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(9,130 posts)/Grew up in Alabama
northoftheborder
(7,575 posts)...in the worst lists
Gothmog
(145,722 posts)Thank G-d for Mississippi and Alabama
rurallib
(62,468 posts)Bettie
(16,134 posts)way our state legislature wants it to go.
Saw the headline yesterday about outsourced medicaid 'saving money'...by not actually paying for services.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)in MS. They had strong black turnout, had "improvement the suburbs," "10% jump" in one big one, but just not enough of them. It's still a heavily rural state, and some areas were very heavy, "Trump-level," support for that dreadfully racist, pathetically incompetent Republican candidate. Even that was probably at least in part more rejection of Democrats than support for her.
Gothmog
(145,722 posts)Buckeyeblue
(5,504 posts)Throw in Alabama, Texas, Kansas as examples of why repug ideas don't work.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,050 posts)in the 60's and 70's, that was sort of the Alabama state motto.
"Thank God for Mississippi"
Polybius
(15,512 posts)Perhaps he would have won in Mississippi.
TomSlick
(11,118 posts)It doesn't provide much comfort but it's the best we got.