They're affirming their status in America's winner-take-all system.
In the early '40s, the Texas Legislature even passed a "Caucasian Race Resolution," which affirmed their status as white.
That cherished anonymity looks to have been fatally compromised now, but the fact that the Wachowskis were ever able to achieve such a publicity blackout doubly affirms their status: few film-makers have the negotiating power to do so, but also, the Wachowskis no longer require publicity.
Conclusions Around 0.5% of women consistently affirmed their status as virgins and did not use assisted reproductive technology, yet reported virgin births.
Both Chicago and Los Angeles, in addition to New York, Boston, and others, affirmed their statuses as "sanctuaries" after Donald Trump's election and in the weeks since his Jan . 25executive order cracking down on immigration.
The existence of both C100 and C109 ribotypes in the homogeneous condition affirms their status as diagnostic of separate Symbiodinium sub-clades (i.e. neither sequence represents a degenerating pseudo-gene).
By re-marking their latrine, residents are thought to affirm their dominant or resident status (Black-Decima and Santana 2011).
Following Trump's election, more than 100 cities including New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, and Austin have affirmed their "sanctuary" status.
These ingredients became known as GRAS substances and were permitted to remain on the market, although in later years subsequent reviews of the safety of many of the grandfathered GRAS substances were undertaken and the USFDA affirmed their GRAS status.
