

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[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

And not to post a third time, but I was just thinking to myself "Huh, census.gov could help us with this question!" Except I then remembered they won't touch religion questions with a ten foot pole, so you'd have to get population density data from them and distribution of Jews from some other source and overlay it with GIS software, and I just don't have the librarian fu for that. And it's really only accessory to your query anyway. But it got me thinking. I should shut up and go work now.

Here are some statistics... knock yourself out

[marginaleye.livejournal.com]

Census.gov won't help you, but the Association of Religion Data Archives will provide the missing religious statistics, with very nice color-coded maps, broken down to the county level). It will also provide mundane demographic information in exactly the same graphic format, which facilitates the identification of correlations. Sadly, the data is getting a bit long in the tooth (it dates back to 2000), but it's still pretty spiffy.