re: #163 ipsos

I grew up hearing my grandmother and aunt speaking Yiddish around the house when they didn’t want der kinder to know what they were saying.

Never seemed like a big deal to me then, or now.

In my hometown of Ambridge, PA you walked a couple blocks where everyone spoke Greek, Italian, Russian, French, Serbo-Croatian. Didn’t matter.

Broke my heart to see a New York Times article about how Ambridge fell under the spell of Trump. When I left in 1982 the whole of Southwestern PA was solidly Democratic. Now only Pittsburgh remains as a Democratic island in a sea of deep red. My home town now has a Republican mayor and council, the County offices are all held by Republicans and they have the legislative seats as well. Right Wing Jesus is alive and well in the whole area…