Is NY Bernie's home state? Or is it Vermont? He's lived in VT longer than he ever lived in NY, at this point. Which is it?

Bernie has been going around NYC calling it "his city," but wasn't he mayor of Burlington, VT? Why isn't the town he was the executive leader of for many years "his city?"

SHRED

(28,136 posts)

5. I'm 59 years old...

Reply to IamMab (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 10:57 AM

Apr 2016

...every reference to home state I've ever heard is to the state you were from. Where you were born.

TheCowsCameHome

(40,168 posts)

6. Your home state is where you were born.

Reply to IamMab (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 11:00 AM

Apr 2016

Or were you just clowning around? No, wait, on second thought.............

IamMab

(1,359 posts)

7. Well, I was born in Germany and have lived in NJ for over 30 years. NJ is my "home state."

Reply to TheCowsCameHome (Reply #6)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 11:04 AM

Apr 2016

NOT Hesse!

It's actually up to the individual to determine where they consider their home state, not online strangers trying to score points for their candidate.

TheCowsCameHome

(40,168 posts)

17. Yeah, like yourself, on Hillary's behalf.

Reply to IamMab (Reply #7)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 11:22 AM

Apr 2016

BTW, don't you consider Germany your home country? You were born there.

IamMab

(1,359 posts)

18. Looks like Bernie's going to lose his home state.

Reply to TheCowsCameHome (Reply #17)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 11:23 AM

Apr 2016

TheCowsCameHome

(40,168 posts)

20. Yeah, maybe we'll have to settle for second best,

Reply to IamMab (Reply #18)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 11:35 AM

Apr 2016

as usual.

IamMab

(1,359 posts)

24. "2nd best" in a two-person race still makes him the loser.

Reply to TheCowsCameHome (Reply #20)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 12:04 PM

Apr 2016

karynnj

(59,503 posts)

21. He constantly refers to Burlington as "my town"

Reply to IamMab (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 11:36 AM

Apr 2016

and if you bothered to watch his victory speech in Essex Junction, VT, it was very very clear he was speaking to a home town crowd.

People move and do not stay where they were born, but Bernie really has a real home town in Burlington, VT.

It is not really clear where Clinton's home town is. In terms of the place she has spent the most time in - I think it is DC. She lived in the WH for 8 years, with no other home and then for 6 years as Senator and 4 as Secretary of State had both a DC home and a NY home.

I suggest that both could be asked what they consider their home state to be.

Merryland

(1,134 posts)

2. home state is where you were born. always was & always will be.

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 10:55 AM

Apr 2016

KingFlorez

(12,689 posts)

3. She resides there and represented it for 8 years

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 10:55 AM

Apr 2016

amborin

(16,631 posts)

4. carpetbaggers

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 10:55 AM

Apr 2016

George II

(67,782 posts)

8. Do you say that about Sanders, too?

Reply to amborin (Reply #4)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 11:06 AM

Apr 2016

Victor_c3

(3,557 posts)

12. That's my feeling on them too

Reply to amborin (Reply #4)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 11:10 AM

Apr 2016

They left the Whitehouse in 2000 and, instead of returning back to Ar-Kansas, they decided to move to NY for the sake of Hillary's political career. It was strikingly obvious at the time and still is that she was a carpetbagger.

Svafa

(594 posts)

23. Yep, the decision to move to NY was absolutely a calculated

Reply to Victor_c3 (Reply #12)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 11:48 AM

Apr 2016

political move.

randome

(34,845 posts)

9. No one gives a shit about this except you and a few others.

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 11:08 AM

Apr 2016

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Birds are territorial creatures.
The lyrics to the songbird's melodious trill go something like this:
"Stay out of my territory or I'll PECK YOUR GODDAMNED EYES OUT!"[/center][/font][hr]

JoePhilly

(27,787 posts)

19. + 1

Reply to randome (Reply #9)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 11:25 AM

Apr 2016

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)

10. it's where she lives and votes. Unlike the junior Senator from Vermont nt

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 11:09 AM

Apr 2016

GreatGazoo

(3,937 posts)

11. Denial seems to be her natural state.

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 11:10 AM

Apr 2016

NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)

13. What town in Vermont was Bernie Sanders born in?

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 11:11 AM

Apr 2016

I've asked this repeatedly, and never gotten an answer. It would seem that people who are so principled in their anti-carpetbagging sentiments would be so kind as to tell me where in Vermont the Senator was born.

whatchamacallit

(15,558 posts)

14. Fake like every part of her

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 11:12 AM

Apr 2016

RockaFowler

(7,429 posts)

15. My Home State is Florida

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 11:12 AM

Apr 2016

I was born in Connecticut, but that was never really my home state. I only lived there for a few years anyway.
The majority of my life I lived in Florida. That is where I live now. That's why it's my Home State!!!

littlebit

(1,728 posts)

16. I was born in TX

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 11:16 AM

Apr 2016

and spent the first 18 years of my life there then moved to NC. I called NC my home state for 22 years. Now I am back in TX so TX is once again my home state. See how that works.

Blue_Adept

(6,399 posts)

22. Semantics for some

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 11:38 AM

Apr 2016

I was born in RI and my parents move to MA when I was five. I have ZERO recollection of RI and I know that in some form it's considered my "home state" but I just refer to it as the state of my birth.

I don't consider it my home state since I've spent 40 years since then in MA.

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