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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 12:20 AM
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The next time you feel like bashing "the south"...
perhaps you should look at the electoral map.



It isn't just the "Old Confederacy" that is going to the Bush column.

Plus, you should stop and think for a second. In my home state, 45% of registered voters are Democrats. We are a lot more racially diverse than many states.

The people who you should be criticizing don't read DU. Therefore, I have to assume that the only reason you post anti-Southerner posts is to lash out at DUers who are from the South.
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Must_B_Free Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 12:21 AM
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1. We're bashing the southern attitude
pro racist, pro separatist
Not the progressives who live in the south.
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 12:23 AM
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3. Well what you consider the "southern attitude" is based on nothing...
but your stereotypes.

I have a southern attitude, but it isn't what you described.

Why don't you all just quit bashing the south PERIOD. You realize that it is doing nothing but pissing off many of the Southerners here on DU. What good can come of that?

Oh, and what exactly is the attitude that accounts for the REST of the red states going for Bush?
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 12:25 AM
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7. It's probably time for Southern liberals to leave DU.
Edited on Wed Nov-03-04 12:25 AM by QC
We have never been welcome here and I can't see much reason to stick around for the inevitable scapegoating.
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 12:27 AM
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11. I hate to say it, but I am seriously considering doing that.
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 12:31 AM
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15. Same here. Coming to DU used to be a pleasure and a learning experience,
but the place has dumbed down quite a lot in the past couple of years and I can see some very ugly intraparty warfare heading this way.

And besides that, I'm tired of trying to talk sense to the precious, elitist horse's asses who think that it's fun to heap scorn on "rednecks" and the residents of "flyover country" without giving any thought to the consequences.
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THUNDER HANDS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 12:31 AM
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16. I'd say the exact oppose
It's time for DUers to leave the south. Why stay in a part of the country where you know you'll never have a true voice?
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 12:24 AM
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5. Bash the redneck mentality
Look at the map and you will see that the reason there is so much red is because of the rural vote.

It's the rural vote we have to go after and we are paying for it. I"m not saying it's over. It's not as far as I'm concerned. We've still got a night ahead of us, but I was deeply offended by the bashing.
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 12:21 AM
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2. Exactly! Very Well Said! n/t
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MnFats Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 12:23 AM
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4. Most of those upper Midwest states ...NOBODY LIVES THERE...
Nebraska, SoDak, NoDak, MOntana, Idaho....tiny populations...
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 12:25 AM
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6. SO WHAT?
The people who DO live there are voting for Bush. Whom shall you blame for that?
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tjdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 12:27 AM
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9. They have less electoral votes.
I kind of see what he/she is saying.

But the South also turned tail and fled the Democratic Party with the whole Civil Rights thing....maybe that's a factor too???

I don't know. There are plenty of Bushies here in NJ I can glare at, LOL. Don't need to slag whole portions of the country.
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 12:30 AM
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14. How many electoral votes is irrelevant.
Again, they are still red states, but no one ever says that the midwest should secede.

The regional bias on DU and elsewhere in the Democratic party does NOTHING good for the party, and only hurts the party.
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 12:32 AM
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18. Their low population gives them disproportionate power.
Since every state gets a minimum of three elctoral votes, no matter how low its population, those tiny mountain states actually have more power than others with larger populations.
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JHBowden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 12:25 AM
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8. Can I still bash Indiana?
;-)
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Qanisqineq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 12:27 AM
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10. as a resident of a red state
and as a former resident of other red states, I'm sick of the "state" bashing. I've had enough. People seem to forget that these states contain democrats, too and that blue states contain fucking republicans, too. Stop it already. I am so tired of it. Bash republicans in general, not fucking states. It is offensive to those of us living in the red states that are not republicans. All this "such-and-such states should be their own country, get rid of them" -- fuck you people!
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 12:31 AM
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17. Wow, Mr. Doyle.
You have quite the extensive vocabulary.

:eyes:
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 12:34 AM
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21. He's been furiously spamming the same shit all over the board.
Simple pleasures for simple minds, I guess.
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Comadreja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 12:30 AM
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13. The South
is ground zero for this Fundamentalist Bible-Belt mind virus that has been spreading like a cancer to states that were once Plains Populist. The South is the anti-Enlightenment black hole which draws evrything into it. A plague on the South's mindless conservatism! It was never anything but pro-slave and Jim Crow bigot militarist at heart. I grew up there. Of course, there are the Jim Hightowers and Molly Ivinses, but they are at odds with the VOX POPULI of Zell Miller, Trent Lott, Tom DeLay, and the whole sorry swarm of Fundie Puritan theocrats who will soon be trying to tell us in the Blue States how to redeem our sorry pagan souls.:mad:

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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 12:34 AM
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20. Well, why do you think that this so-called southern disease
is spreading to the plains?

Are Republicans offering something to the populace that Democrats aren't offering?

Nice photo. :eyes:
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Moderator DU Moderator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 12:33 AM
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19. Locking.....
Guys, we really don't need this tonight.


Thanks for understanding.


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