10-08-2016, 05:07 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-08-2016, 05:09 PM by Anthony '58.)
But speaking of Donald Trump and all things Russian, could Russia - and specifically, the Far East of Russia - be where millions of conservative Americans would emigrate to if they lose this election, or the 2020 election, or a Second Civil War - the way the "Confederados" emigrated to Brazil after the original Civil War?
Think about it: Dating back to the Czarist days, the Russians have been desperately seeking to develop their Far East region - Vladivostok, Nakhodka, Komsomolsk-na-Amure, etc. - and Southern American immigrants would give them the manpower to do it. Oh yes, the emigrants would learn Russian and the Cyrillic alphabet - but they would remain proud Southern Baptists or Pentecostals rather than embracing Russian Orthodoxy, and maintain their virulent anti-black and anti-gay attitudes.
Think about it: Dating back to the Czarist days, the Russians have been desperately seeking to develop their Far East region - Vladivostok, Nakhodka, Komsomolsk-na-Amure, etc. - and Southern American immigrants would give them the manpower to do it. Oh yes, the emigrants would learn Russian and the Cyrillic alphabet - but they would remain proud Southern Baptists or Pentecostals rather than embracing Russian Orthodoxy, and maintain their virulent anti-black and anti-gay attitudes.
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892