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2014-12-09 -Land of the Free
What The Left Really Thinks About The South
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Posted by Grunter 2014-12-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 Think of it as both a legal and cultural divide layed out by a couple of fellows from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, UK. I'll use this old marker stone to explain.
Posted by Besoeker 2014-12-09 01:59||   2014-12-09 01:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Fine. Then we'll go back being to the Republic of Texas. And keep our oil. We really don't need you.
I thought you liked us down here.
We are friendly, just don't piss us off.
Posted by texhooey 2014-12-09 04:42||   2014-12-09 04:42|| Front Page Top

#3 These people just can't deal with not getting their way.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-12-09 04:48||   2014-12-09 04:48|| Front Page Top

#4 the state of Maryland just elected a republican governor and one of the reasons was the voters recognizing the need to stop high taxes in Maryland pushing the successful people and businesses to the free capitalist South. The left should be worried about giving up the South.
Posted by airandee 2014-12-09 06:19||   2014-12-09 06:19|| Front Page Top

#5 The thing is, presidential candidates are developed through the political farm system. Without learning how to handle the rough and tumble of q political campaign, and the rougher and tumbler of of being in government at the state level, if not the local level, one doesn't develop the skills and the resume to win and then govern at the federal one. Some of the issues the voters have with President Obama stem from the fact that he was pushed through too fast, and lacked both the skills and rolodex to do the job he was given.

So by given up that farm system in most of the country, the Democrats are accepting being the opposition into the foreseeable future.
Posted by trailing wife 2014-12-09 07:45||   2014-12-09 07:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Here's the problem, TW. The way things are right now, the Dems have an absolute lock on 240 electoral votes. These are states that will not vote for a Republican for president even if the Democrat admits to being a Nazi who kills puppies for fun. So that means that they only need to win enough states to get 18 more electoral votes to win the presidency. Conversely, it means hat the Republicans must win essentially every swing state or they have no chance at all of winning the presidency.

As much as I like your idea about the Dems being a permanent opposition party, the reality of this seems to indicate not. As long as there are populous states where 50% +1 people who depend on public funding to have food and shelter and status, it will always be an uphill battle for Republicans.
Posted by no mo uro 2014-12-09 08:09||   2014-12-09 08:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Should read "28" votes not 18.
Posted by no mo uro 2014-12-09 08:10||   2014-12-09 08:10|| Front Page Top

#8 What The Left Really Thinks About The South

Or anyone else who lives outside the artificial word of the urban bubble.
Posted by Procopius2k 2014-12-09 08:20||   2014-12-09 08:20|| Front Page Top

#9 world
Posted by Procopius2k 2014-12-09 08:20||   2014-12-09 08:20|| Front Page Top

#10 I believe the southern states had the same idea quite so.e time ago. Anyone remember the civil war.
Posted by chris 2014-12-09 08:30||   2014-12-09 08:30|| Front Page Top

#11 Well, I saw Mike Tomasky write about her
Well, I saw ol' Michael put her down
Well, I hope Mike Tomasky will remember
A Southern man don't need him around anyhow
Posted by Matt 2014-12-09 09:28||   2014-12-09 09:28|| Front Page Top

#12 The thing I remember about ex-Sen. Landrieu was right after the Louisiana Purchase and her constituents called her offices to complain. They couldn't get through and Mary claimed her phones were down.

James O'Keefe snuck into the offices and discovered the phones were working. They just weren't answering incoming calls. Mary's response was to try to prosecute O'Keefe.

Mary Landrieu had a conservative rating of 20%. Her predecessor had a rating of 40%. She was a left wing senator in a red state. She did not represent her people. She should have been gone long ago.
Posted by Frozen Al 2014-12-09 11:02||   2014-12-09 11:02|| Front Page Top

#13 If the south is "Dixie" how come only those stores in the north are "Macy's"?
Posted by Fred 2014-12-09 11:50||   2014-12-09 11:50|| Front Page Top

#14 Before the Civil War 80% of Government money came from Southern states. I've lived in Boston and the overt racism was worse there than in Birmingham, Alabama. There were very many really good people in Boston and the surrounding areas but the very small racist population was very vocal. Reminded me of Alabama in the 50's and 60's.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2014-12-09 11:59||   2014-12-09 11:59|| Front Page Top

#15 Juxtapose this with California, solidly Democrat, saying "damn the torpedos, full speed ahead".

I would threaten to move my little family out of the state again, mom and dad being professionals, but what would be the point. They don't care, they'll replace my family of three with a family of 15 illegals that cant speak english, write in any language or support themselves in the rat race.
Posted by bigjim-CA 2014-12-09 13:18||   2014-12-09 13:18|| Front Page Top

#16 "trans-racial community" was one of the "secular values on which this country was founded"? in what alternate reality was "trans-racial community" one of the "secular values on which this country was founded"? Seems to me the only trans anything community was a 'trans-religious community", Maryland was Catholic, Pennsylvania was Quaker, New England was Puritan, etc, etc. That's why the Constitution makes such a big deal about freedom of religion; no state wanted other states to be able to gang up on it and impose their religion on them. But "trans-racial"? Everyone in the country was pretty much ENGLISH or AFRICAN, and we all know how that "trans-racial community" was organized. That is presumably not the model "trans-racial community" the nut-brain writing this article endorses as a foundational "secular value".
Posted by DLR 2014-12-09 13:30||   2014-12-09 13:30|| Front Page Top

#17 South needs to take this seriously and charge up their economies like Texas.
Posted by rjschwarz 2014-12-09 15:25||   2014-12-09 15:25|| Front Page Top

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