HOLY CRAP! I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING REALLY SCARY!!!!

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

I HAVE NEVER BEEN TO A BLUE STATE IN ALL MY BORN DAYS!

NEVER!

NEVER IN MY LIFE!

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

I went on a LONG road trip this summer and STILL I have never been to a blue state.

Oh my. Here's where I've been in the US: Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, and South Dakota.

:cry:

So THAT'S what's wrong with me! I keep thinking maybe I left my keys or my purse somewhere, I keep feeling like I'm an alien from another planet. I keep wondering what the world is like "out there."

That's why. I've never left this country and I've never been to a blue state, ever. In almost 34 years. Oh this is truly sad. I must recitify this as soon as possible.

Do I get hugs? I'd fit in much better in New York City or Portland, Oregon. I WAS BORN IN THE WRONG PLACE!

[pagerbear]

1. Come to NYC, Moonbeam!

We'll show you a good time!

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

8. It is me and Little Moonbeam's dream to go to NYC

maybe next year we can. We wanted to go there this year for her tenth birthday in early December. Go on a carriage ride in Central Park, ice skating in that Rockefeller place, eat at a fancy restaurant, all the people watching, ah.

Sigh.

We dream of it. She and I have even planned it out before. But alas, airfare is high.

[msturgis524]

2. I'm in a blue state - MN

I'm still surrounded by them.

[Lefta Dissenter]

3. Awwwwww, Moonbeam

you can come visit me anytime! :pals:

[nickgutierrez]

4. Just an idea:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x1938675#1941260

:)

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

10. AHHH!!!!

YOU JUST REMINDED ME!!!! I ONCE WENT TO CHICAGO ON A BUSINESS TRIP!!!

[nickgutierrez]

12. That doesn't count. n/t

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

15. It doesn't?

:cry:

[nickgutierrez]

16. Business trips aren't fun. n/t

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

21. True

and I stayed at some skanky hotel out at the other airport. Midway or something?

I did notice food was a lot more expensive.

Oh I rode the L train into downtown, does that count? I had no idea there were parts of Chicago that looked flat out third world, but they did.

[nickgutierrez]

23. Yeah, Midway

There are quite a few parts of the city that are pretty 'third-world', mostly on the south side. I would imagine it's the same way in pretty much every major metropolitan area, sadly.

Food is pretty expensive here unless you find the right places, that is true.

[Fovea]

5. Go visit San Francisco

and take a deep breath of free air.

[Lavender Brown]

6. Come to where 80% of the population voted Kerry...

come to NYC! (That should be our new tourism commercial).

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

18. It really should be

I used to say "How New York City votes is how America should vote. They got hit the hardest, so we should follow THEIR lead."

It never caught on as you can tell.

:(

[ogradda]

7. come to the pacific northwest

you can stay at my house! we'll go to starbucks!:loveya:

[DrZeeLit]

9. Deprived, but certainly not depraved. Come on up to VT!

Wow! You certainly have advanced beyond your borders.
Bravo, but really, GET OUTTA THERE!

[icymist]

11. Come to Seattle....

be with friends. Drink Late's and curse at the evil, bright, shiny orb rising in the East in the morning!

[mrbassman03]

22. Hell, yeah! And what's a late?

Sorry, couldn't resist. I am a fan of latte's though.

[icymist]

28. A late is a drunken Latte.

Hmmmm. A late latte, that is.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

13. False alarm!!! False alarm!

Higher in the thread, antiwarrior reminded me of something: I once flew to Chicago for two days for a business conference!

I had yummy pizza and did all the touristy stuff and saw Oprah's big high rise.

Sorry! Whew, I do feel a bit better, but damn, I need to get out more, don't I?

Feeling a bit claustrophobic in this great big state...

On edit: everyone who offered, if I had the money I would fly to each of those places and chill with you guys. God what it would be like to be with liberals who can be all out in the open about it, what a breath of fresh air THAT would be.

[WindRavenX]

14. MA beckons

Rumour has it you'll go gay here, but I can't prove that for sure :P

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

17. If I haven't gone gay

yet I don't think it'll happen though I'm certainly open to new horizons.

Mr. Moonbeam might be a tad disappointed, unless I were bi! LOL!

[WindRavenX]

19. I dunno...

....Romney said so. He said the entire population of MA would turn into a giant sea of homo-sex-uals.
And if we can't trust Romney, who CAN we trust???

[MyUncle]

20. Hawaii is GREEN, all year long.

[demnan]

24. Come to Washington, D.C.

Bluest City in the whole U.S. (Kerry - 90%, Bush - 9%)

[Sin]

25. You should come up to Pa

We could have a Du get together at Hearshy park
or Knoebel's ( another theam park smaller but really nice)

Best thing about knoebel's is you can sign up large groups and get use of there pavillions for haveing picnics and get group discounts on ride passes for the day.
( you dont pay to get in you pay per ride you get on with little ticket books you buy)

would love to see a bunch of du people come up to PA and huge get together :) heck if we get bored we can always throw some repukes into the mine fire beneath Centralia :)

[klook]

26. Once you go Blue

you'll never...um...something that rhymes with blue.

I've spent a lot of time in several of the Red states you mentioned. They all have their charms, but there's nothing like a progressive place to energize the spirit. NYC is a must. Also Portland is cooler than words can convey. Seattle is right up there. Chicago, too. I feel a song coming on. "Can't forget the Motor City"....

[ET Awful]

27. Come visit me in Mass!!!!!

I need some visitors :)

Boston is beautiful.

[Thegonagle]

29. Minneapolis is a wonderful little town. ;-)

Most of Minnesota's old-school "classic" republicans aren't even all that extreme, in that they don't piss me off nearly as much as the repuke clowns from so many other states.

No, Gov. Pawlenty and Sen. Coleman are not representative of the Minnesota "Independent Republican" party. (I believe MN repubs changed their party name to "Independent Republican" in the 90's to distance themselves from the Delays and Gingriches in Washington.)

Coleman and Pawlenty only got elected because they talked the MN IR talk; unfortunately, they walk the new extremist "I don't give a fuck" Washington Republican walk. We need to get rid of them! (That buck-tooth shit-grinning slime-fucking Coleman isn't even from Minnesota.)