What region of the US/country are you from?

I'm always see to where people from the DU are coming from. After you vote, reply with your state/area.

:hi:

I was born and did a twenty-year sentence in SW Ohio. I have since lived in a very liberal county of upstate New York.

I'm interested in voting purposes. Which county is very liberal in upstate New York?

Home of Cornell University.

but I've lived in all 50 states, was raised in NYC, and consider Maine my home.

Republicanland.

argh...

Though I live in Florida now, I lived there for 15 years. Before that I was a Navy brat.

Upstate NY. Raised in NW Ohio.

Oklahoma

I moved to Virginia (metropolitan Washington, DC area) in 1982 to run from a broken heart. Bertha and I moved to Maryland in May, 2001 and we love it here.

Look at all those red staters! Awesome to see you all here gang. You're drowing out us Upper Midwesterners. :hi:

and I'm actually getting very interested in the politics of Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota. I've read that the people in those states are socialists but also live by guns, God, and gays. A populist candidate can override the triple G's in many cases. Senator Dorgan for example. Is that how your new governor won? Could you tell me a little abou the politics of Missoula and Montana?

Missoula is very liberal especially in comparison to many of the towns and rural areas in the State. It's a college town.

Montana as a whole has a very progressive history coming out of the age of the copper barons who had a strangle hold on politics. The eventual labor movement backlash led to a very liberal electorate.

The population changes in the last 20 years has changed this. We have seen in influx of conservative voters "escaping" to MT from all over the country. The East is sparse and losing population and the West is growing fast.

I live in Western MT and the differences between here and the eastern part of the state is dramatic. I think MT as a whole is more comparable to WA and OR than to SD or ND. The West tends to be much more liberal and the East much more conservative, and the historical economic mainstays are extractive industry such as mining and timber, and Ag. Tourism is now very big and growing.

Eastern MT is much like the Dakotas.

The 2004 state elections went like they did for a few reasons.

Our last Repub Governor, Judy Martz made a lot of ethically questionable decisions and scandals and her approval ratings were in the high twenties (she didn't run this time)and the Democratic candidate (Schwiezter) ran with a moderate Republican for Lieutenant Governor.

The economy is a basket case after 16 years of purely Republican rule. They rammed through energy deregulation which has been a disaster, just one of many blunders.

As for taking back the state senate and the big gains in the legislature, MT does redistricting every 10 years and it's traded back and forth between the Repubs and the Demos. In 2002 it was the Demos turn and this is the first election with the new districts.

MT has one of the countries most progressive constitutions, it was redone in the seventies. Among other good things, we have an explicit right to privacy and an explicit right to clean air and water. As a whole I would say that guns trump both God and gays.

Hope that gives you a little insight.

That helps out quite alot. Keep on fighting!

look at all of you! damn! get off the internet and drive in your volvos to your ski resorts while drinking lattes to stay warm! and take your affluence and high IQ's with you!

I just have the northeast and internet bit. *sigh*

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not my birthstate of Oklahoma (we were there all of a month, maybe less)

and not my state of heritage (not sure what you call it....it's where my parents and three generations before them are all from) - Montana

The longest I've ever been in one place is four years (4 yrs in San Diego, 4 yrs in San Jose and now 4 yrs in LA). California is the state I've spent the most number of years in (culmulativly, that is). It's home to me.

Born in Massachusetts, moved to California, moved to New York City, moved back to California (all this before the age of 5), moved to Oregon 30 years ago...

Counting military service toss in Texas, Mississippi, Colorado, Idaho.

Sadly, I'm in Bergen county, which is that big northern one that always goes red.

Warren County goes red, too

too bad about Anne Wolfe, huh?

Scott Garrett, though... oi. I feel for you.

quit corporate in CT
finding myself in VA

so I post to the poll as VA

VA

it's part of the West when crime rates are up in LA, South when crime rates are down and when it votes Democrat

I don't understand your post, please explain.

the Bluest part of Colorado.

I'm on the midcoast, where are you?

But no biggie. I'm originally from Florida and felt more comfortable selecting that option, the South. If Nevada had been included, too much thought required:)

My bad, sorry about that Awsi.

The BLUE part of Michigan.

grew up in CT

now live in PA

also have live in these states: VT / NH / VA / AT*


*AT = state of Atlanta which is different than state of Georgia

I flew in to live in AT in 1980 and flew out in 1985. When I traveled, I did so by air. I rarely traveled outside Atlanta into the intellectual wilderness known as Georgia.

nt

A solid Democratic stronghold.

the pacific northwest. it's beautiful here i'm lucky :)

Shout out to all my Illinois peeps :)

We're Philadelphia at one end, Pittsburgh at the other end, and Alabama in the middle

Unfortunately. :D

actually, transplant from New Hampshire when I was a child.

College in western PA

Now live in southern NH ....

probably in Canada next year :(

Born 'n' raised!

accurately be caled Appalachian states. The culture is similar yet different from the "South."

If you can count Western PA as northeastern. And I'm not so sure I'm elite, either. But I AM liberal!

I'm studying in Puerto Rico now. I figured I should go by where I'm registered to vote, since I move around so much.

Many more of us here than you might suspect.

The Professor

originally from Arkansas though

:smoke:

and boy are my arms tired... :D

I'm originally from Vermont.

hotspot of liberals and progressives/major, major sarcasm

I never have lived outside of Maryland