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srican69

(1,426 posts) Thu Oct 17, 2013, 03:21 PM Oct 2013

I am starting a pledge ...please join me.

I hereby pledge not to denigrate people from the southern states here on DU forums. I understand that every state has its share of assholes & bigots, some more than others, and also understand that there are good democrats everywhere. People from regions where democrats are poorly represented need our support and not our derision. I will not hold people geography against them implicitly or explicitly through my comments here on DU.

I absolutely and positively will refrain from region based discrimination and will pledge to make democrats from all state feel welcome here on DU.

-- Signed

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I am starting a pledge ...please join me. (Original Post) srican69 Oct 2013 OP

I am the OP .. I am signing first srican69 Oct 2013 #1

I don't do pledges. Wait Wut Oct 2013 #2

But we can still denigrate people from the other states here on DU forums? Right? Okay. ( n/t ) Make7 Oct 2013 #3

Of course! Especially at primary time. bunnies Oct 2013 #8

Don't even get me started on all those corn-fed corrupt morons in Iowa. ( n/t ) Make7 Oct 2013 #11

lol. You nailed it. bunnies Oct 2013 #14

Hey, I resemble that remark. progressoid Oct 2013 #16

I hope I have never done that. Jackpine Radical Oct 2013 #4

I am going to try and be more careful with my words when making comments about that quinnox Oct 2013 #5

Have tried to live by that for a long time rurallib Oct 2013 #6

I will not have my denigrating restricted ...... oldhippie Oct 2013 #7

All broadbrush generalizations should cease 1000words Oct 2013 #9

Does Arizona count as a Southern state? panader0 Oct 2013 #10

K& R n/t Dalai_1 Oct 2013 #12

See, if you signed that "Southern Yankee", THAT would have been funny. JoePhilly Oct 2013 #13

I will trash Texas all I damn well please Skittles Oct 2013 #15

srican69

(1,426 posts)

1. I am the OP .. I am signing first

Reply to srican69 (Original post)

Thu Oct 17, 2013, 03:21 PM

Oct 2013

Srican69

Wait Wut

(8,492 posts)

2. I don't do pledges.

Reply to srican69 (Original post)

Thu Oct 17, 2013, 03:23 PM

Oct 2013

I also don't do broadbrush attacks, so I'm good.

Make7

(8,543 posts)

3. But we can still denigrate people from the other states here on DU forums? Right? Okay. ( n/t )

Reply to srican69 (Original post)

Thu Oct 17, 2013, 03:23 PM

Oct 2013

bunnies

(15,859 posts)

8. Of course! Especially at primary time.

Reply to Make7 (Reply #3)

Thu Oct 17, 2013, 04:05 PM

Oct 2013

I just love living in NH during primary season on DU.

Make7

(8,543 posts)

11. Don't even get me started on all those corn-fed corrupt morons in Iowa. ( n/t )

Reply to bunnies (Reply #8)

Thu Oct 17, 2013, 04:11 PM

Oct 2013

bunnies

(15,859 posts)

14. lol. You nailed it.

Reply to Make7 (Reply #11)

Thu Oct 17, 2013, 04:16 PM

Oct 2013

progressoid

(49,992 posts)

16. Hey, I resemble that remark.

Reply to Make7 (Reply #11)

Thu Oct 17, 2013, 06:26 PM

Oct 2013

But I don't eat much corn anymore.

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)

4. I hope I have never done that.

Reply to srican69 (Original post)

Thu Oct 17, 2013, 03:23 PM

Oct 2013

If I have, I apologize. There are good people everywhere, and we all need each other to much to let geographism get in the way of our uniting in common purpose.

quinnox

(20,600 posts)

5. I am going to try and be more careful with my words when making comments about that

Reply to srican69 (Original post)

Thu Oct 17, 2013, 03:27 PM

Oct 2013

I realize that sometimes some good progressives are sensitive and can take things the wrong way when duers, like me, say negative things about where they live.

rurallib

(62,433 posts)

6. Have tried to live by that for a long time

Reply to srican69 (Original post)

Thu Oct 17, 2013, 03:53 PM

Oct 2013

I come from Iowa - home to King and Grassley.
They have created an image for Iowa that we try to live down all the time.

oldhippie

(3,249 posts)

7. I will not have my denigrating restricted ......

Reply to srican69 (Original post)

Thu Oct 17, 2013, 04:04 PM

Oct 2013

Sorry.

1000words

(7,051 posts)

9. All broadbrush generalizations should cease

Reply to srican69 (Original post)

Thu Oct 17, 2013, 04:07 PM

Oct 2013

panader0

(25,816 posts)

10. Does Arizona count as a Southern state?

Reply to srican69 (Original post)

Thu Oct 17, 2013, 04:08 PM

Oct 2013

Seriously, there are good and bad people in every state. State bashing (they got what they deserved for allowing that jackass to be elected) is not cool or mature. We're all in this together, North, South, East and West.
Signed, a liberal Democrat in Arizona.