I walk around this area about 3-4mi most mornings so observing yard signs, bumper stickers, and flags is a long time hobby. For context, this is Elijah Cummings old district, Cummings is the politician I've voted for more times than anyone over the past 20 years. He was replaced by Kwasi Mfume, who actually held the seat before Cummings …
I walk around this area about 3-4mi most mornings so observing yard signs, bumper stickers, and flags is a long time hobby. For context, this is Elijah Cummings old district, Cummings is the politician I've voted for more times than anyone over the past 20 years. He was replaced by Kwasi Mfume, who actually held the seat before Cummings once already and is a former NAACP head. Registered democrats outnumber registered republicans in this district about 4 to 1 and it is majority black & brown demographically, though in general Baltimore is still pretty segregated a lot of the time. When I'm not dodging the rodents infesting everywhere, my observations go something like this.
BLM - I stopped counting at about 30 or so yard signs. They are everywhere, obviously. There is one house that covered all their windows with cardboard and wrote in bold marker a variety of things such as 'white silence is violence', names of people killed by police, etc. I saw another that was 'matters is the minimum'.
Joe Biden - I counted about a dozen yard signs. Usually next to a BLM sign.
Trump - there was a single Trump flag for a while, but I guess they got sick of their neighbors hating them because now it's been replaced with an American flag. There's about 3-4 'Dump Trump' flags as well around.
Bumper stickers - these are a little more varied. A lotta ACLU. A lot of Warren or Bernies, but more Warren overall, in what I'd describe as the 'whiter' streets around here. I know I've seen at least 10 Biden bumper stickers personally, but again this district is about as strong as it gets as far as Obama/Biden era popularity goes. I saw one old truck with something linking Obama to Bin Laden, but I think they may have missed a memo. I'll see an occasional Infowars. I don't have time to list the rest of the incredible variety of totally crazy and hilarious ones I have seen over the years. But that's mostly because crazy and hilarious is not a terrible descriptor for this city in general.
I walk around this area about 3-4mi most mornings so observing yard signs, bumper stickers, and flags is a long time hobby. For context, this is Elijah Cummings old district, Cummings is the politician I've voted for more times than anyone over the past 20 years. He was replaced by Kwasi Mfume, who actually held the seat before Cummings once already and is a former NAACP head. Registered democrats outnumber registered republicans in this district about 4 to 1 and it is majority black & brown demographically, though in general Baltimore is still pretty segregated a lot of the time. When I'm not dodging the rodents infesting everywhere, my observations go something like this.
BLM - I stopped counting at about 30 or so yard signs. They are everywhere, obviously. There is one house that covered all their windows with cardboard and wrote in bold marker a variety of things such as 'white silence is violence', names of people killed by police, etc. I saw another that was 'matters is the minimum'.
Joe Biden - I counted about a dozen yard signs. Usually next to a BLM sign.
Trump - there was a single Trump flag for a while, but I guess they got sick of their neighbors hating them because now it's been replaced with an American flag. There's about 3-4 'Dump Trump' flags as well around.
Bumper stickers - these are a little more varied. A lotta ACLU. A lot of Warren or Bernies, but more Warren overall, in what I'd describe as the 'whiter' streets around here. I know I've seen at least 10 Biden bumper stickers personally, but again this district is about as strong as it gets as far as Obama/Biden era popularity goes. I saw one old truck with something linking Obama to Bin Laden, but I think they may have missed a memo. I'll see an occasional Infowars. I don't have time to list the rest of the incredible variety of totally crazy and hilarious ones I have seen over the years. But that's mostly because crazy and hilarious is not a terrible descriptor for this city in general.