Very true! I'm in Chester County, which is 1/2 white supremacists, and 1/2 more educated, affluent, and liberal. More diverse, too. The 2nd half is where the university is located. Bucks County is very white.

@Organist1 A few years back I was chatting with my twin and she commented that Bucks County was very diverse, I laughed and laughed and told her it's actually one of the whitest counties in the United States. She did not believe me.
Back in the 1970s the kids I hung around with used to sneak into the park where where Bowman's Tower is. It's at Washington Crossing park in Bucks County. Warren would pick the lock and we'd climb the stairs to the top. Just hang out, smoke some weed and look at the night sky.

@silverotter11 That's a lovely place to spend the evening! I work very close to Valley Forge National Historic Park. That would be a fun, if spooky, place to go at night, too. My son worked in Bucks County for the summer a few years ago, and rented a room from a far-right Trumper who made his life miserable for a few months. I heard quite a lot about that area, and not much of it good.

@Organist1 Bucks County works hard to keep their white far right statis.

@silverotter11 It's too bad. It used to be a lovely bucolic area, with farms and lots of open space. My parents had friends who lived on a farm there in the late 1950s. One time, we went for a visit, and had a terrible snowstorm, with drifts up to their 2nd story windows! We were snowed in for a couple of days. It was lots of fun, and the family was very sweet.

@Organist1 I don't actually remember the snow storm but there are pics of us and the snow. NJ also got quiet a bit in that snow storm. There are still many buccolic areas in Bucks but it is pretty developed with high end homes. River Road it still a 2 lane no real shoulder nice drive but haszardous. The Park at Washington Crossing is still maintained and the drive to New Hope is pretty. At least it all was back in 2007 during my last trip back there.

@silverotter11 I believe the snowstorm was around 1958. I was a tiny kid then, but I still have vivid memories of it.

@Organist1 I was 5.

@silverotter11 I was a couple of weeks away from my 5th birthday. I looked it up: the Blizzard of '58.

Yes, this is mental illness. But yeah, lack of mental health care is certainly largely the GOP's doing.

@Druvius Ever since Ronny Raygun closed the mental hospitals and created the large homeless problem...

@Lizard_of_Ahaz They were supposed to be replaced with halfway houses and community treatment centers, because warehousing the mentally ill in asylums was a big fail. Alas, somehow that never happened.

@Druvius Because it would have cost money.... So the GQP felt that they shouldn't raise taxes on their rich donors just to take care of their constituents... After all Ronny Raygun had just lowered them to ridiculous levels and was already bankrupting the country.
Which incidentally was the sole reason for closing the mental hospitals to begin with.

Why did deinstitutionalization fail?
The reasons for the problems created by deinstitutionalization have only recently become clear; they include a lack of consensus about the movement, no real testing of its philosophic bases, the lack of planning for alternative facilities and services (especially for a population with notable social and cognitive ...Oct 1, 2004

[ps.psychiatryonline.org]

@Lizard_of_Ahaz I am not against deinstitutionalization, but as you pointed out, there are few supportive services for those with mental health issues. It took my son, who is on the autism spectrum, two years to get SSI. He was rejected once, and had to get a lawyer to argue his case. The 2nd time, he won, but only received retroactive pay back to the age of 21, which is when the judge capriciously decided his disability began! Who TF suddenly becomes autistic at the age of 21? If my ex and I hadn't been around to support him during this period, he would have become homeless. Now, at 33, he is totally independent, and works as a surveyor. This is thanks in no part to supportive services, but to his own motivation and our help. F*** republicans!

@Lizard_of_Ahaz Yes indeed, and a corrupt republican judge (redundant)!

@Organist1 Since Clinton both parties have been making these cuts.... What do you think "chained CPI" is but a cut...