That's a very simple treatment of sweet potatoes that I wouldn't have thought of - will come in handy next week.

Ahh, red states. The vast uninformed republican voting base. Why don't the pundits ever point out that the poor, lower middle class, low education, welfare and food stamp receiving members of the 47% are more likely to be republicans than Democrats? Red state politics is not the realm of exclusively successful entrepreneurs and executives, it includes this sea of stupid you refer to.

Almost every person I have met who was receiving welfare or food stamps voted republican and gave as their motivation for doing so; gay rights, abortion or christianity. The republican dog whistles work exceedingly well in red states.

1%, RW media and local grifters and politicians. RW media is worst culprit in what is political
self mutilation.


Having a southern Thanksgiving this year. This recipe will fit right in.
Have a good one.

And before people attack me, I live in a red state ... I see it first hand. The people in red states are some of the dumbest, most uneducated voters you'll ever come across. I see it with my dad's family, people I don't associate with, who grew up poor but would never vote for a Democrat because they're socialist secularists.

Some of the dumbest people I have ever met live in red states. They are simply morons. They believe Obama is a Muslim. They believe he was born in Kenya. They believe he's a socialist. They don't have a pot to piss in, but they'll still vote Republican because, well, who the fuck knows? These are people who can barely wipe their ass, let alone string together a sentence. They're idiots. They live in a fantasy land where they make shit up. The founding fathers were all Christian pastors ... this country has always been a nation of God and only God and Democrats are always against God.

The only thing worse than a dumb person is a dumb person in a red state because I think it only amplifies their stupidity.

like fox and rush would change their mentality? Kenyan, Socialist, birther bullshit is all
RW media talking points.

Everyone has a computer and can get on and spew their ignorance and hatred, but the caliber
of person you describe, I wonder if they even vote. I doubt they could tell you the name of the
Vice President.

The Democratic hate really started with the expansion of talk radio and the likes of Rush Limbaugh. That continued with FOX - but I also think the availability of the internet has made it worse. Because we're so connected, it's easier to spread BS than it was 20 years ago. Think back to the firestorm we saw from Ron Paul's racist newsletters from the early 90s. Back then, back when they were written, how many actually even knew they existed? But today, everything is so widespread, social media makes it easier to spread the lies and hate and push an agenda.

Just look at Facebook. I see it all the time from my dad's red neck clan who've decided they hate Obama (and they hated Clinton too, but it wasn't nearly at this level). It's a big reason my father stopped associating with his side of the family because they were all right-wing nut jobs. Today? I have his sister on my FB and all she does is post anti-Obama bullshit that has been debunked. This shit wouldn't have hit the main stream a decade ago. But now it is. That's the scary part. As the internet grows, so does the hate because it's easier to connect and spread.

True

I honestly believe racism is a factor. The Nixon southern strategy was based on gaining support for angry racists in the south who left the Dem party because of the voting rights act. They also view the Democratic party as the northern yankee party, this may be latent anger from losing the Civil War. The south did not like change back then and they don't now so conservatism is right down their alley. The sad thing is that they are following a mixtue of religous zealotry and bigotry and not true conservatism. The people around work in factory labor jobs but support candidates that would destroy their livelyhoods.