East Coast
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East Coast is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between July 08, 2022 and October 29, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “he’s a moneyed East Coast elite”; “the drug was first introduced on the East Coast”. It most often appears alongside 1968 convention, 1976 Democratic, 1976 Democratic primary.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: July 08, 2022
- Last seen: October 29, 2024
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Related Pages
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- 1968 convention (1 shared issues)
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- 1976 Democratic (1 shared issues)
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- 1976 Democratic primary (1 shared issues)
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- 1976 primary (1 shared issues)
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- 1979 oil crisis (1 shared issues)
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- 1980 (1 shared issues)
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- 2010 (1 shared issues)
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- 2014 (1 shared issues)
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- 2016 (1 shared issues)
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- 2019 (1 shared issues)
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- 2021 (1 shared issues)
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- 2022 (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
The Ted Kennedy of this book is not a sympathetic character. His primary challenge is driven mostly by his hunger for power and his personal dislike of Carter. Kennedy personifies the Washington establishment that Carter ran against; also, he’s a moneyed East Coast elite and he basically sees Carter as a southern hick. Kennedy had wanted to run for president the last time, in 1976, but that had been too close to the Chappaquiddick incident, when he drunkenly drove off a bridge with a woman he may or may not have been having an affair with, and left her to drown while he swam away [4]. (The affair is now mostly known for inspiring a similar plotline in Succession’s first season.) In the 70’s, you could send a woman to her death with your drunken negligence and get away with it—at least, you could if you were a Kennedy—but you did have to let it recede into everyone’s memory for a couple years before you ran for president.
California is slightly behind the curve – the drug was first introduced on the East Coast – but clearly following the same trend. In fact, grim as the situation here may seem, California is actually outperforming most of the country: our rate of drug fatalities per capita puts us at 35th place.
Inline links: 35th place