South Park Republican
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"South Park Republican" is a popular term that first circulated in weblogs and articles on the Internet between the years circa 2001 and 2002, used to describe what some modern authors claimed to be a "new wave" or generation of young adults and teenagers who hold center-right political beliefs that are, in general, aligned with those portrayed in the popular American animated television program South Park.
The phrase was coined by commentator Andrew Sullivan[1] in 2001. Sullivan identified himself as a South Park Republican after hearing that the program's creators had "outed" themselves as Republicans at an awards ceremony.
While South Park co-creator Matt Stone is a registered Republican,[citation needed] co-creator Trey Parker is actually a registered member of the Libertarian Party.[2] Stone sums up their views with the comment "I hate conservatives, but I really fucking hate liberals."[3]
In August 2006 Parker, Stone and Sullivan headlined a conference in Amsterdam hosted by the libertarian monthly magazine Reason. During an on-stage interview with Reason editors Nick Gillespie and Jesse Walker, Stone and Parker reaffirmed their discomfort with labels while acknowledging that their political views could be described most accurately as libertarian and rejected the direction of the Republican Party that they described as "more government and more Jesus". John Tierney documented the declaration on the pages of the New York Times a few days later in a column called "South Park Refugees".[4] "South Park Libertarians," an edited version of the interview, appeared in the December 2006 issue of Reason.[4][5]
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- ^ Anderson, Brian C. (Autumn 2003). We're Not Losing the Culture Wars Anymore. http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_4_were_not_losing.html. Retrieved 2007-11-09.
- ^ Winter, Bill. "Trey Parker — Libertarian". Advocates for Self-Government. http://www.theadvocates.org/celebrities/trey-parker.html. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
- ^ Tierney, John (2006-08-29). "South Park Refugees: Republicans can't count on the votes of "Team America"". New York Times. http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_4_were_not_losing.html. Retrieved 2007-11-09.
- ^ a b Nick Gillespie; Jesse Walker (December 2006). "South Park Libertarians: Trey Parker and Matt Stone on liberals, conservatives, censorship, and religion.". Reason magazine. http://reason.com/news/show/36838.html. Retrieved 2007-11-09.
- ^ Grigoriadis, Vanessa (2007-03-08). "Still Sick, Still Wrong". Rolling Stone. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/south_park_still_sick_still_wrong/page/3. Retrieved 2007-11-09. Earlier source where the South Park creators disagree with the term.
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