Today in the beginning of class, Mariah got infront of the class earning two bonus points for trying the European map. The rest of the class with Mr. Bruns started to study for the Europe map. Can't forget to study! After that we continued discussing what makes a Democrat a Democrat and a Republican a Republican. Tea party people believe that the government needs to stay out of our lives. More of the core beliefs are deficit spending will end, reduce bussiness income takes is mandatory, english as core language is required and political offices available to average citizens. A site that this was found on is : http://www.teaparty.org/about.php#beliefs
Some things that are important not all Democrats or Republicans agree on all issues with their party. The next thing we discussed was media bias--Fox News vs. CNN. Media is more liberal. Democrats hate Fox News, but in general newspapers, t.v. shows, and many other media base institutes tend to be more liberal, the way they should be. We also discussed how where you can live can affect what party you belong too. Iowa is seen as a flip flop state. We are known to be more conservative, but we were one of the first states to accept gay marriage which is more liberal. In the cities a lot of working class people are Democrats. For the longest time African Americans voted Republicans because of slavery and for them to be free(Abraham Lincoln.) They now vote for Democrats, because FDR came out with new deals to help the poor which would help them out more than the Republicans would. The most of people in western and eastern America go for Democrats. The midwest and the southern of America manly go for Republicans. That pretty much summoned up what we did today.
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