Give it up for all of our Southern DUers... Rec this puppy for them

[MrScorpio]

They never get enough respect.

And they do soooo much keeping the flame in Old Dixie.

From the bottom of my Wolverine heart, I love you guys

Show your love too...

:yourock:

[BayouBengal07]

1. Thanks.

Louisiana is firetruck red, but at least New Orleans always goes Dem.

[AspenRose]

2. Kickety

:kick:

[Bryn]

3. Kick

Thank you! :kick: with love from this Southerner

[YOY]

4. Life would suck without Swampy and cheers to Texas DUers like Seabeyond too.

n/t

[yardwork]

5. Thanks from a Michigan fan who lives in North Carolina!

Go Blue!

[iiibbb]

6. We're all Americans.

[Number23]

63. Thank you! The anti-Southern sentiment on this site is pitiful sometimes

It never ceases to amaze me that the folks who howl the loudest about "tolerance" will say some of the ugliest things about other people.

[Bobbie47]

7. Thanks

from Illinois

:yourock:

[Debi]

8. Where's the puppy? You said puppy!!

:cry:

[QueenOfCalifornia]

9. I have a bunch of

fucking moran relatives in Louisiana - Racists and bigots.

But I do appreciate our DUers who are smarter than the people they have to stand next to at the bank.

Peace to all of the Southerners out there who share some great stuff on these boards!

[melody]

10. Boy howdy!

:toast:

[panhead1961]

11. We just moved to SC-

The buckle of the bible belt. More liberals here than you would think. What we have found out is people are afraid to question the McShame campaign about Palin. Kind-of a crowd mentality thing, they are not sure they are allowed to question what the hell is wrong with this woman and why would they choose her. I am hoping that they will vote for Obama but lie to their friends about who they voted for.

[Jackpine Radical]

267. Let's hear it for the Yeldarb Effect!

And for all you DU southerners!

I take back a lot of the mean things I said about you.

Anyway, that stuff was no worse than what I say about the Norwegian Mafia up here.

[treestar]

12. Cheers

For living in red areas and making them purplish!

[musicblind]

13. Aw thank you! :) We're workin' hard to keep NC blue!

Hopefully GA will be goin' us :)

[southpaw]

14. Thanks for the props, Scorpio

This Alabama liberal sees the truth in pretty much all the south-bashing that goes on around here.

I've never heard anyone allege that the southern states are completely devoid of good, committed liberals... only that we are frighteningly outnumbered by mouth-breathing, narrow-minded, bible-thumping bigots.

Which is 100% true.

[downindixie]

150. so true,so true

from the heart of dixie,Oxford,Al.

[semie_21]

242. Absolutely true!

Thanks from Brandon, MS.

[AlbertCat]

265. outnumbered by mouth-breathing, narrow-minded, bible-thumping bigots.

And then there's Kansas


and WY....and OK and NE, ID, UT and AZ......

[SusanaMontana41]

269. Nothing bigoted

about this former Nebraskan. Lots of Dems there, too, but they — like our brothers and sisters in the South — are outnumbered.

Props to Scorpio for this overdue thread!

[bigendian]

15. Thanks

A friend in Boston sent me the Dear Red States letter and I must admit it stung a bit. We are in this together.
In a way, it is fun being able to engage in heated debate with some of the most enchanted Republicans and tell them to their faces that the party they love so well is morally and intellectually bankrupt. "W" is their best and brightest.
My brothers in blue states must live relatively sedate political lives. Pity.

[ccharles000]

16. Hugs from NC.

:hug:

[CADEMOCRAT7]

17. We love you Southern Democrats, keep the Hope alive !

I grew up in Atlanta. I lived there when Jimmy Carter became president. When I was there, everyone around was a yellow-dog democrat. I did not know any differently. I also did not know, until I moved away when I became an adult, that "yellow-dog" is not a nice term. I was shocked when I saw GA go red. Fundamentalism had taken hold, thanks to Karl Rove and Ralph Reed.

[Stevepol]

232. GA never went red; GA went Diebold. It's still blue.

[sonias]

18. We need some respect down here too

Thanks from Texas!


Sonia

[jhrobbins]

125. I think sometime it seems as if we are thought of as one big block

of red voters and we aren't. Now I live in Austin, and I know we are a bit different, but there are liberals everywhere - I grew up in a small Texas town with liberal parents and grandparents. Had liberal friends too.

[AlbertCat]

266. As a Southerner.... I say TX is west, not South.

I just don't think long-horns and prairie dogs and cowboys are the South. That's west....

But of course TX likes to think it's the South, but don't tell the snobs in VA (the "real" VA of course!)



Regionalisms are just stereotypes anyway. Stereotypes have but a grain of truth in them.

[scheming daemons]

19. They're working hard in enemy territory.... K&R for them!

[crankychatter]

44. Washington and California are red states as soon as you leave town

The south is not enemy territory

I beg to differ

America is Purple... as the old Seattle Stranger graphic illustrates, we are an Urban Archipelago

[Muttocracy]

245. yep, New York too. nt

[jahyarain]

261. there's pockets of resistance

and my small town actually leans blue but some of the things these people say...and then turn around and claim 2 follow Jesus. just this morning i had 2 respond 2 an email FROM MY BOSS about socialism with almost ALL of Matthew 25. AND I'M NOT EVEN A CHRISTIAN! still, i follow Yeshua's teachings closer than any Christian i've ever met.

btw, Nashville, TN checkin' in.

[crankychatter]

279. 12 tribes? nt

[Kalyke]

20. Thank you from Tennessee.

It's so much more difficult to live blue in a red state than blue in a blue state.

Thanks for the props.

[northofdenali]

87. AMEN, Kalyke -

And it's become so much more difficult with Palin running.

I love the South - I was born in Florida, where mom still lives; my daughter is a UA graduate (Roll Tide!) and lives near Birmingham. A lot of the holdover racist/bigot mentality is from laziness and ignorance in that area. She works one person at a time, changing red to purple to blue.

Thank you, DU Southerners! Without you, and those like you, the IQ of some states would plummet to amoeba level. :hug:

[Bake]

21. Thanks, MrScorpio! It ain't easy being a Dem in the Deep South

But DU helps us keep our sanity down here!!

Bake

[Arkansas Granny]

59. I'll agree it ain't easy being a Dem. Look at these LTTE in our paper today.

http://www.swtimes.com/letters_to_the_editor/10-22-08/letters01.txt

Can you feel the hate?

[sandnsea]

86. Okay, god bless you guys

I looked at that earlier - gobsmacked. I forget why I left sometimes! To hang in there amidst that, and keep working to make it better, yes you guys deserve enormous credit.

:applause:

[barbtries]

171. the first letter was good

but then came "I must vote for obama," and yes, i could feel the hate. and was nearly knocked unconscious by the ignorance.

[leftynyc]

22. A well deserved kick

I, myself, have been guilty of snobbery when it comes to the south but in my defense, as a New Yorker, I'm pretty much a snob about every other state in the country.

[Jamastiene]

42. yeah, ya'll got the Statue of Liberty

and are the birthplace of some of the best music ever (CBGB's). Lucky dogs. :hug:

[leftynyc]

51. The Lady in the Harbor is mighty special

I remember the big party for her birthday (100th?) in the late 80's. New Yorkers went nuts with that one. And so many good clubs - not to mention theatre, opera (I'm seeing Madam Butterfly tomorrow night), restaurants, etc. I was raised by two NY snobs so I really didn't stand a chance coming out any other way.

[Jamastiene]

52. I've only ever been to upstate NY.

I loved it there too. I'd love to visit the city one day and really get to enjoy the museums, clubs, and do some wonderful sight seeing. :hug:

[leftynyc]

61. The museums!!!

How did I forget the museums?!!! There is currently a Van Gogh exhibit at Modern Art that I still have to get tickets for (it's running until January if you want to make a trip down!!). I love doing the touristy thing now and then. Especially around the holidays - 5th Avenue all lit up, the windows all decorated, the big tree - Oh, I can't wait. I went to school upstate for my first year (Brockport) but after 12 feet of snow, I did the rest of my time in college at Arizona State!! But New York has everything (statewide). Mountains, beaches, beautiful lakes all over. Tis a thing of beauty.

[mitchum]

69. self delete: wrong post

sorry

[AtomTan]

55. Yeah NYC gave us punk

but we gave them blues, jazz, rock'n'roll, country, bluegrass, and American folk music. The South is where American music comes from.

[mitchum]

71. These fine young men from Michigan would disagree with that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuT5kMoYc1w

You are certainly right about the second part, though :)

[foo_bar]

113. hey, what about Gershwin and Aaron Copland, Irving Berlin?

Tho "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy" might lose something in regional translation, any music emanating from the stage and screen in the last century can be traced to new yawk (even Paul Anka). Blues, jazz, and rNr are really African-American inventions, and jazz is a direct by-product of northern cities:

The virulent racism that had characterized American culture in the 1890s began to relax somewhat after the first world war, at least in intellectual circles. African-American migrants, drawn by wartime jobs, found a degree of creative freedom and fellowship in the North unheard of in Jim Crow Dixie. We remember this cultural flowering today as "the Harlem Renaissance," a period when African-American artists, writers and poets produced works that celebrated their own traditions and cultures. In the twenties white Americans found this culture increasingly fascinating, and in New York adventurous whites made their way to Harlem, where they heard jazz bands play in segregated clubs.

http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/hist409/jazz/jazz.html

(on edit: I'd also dispute the punk label, the American form barely tinkers with the British recipe)

[mitchum]

126. Re: punk

that's the difference
American form Vs British formula
And the American form came first; The Stooges, The Velvets, The New York Dolls, Richard Hell, Patti Smith, Ramones,etc were American (not Johnny Rottencomelastelies)

Also
"jazz is a direct by-product of northern cities"
Really, now?
The city of New Orleans and ALL music historians would take exception to that

What? Are you next going to claim that Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner were actually born in the fucking Bronx?

[foo_bar]

138. I'll give you Louis Armstrong, but he's best known by his Manhattan periods

Although I actually prefer the early scratchy recordings. Didn't Tennessee Williams live in NYC most of his life?

[mitchum]

184. Williams lived in NYC for @ 10-15 years...

the rest of the time in New Orleans and Key West

My point was that artists have to move TO NYC because it is a ...ahem...commercial marketplace, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they are FROM NYC. There is nothing special in the water there that nourishes an embryonic artistic soul. It's just a place they have to go to in order to sail their boats.
Jazz for example; none of the significant figures (Armstrong, Parker, Coltrane, Davis, Coleman, Monk, Mingus) were native New Yorkers


Obviously, there are some native New Yorkers who are significant artists...such as the gentleman in my avatar :)

[foo_bar]

197. I still think Faulker and Williams are slightly ironic examples

Although, like Faulkner, Williams spent much of his adult life in New York, his work focuses on the Southern experience.

http://www.etsu.edu/haleyd/twbio.html

I took issue with "The South is where American music comes from" as it struck a similar chord to the chauvinism we've heard lately about real/patriotic regions of America, but even (and especially) St. Louis can't be overlooked in the scheme of jazz, so neither the north nor the south can realistically mount an exclusive claim to "where American music comes from" (as we seem to agree re: the Velvet Underground, even though they might have performed polka or acid jazz were it not for the Mississippi Blues).

none of the significant figures (Armstrong, Parker, Coltrane, Davis, Coleman, Monk, Mingus) were native New Yorkers

Thelonious moved to Manhattan when he was 5 (according to Wiki, I actually thought he was from Philly for some reason, probably "Monk in Philadelphia"; Coltrane apparently moved there in his teens), but Sonny Rollins and Fats Waller were NYC born and raised so I wouldn't say "none".

[MrScorpio]

263. NYC the Birthplace of punk?!? Tell it to the MC5

The Motor City Five http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MC5

[a la izquierda]

166. NJ gets the Statue too...

Howdie to my home state from Oklahoma. Try being a Yankee in Oklahoma. The accent is a dead giveaway and the only thing Okies hate more than Yankees are Californians.

[yesphan]

228. Thanksmuch

A big welcome to you from here in Norman ! As one who has lived here most of my life, I have to say that although many Okies are stereotypical rednecks, we don't all hate yankees and californians. Just the sanctimonious assholes. But then, that goes for texans too. :p

[a la izquierda]

254. Cool. Norman keeps me sane.

It's where I live when I'm not in Mexico... my husband is there now, trying to keep pricks from stealing Obama signs on our street. His NJ accent is even stronger than mine, so the Okies pick us out from a mile away. But we actually do love Oklahoma.

[GinaMaria]

23. ((((((((((hugs))))))))))

[Rhythm]

24. This former Tarheel wishes the folks down home all the best...

Give 'em hell, y'all...

:hi:

[Jamastiene]

45. Woot!

I'm good at giving 'em hell. :evilgrin: :pals: :hi:

[Skip Intro]

25. Thanks from SC.

:toast:

[yellerpup]

26. K&R!!!

You are doing an awesome job! I can't wait for the November Surprise, GA! :dem: :dem: :dem:

[Coexist]

27. Thanks from FL!

[bushisanidiot]

28. Props to southern DUer's fightting the good fight where you're outnumbered.

keep on keepin' on!! :)

[Versailles]

29. Thanks from the heart of the red states - SC. (n/t)

[Lochloosa]

30. Thanks! It's hard down here sometimes.

:toast:

[SeattleGirl]

31. I couldn't agree more!

You guys are often the butt of jokes, and are looked down upon, because of where you live.

I say, thank you! It sure isn't easy being a Dem in the south.

[LiberalAndProud]

32. Shout out to Texas!

:yourock:

[MarthaMyDear]

119. Thanks!

:yourock:

[bookman]

226. Ditto from another Texan!

[demmiblue]

33. Thanks, soblues! How can we possibly have a chance without you?!

:yourock:

[onager]

34. Direct from an expert in Upstate South Carolina...

My mother!

Got this email from her yesterday.

Please don't rag on Mom's grammar/spelling, you will really piss me off. She's 77 years old and still learning the Internets. Not to mention that, like most Moms, she sacrificed more than I will ever know so I could be better educated than her. Though I'm still not sure the poor woman got the better part of that deal.

Edited for possible legal reasons:

I will be glad for the Bush bunch to get out of the office, I don't like either of them running, but I sure don't want Mccain, things are really bad here, car lots are closing down, houses being give back, people can't pay their bills.

A man in PLACENAME REDACTED ran a finance company, last week he got gone, was missing almost 2 weeks, the Sheriff's Dept. an lot of people was trying to find him, he was hid in a big barn in his back yard,(hid behind hay in the back of the barn) NAME REDACTED, an some more people I know had all their money in his company,he paid more interest they said, they lost all they had , he owes about 5 million to creditors.

[PBS Poll-435]

35. Thanks from Texas!

:yourock:

[RubyDuby in GA]

36. Why Sugah...it's just darlin' of you to say this to little ol' us.

Thanks. Sometimes it is hard being the red-headed stepchild of the Democratic party, but we carry on in our quiet desperation like fine southern women (and men) do.

Ok, enough with the Moonlight and Magnolias.

Thanks for the love DU! It really is hard fighting the good fight here sometimes.

[greenmutha]

37. I love our Southerners!

I have spent quite a lot of time in Georgia, Alabama, Texas and Louisiana and - even though they seem to be outnumbered - I have a *bunch* of very Progressive Dem friends down there. Here's to all of you Southern DUers fightin' the good fight! :toast:

[AtomTan]

38. Thanks from NC. We're goin blue this time!

[Jamastiene]

39. Thanks from rural NC.

I love you too, sweet MrScorpio. :hug: :pals:

[Demi_Babe]

40. Thank you. I have worked my ass off here in NC and hopefully it finally pays off.

[crankychatter]

41. crankychatter - smiles serenely - kicks, recommends and leaves no text

[endelfam]

43. Thanks from Texas and just hang on for a few years....

There are growing Democratic pockets in Texas: Austin, Dallas, and soon Houston. In a short time, our population will be majority Hispanic. At that point, the state will be shifting over to the Dem column. Believe me, it's gonna happen.

[Ranting_Wacko]

84. I thought we were already Majority Hispanic?

[AnneD]

106. Houston already is blue...

and has been blue for a while even before Katrina. Mayor White is a Dem.

[WatchWhatISay]

121. Remember, it was only until 14 years ago

that Ann Richards was the governor of Texas. I think we will make big gain this year and will be purple in the no-too-distant future.

[NOLALady]

198. Don't forget

you have quite a few Louisiana Democratic transplants.

[LVZ]

46. Y'all will get free passes to future USA3X parties ...

No VISA required! :toast:

[donheld]

47. It can't be easy being liberal in the south

we should give those that are liberal all the props we can.

[RebelOne]

49. Not easy. Especially in Georgia in the red county where I live. n/t

[japple]

220. Ditto, RebelOne. I live a bit north of you and have been

afraid to put out an Obama yard sign or stick on a bumper sticker. Yesterday at work, all the folks in my department were discussing how Obama was fulfilling the prophecy of the book of Revelations in the bible. They sincerely feel that he is the antichrist, is a Muslim, and is secretly pretending to be a Democrat. They are VERY AFRAID. I may be the only person in the whole hospital who will vote for Obama with the exception of a couple of doctors.

[ceile]

48. Thanks MrScorpio!

Very sweet of you!

[nosillies]

50. Awwww, aren't you a sweetie!

Thanks, MrScorpio, for spreading a little love around. We do try to convert some people down here -- keeps us sharp, actually. I relish the challenge.

[steve2470]

53. Thanks man, you rock

It's not easy being a Democrat in the heart of Fundamentalist Central in Orlando....

Campus Crusade for Christ is here
http://www.ccci.org/about-us/contact-us/index.aspx

[TexasLady]

54. Knowing we can all meet at a place like this

and are surrounded by so many others makes it all worthwhile.
Showin' the love right back..


:yourock: too!!!

[CampDem]

56. Props to Southerners!!

From an Alaskan who knows the deal. You guys fight the good fight down there just like us Northern liberals. We may be surrounded by raving pockets of conservative loonies, but we are still pushing it right up until election day!

:toast: :hi: :kick:

[Kukesa]

57. Here's some Buckeye love! n/t

[renie408]

58. Thanks!

[noiretextatique]

60. kisses from california

:loveya: california is a red state outside the bay area and los angeles. thankfully, i live in oakland.

[eridani]

62. What cured me of anti-Southern sentiment

A National Science Foundation summer student on an archaeological dig with a group in which he was the only black person was refused service at a restaurant--in ILLINOIS! The other tired and thirsty students looked for someplace else, much to their credit. That woke me up to the fact that racism is all over the place, and it might be a good idea to look to my own back yard instead of relying on stereotypes. This was in 1963.

[ncgrits]

64. Bless your heart, Mr. Scorpio (and the rest of y'all too!)

And this Tar Heel loves Michigan! We vacation at Sleeping Bear Dunes Nat'l Lakeshore every year. My husband's family has a cabin near Empire, MI. Beautiful part of the country "up" there!

[Lugnut]

65. Hear, hear!

:toast:

[The Doctor.]

66. Big thanks from this New England Yankee.

:yourock:

[nc4bo]

67. {{Hugs}} we're trying hard down here. nt

[myrna minx]

68. K&R to my Southern brothers and sisters.

:kick:

[TBF]

70. A Yankee in Houston -

Doing what I can in Tom DeLay's old district. It builds character, right? ;)

[AnneD]

107. What doesn't kill you make.....

makes you stronger.

[mmonk]

72. Aw shucks

:blush:

[raccoon]

73. Thanks! I could kiss you! :kiss: Another in SC. nt

[Best_man23]

74. From all us DUers living behind the Red State Lines

I thank you all for the warm feelings and....

Just a little :kick:

[Doodler71]

75. K & R

:dem:

[FloridaJudy]

76. Thanks from Florida

Doing my damnedest to make sure 2000 never happens again!

[Kajsa]

77. To all of you- Thank You!

We appreciate your hard work.

:yourock: :loveya:

[Mira]

78. Thank you - we're working hard to turn NC blue ! I think we'll have it

[bjnumb9]

79. Tennessean checking in - thanks for the love!

:)

[volstork]

80. Thanks

From a Tennessee Volunteer! (although our football team sux this yr)

[OwnedByFerrets]

81. Thanks....I'm as deep in the south as you can get and its

not easy sometimes. I appreciate the love.

[Ranting_Wacko]

82. Thank you.

It's hard being a fighting Texas Democrat sometimes... and I don't think we'll quite get the miracle for the state to Gobama... but I think we just might be able to turn Dallas Blue all around Highland Park... just in time for the Dubya family to move in. :)

[Bubbha Jo]

83. Thanks from Arkansas! I picked up 20 yard signs today

and brought them up to the Democratic Office for my county. We expect it to vote red but we are trying hard!!!!!!!!!

[CottonBear]

85. Thank you from way down south in the blue, blue city of Athens, GA!

You rock too Mr.Scorpio! :yourock:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

88. mucho besos

:applause:

[Cattledog]

89. All the Cattledogs in Georgia say THANKS!!!!!!

to our Yankee brothers and sisters!

[pleah]

90. All ya need is love!

:yourock:, too!

[wryter2000]

91. You bet

It's easy to be blue in Oakland, CA. Our Southern members deserve our respect and gratitude.

[tledford]

92. Thank you from NC! eom

[youthere]

93. Love to southern Du'ers...Bless their Hearts!....

And I mean that in the midwestern Iowan way, not the southern way!

[Flying Dream Blues]

94. Thanks, Mr. Scorpio!

[vanderBeth]

95. Thanks from Texas!

[AnneD]

100. We get blamed for Bush....

and he isn't even a Native.

Thanks for showing us some love....From the very blue city of Houston.:grouphug:

[TheKentuckian]

96. Thanks from a red border state

[liberaltrucker]

97. Thanks! From the Heart of Dixie-Alabama

And from the bottom of my heart. Yeah, it's still a bit tough
being a liberal in the South. But it's S-L-O-W-L-Y getting better.
Plus, Alabama is home:

"If it ain't Dixie, it don't feel quite like home
My Southern blood runs deep and true.
I've had good times North of the Line
Got a lot of Good friends, too.
But if it ain't Dixie, it won't do.
-Randy Owen, Jeff Cook.

[Hyper_Eye]

187. Sometimes it can feel hopeless being blue in AL.

But there is hope. It looks like my district (05) will elect another dem to the house (Parker Griffith) to replace our outgoing dem (Bud Cramer). It looks like a longshot for Vivian Davis Figures but my vote will be cast for her. Things are looking up all over this country. leftinalabama.com definitely helps to provide like minded locals while DU helps me feel like a part of the national progressive community.

[sofa king]

98. From Robert E. Lee's bedroom right back to all of you!

[Faygo Kid]

99. MSU 24 UM 10.

But I do recommend the thread.

[Snotcicles]

101. Love Ya'll. One nation. nt

[crazy_vanilla]

102. thanks, there are many more of us now

in Old Dixie

Times are a'changing

[Jawja]

103. and I Thank you, Wolverine.

From the bottom of my Bulldawg heart. :pals:

[alison]

104. Many, many thanks from central NC!

[tledford]

127. Welcome to DU! Central NC?

Let me see, how literally should I take you? Southern Pines? West End? Or the Triad? (Greensboro here...)

[alison]

179. Raleigh

I realize that "Central NC" is a bit broad...probably should have been a bit more clear in my initial "thanks" post :)

[RedLetterRev]

208. Shout-out from just northeast of the Triad here

in Blue Caswell. Lots of rural Dems up here.

We've gotten a lot of positive comments from Republicans on our "Vets for Obama" stickers on our pickup and car, saying they've had enough of the chimperor. Well, I'll be. There's hope yet.

For the rest of y'all, NC is a lot bluer than you think. We typically have a Dem governor and State House. It's pretty progressive for a southern state. The arts are alive here and so are southern graces.

And we do appreciate the love! :grouphug:

[barbtries]

173. welcome to DU

from raleigh nc

[crossroads]

105. Thank you from deep South Louisiana!

[Stump]

108. Thanks from VA...

We're gonna turn this state blue this year!!!

[NorthCarolina]

109. Thanks, and I think we're gonna pull it out here in NC for Obama

:bounce:

[machI]

110. Thanks from Florida, we will be sending Allen Boyd back to the House

I am doing what I can to put Florida into the Obama column of electoral votes.

[Piewhacket]

111. YO Dixie! :applause:

:applause:

[ThatsMyBarack]

112. I dedicate you this song!

Hope ya like Tom Lehrer! :patriot: :loveya:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAwhC_btAUU

[Laelth]

114. Thank you.

:dem:

-Laelth

[Minimus]

115. Thanks from Asheboro NC! We are working hard to turn NC blue!

[tnlefty]

116. Thanks! It isn't easy being one of the blue dots in a

sea of red. We work our asses off and get defeated in elections more than we're successful. I'm sick of being ruled by republicans on the local level, but we've gained some ground. The state level is always a fight, the federal level....ugh.

It's always a fight, though.

[bvar22]

117. Thanks from a Deep Blue homestead in the reddest county...

...of a Dark Red State!

[rateyes]

118. Thank you. nt

[ClayZ]

120. Hello, Southern DUers

We love you all!

Keep up the GOOD WORK!


K and R

[NikolaC]

122. Kick

:kick:

[NikolaC]

123. Dupe Delete

[Unbowed]

124. Dixie Blue!

:kick:

[psychmommy]

128. thanks you southern dems

50 state strategy can't work if all states aren't working. you guys keep up the good work. can't stop until we get dems in white house, senate and the house.

[brer cat]

129. A lot of Georgians

have Obama on their mind. (Apologies to Ray Charles)

Looking for a big Nov surprise here!

Appreciate the love, MrScorpio.

:thumbsup: Obama :thumbsdown: Saxby

[rainbow4321]

130. Thank you from North Texas!!

We're trying!! Maybe at sometime in the future we will be considered at **least** a battleground state and get a rally like the ones we see on TV in the real swing/battleground states leading up to Election Day! It was cool to see TX Dems actually "matter" on the national level back in the primaries! We ARE down here :-)

[BrklynLiberal]

131. One more Kick and Rec

[Island Blue]

132. Thanks MrScorpio.

I'm hoping in less than two weeks we'll turn North Carolina blue and make you proud :hug:.

[Triana]

133. For a fellow Wolverine

I'll do it. And because I moved from Michigan to the Deep South and part of the way back and know some damn fine Southern Democrats, I'll do it.

[CitizenPatriot]

134. Thanks, Mr Scorpio!

from a former Michigander, now living in Georgia! We're turning Georgia purple and maybe blue:-) The people here worked SO hard on the campaign. Thanks for the props!

[leecanes]

135. Gracias

Steve 2470 is right - it's tough being a progressive in Central Florida. Good news is that we seem to be turning more and more blue every day.

(From a first time DU poster...)

[barbtries]

172. welcome to DU!

[musicblind]

136. Rec number 100

:kick:

[EFerrari]

137. Yes, sir!

:yourock:

[BobTheSubgenius]

139. A BIG shoutout to anyone that can keep the faith in a political environment like that!

[charlyvi]

140. Alabama DUer here.

Thanks, Mr. Scorpio. Sometimes it gets rough in here.

[dudewheresmycountry]

141. Born and raised is

Southern Virginia, left as soon as I could, lots of respect for the DUers who put up with their shit , God knows I could not do it... keep on keeping on.........

[Liberalatus]

142. Thanks from TN!

Although my soul was probably supposed to be born out in CA, I was for some reason implanted here. All I can do is try to make the biggest impact here before I am able to go "home", lol.

[bonito]

143. It's rough

Every time I see a W bumper sticker what it really means is W thinks for me! or Rush thinks for me!

And now those McCain signs are from fearful white people of a man of color as the president, or who work in the defense $industry$

The first two have not realized their free thinking potential, the last are just plain greedy. :shrug:

[jules1962]

149. Thank you from east Tennessee

I come here to deprogram daily. It is not that hard being a liberal in a red state to me. I think it energizes and inspires me to be more informed and focused on the issues that are important to me. Whenever I talk politics with friends,neighbors,etc. I often find that they are clueless on what is really going on in the world. It feels good to leave them questioning what they hear from the wingnut side. I do find that almost everyone that I work with is voting dem this time and many of these people have voted repug their whole lives. Y'all keep up the great work and just remember that when we are celebrating on 11/04, there are a lot of dems in the south that are shedding tears of happiness too.:grouphug:

[Sheltiemama]

276. Another thanks from East Tennessee!

[Hip_about_time]

144. Thanks Scorpio

...it aint easy yall.

[politicasista]

145. Thanks from TN

And thanks to you and other fellow southern DUers. :kick: :hi:

[Kerrytravelers]

146. I tell you, I think you all don't get the credit you deserve.

I live in such a blue bubble.

Blue family (the only republicans are my in-laws, but they don't live near us and I don't speak to them very often, and never about politics)
Blue career (education)
Blue city (suburb of Los Angeles)
Blue county (Los Angeles)
Blue state (California)

Hell... it's a blue region... California, Oregon, Washington... and maybe even Nevada!



You all that are surrounded by the stupid sure have my respect. However, it may not be too bad. Remember, you do live in the pro-American parts of this country! :patriot:

:rofl:

[localroger]

147. Thanks from the NOLA area

My wife early voted today, and I will on Saturday. (No foolishness, but then the R's think they have this area sewed up. Whatever.) We live in one of the reddest districts in Louisiana, which will probably be the one holdout state if Obama pulls a 49 state EC landslide. As the Rude Pundit wrote recently, no wonder nobody talked about Katrina at the debates. Oh well, we keep the candle burning anyway...

[reger60]

148. Greetings from Nashville! Go Obama!

[AlabamaBrightBlueDot]

151. Thanks... From the state of Alabama

[slypknot]

223. Another one for AL

[Mister Ed]

152. Puppy!? Where?

I love puppies!!

:loveya:

[TygrBright]

153. It's easy being blue when your neighbors are, too...

...not such a cake walk when the neighbors might well have been at last night's white sheet parade.

Bless you all. Don't think I haven't noticed the slow transformation, the inch-by-inch stubborn progress back to the best the South can be. We are cheering!

'Cause, after all, we NEED places where ya can still get an RC and Moon Pie at every truck stop.

::wink::

appreciatively,
Bright

[tledford]

176. Living in NC all my life, but urban...

...I can't remember the last time I saw a Royal Crown cola, or a Moon Pie (waxing nostalgic...)

Of course, I can't remember the last time I stopped at a truck stop, either, not being a trucker. Late '70s, maybe?

:-)

[MelissaB]

154. Thanks from an Alabama girl who moved to Michigan a year ago.

:kick:

[Highway61]

155. I sure do appreciate you

a big THANKS!

[stuntcat]

156. hey y'all! Cheers to NC!

NC's gonna make me so proud!!!!! :bounce: :party: :bounce:

[Dr. Death]

157. Thank you from NC

Those of us who live in red states fight too, and do what we can to educate the next generation and turn these states blue.

Thanks for the acknowledgement, Mr. Scorpio, I've always enjoyed your posts.

:yourock:

[man4allcats]

158. Many thanks from Houston!

I know I speak for all right-thinking, left-leaning Southern DUers in expressing my appreciation for your thoughtfulness. What a guy! :toast: :toast: :toast:

[whathappened]

159. go get them dixie

thanks

[smubossirossi]

160. Thank you

I am a life long texan and love this state. Its hard being so heavily outnumbered but thats soon to change. With senate candidates like rick noreiga who are going to help change the face of texas politics he is a true democrat. kos had a great story on texas turning blue http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/22/1782/7331/691/638996. I was glad to cast my vote for obama, I know he wont win texas this time but i sure am gonna make it as close as i can. Dallas love to all my fellow texans.

[annabanana]

161. Oh LORD yes!

I am in awe of the blue dot in the red sea...

[AllieB]

162. Here's to our Southern DUers.

:toast:

From your very Yankee neighbor in Massachusetts. :-)

[fascisthunter]

163. Kudos from Bawston

[stoge18]

164. to my friends in the South

Keep up the fight!
:dem:

[thevoiceofreason]

165. Thanks from Houston!

[paparush]

167. Lifelong Southern DUer here..says THANKS!

:-)

[a la izquierda]

168. Thanks Mr. Scorpio

from a transplanted Blue Stater now in the great red state of Oklahoma, but in the little blue town of Norman. Yippee!

[tekisui]

169. NC in da house!

Thanks, we're gonna turn it blue.

[barbtries]

170. thanks from NC

even if i am still a californian in my heart...:)

NC goes blue in 2008!!!!!!!!!!!! yeah

[McCamy Taylor]

174. A thread for me! Thanks from Texas. Living in a red state is sad sometimes.

[9thkvius]

175. Thanks from a little blue dot in Alabama

all of us blue dots in red country appreciate the sentiment. :D

[Flaxbee]

177. Asheville NC: 98% of new registered voters are Dem. or "unaffiliated"

14,000+ new voters in Buncombe; 98 percent Dems or unaffiliated
NEWS
David Forbes | 1 day, 5 hours ago

According to statistics released by the Buncombe County Board of Elections, 14,415 new voters have registered since early February. The vast majority (98 percent) of the new voters are registered as Democrats (7,355) or unaffiliated (6,765). The number of registered Republicans stayed roughly the same, going up by 186 new voters.

http://www.mountainx.com/news/2008/over_14000_new_voters_in_buncombe_mostly_dems_or_unaffiliated



Yes, Asheville is a little liberal beacon in western NC, but dayum - we're still deep in the Bible Belt - the Southerners here are trying!

:hi:

[proud patriot]

178. Southern Liberals Rock

:yourock: :headbang:

[Soup Bean]

180. You from TN

[Dystopian]

181. From Massachusetts with love, and a big KandR!

:yourock:

peace~

[beachmom]

182. Thanks! From Georgia.

[suzie]

183. Thanks from northwest Florida

We're all working every day in the midst of a sea of red to turn Florida blue.

[John Q. Citizen]

185. I'm not a Southerner. But sometimes I wish I were!

I was born in Southern CA though I suppose that doesn't count.

[Indenturedebtor]

186. I came in here to look at a puppy :( But Rec for you fried food brothers and sisters :D n/t

[black light poster]

188. I'm Southern but I don't blame the rest of the country for being tempted to give up

on the South completely sometimes, because frankly most of it seems pretty much beyond redemption, politically, to me, too.

Obviously, the enlightened and the unenlightened both live side-by-side scattered all throughout the country, in every state, so sweepingly panning the entire population of any region is so inaccurate as to be ridiculous. But I am more than ready to acknowledge that our demographic ratios down here -- I'm a native Virginian (and both my parents were Tennesseeans) -- skew noticably worse in the direction of "anti-fancy book learnin' and damn proud of it" than any of America's other regions do. I feel like I know willful ignorance when I see it. And I categorically refuse to defend or excuse it.

Now, true, we definitely do have an authentic and distinctive "sense of place" down here -- something novelists relish and misguided romantics in other regions sometimes seem to envy. Let's be clear: there is an awful lot about the southern "regional personality" that is not to be admired.

I'm honestly on board with those folks who opine that the South should be a separate country. The rest of you really did screw up in 1861. The smart response would've been "Secede? Sounds good to us! Don't let the barn door hit you on the way out!" I suspect, though, that damned hotheaded South Carolina's having started a shooting war at Sumter closed whatever remote possibility that might have existed for a peaceful secession; once you're shot at, any nation has to shoot back.

But the issue definitely should be re-opened, in my view. An actual majority down here, I think, really do want a theocracy, and they are going to stay as pissed and hostile and disruptive as hell for as long as they don't have it. The rest of America, sanely, is going to have none of that, though. So what's left to do? Do we want the hateful Culture War to go on forever? I'd vote for letting the numerous Southerner agitators have their theocracy. Call it the New Confederate States of Christian America. If the South doesn't secede from you Northerners, then you should simply secede from it. Let this part of the continent go without universal health care forever if that's what the residents of the CSCA want. Let it discard Social Security and so much else. Let it treat its less privileged people like shit. Let the CSCA be xenophobic, among many other kinds of -phobic, and puffed up with military bravado, belligerence, and foreign interventionism. Let it play, within reasonable limits, the ridiculous international bully. Let it live out all of the many terrible ideas that seem to be in such common currency down here.

It's not like the rest of you didn't try to help. You did, for centuries. Many down here have thrown every form of social progressiveness right back in your faces, and called you godless socialist babykillers for your trouble. Some people, living in some places, just don't want to be helped, thank you very much. I honestly think everyone would be better off if the South were simply allowed to go its own, very colorful and distinctive way in the world.

Of course I know it's not really likely to happen, anytime soon anyway. But, if I had my druthers, that's how I'd solve a whole slate of long-term problems that seem unlikely to ever be resolved any other way.


These ramblings probably are are too strong of opinions to be voicing on just a 2nd post. But, oh well. (I will throw in that I do have a sense of humor about it all, too, if that's any help.)


I should get back to the intended purpose of this thread. Yes, I understand and agree with the immediate goal: Let's keep the energy up and deliver my state of Virginia, and North Carolina, and Florida, all three into Barack's EV column on Nov. 4. My yammering ideas about splitting the nation asunder into two (wisely divorced and happier) countries will keep until after we elect Obama.

[MrScorpio]

190. Welcome to DU, black light poster

Yammer on!

[NOLALady]

200. I dunno.

If they are unhappy with this country, they can always leave.

If they choose to not try and change this country for the better, I'd rather see them leave than destroy this country.

[DeepModem Mom]

189. Heroes and heroines, all! nt

[JDwho]

191. South Carolina here! Thanks for the props

I'm certain everyone knows that it's almost dangerous being a Dem in the South right now, but it is worth it if the result is Bush-out and Obamao-IN!!!! Wooo Hooo!!!

[my2sense]

192. Thanks from Texas

:hi:

[DonCoquixote]

193. Thanks from Florida

I will happily tell you the early voting is in FULL SWING. The polling places here look busier today than they did on Nov 4, 2004.

Now, I will not lie, The MCCain folks are braying like donkeys, whipped into rabid frenzy by these hateful mega-churches we have down here. However, there are a lot of people who are for Obama and being VERY open about it, something I did NOT see last time for Kerry. Then again, we have a lot of people who thought they were middle class up until recently, when they got their wake-up call courtesy of foreclosures and outsourcing to India. It also helps that Charlie Crist, in his quest to get the VP nod, did everything short of offer MCCain his liver as lunch. I can tell you that McCain is probably really regretting choosing Sarah P. here, as she is exactly the sort of woman that ticks a lot of the locals off. Her arrogance is hayseed enough to tick off the urban types, and somehow way too uppity to be accepted by the rural types. The only people she carries are the church crowds. The flip side of this is that if the GOP wins this state, it will ONLY be because the Church types showed up, so Sarah can play that card for 2012. Also, this is the home of the PUMA. I hate to be mean, but we do have a ton of "liberals" who feel Hillary must be avenged, and that Obama equals some sort of apocalypse where Israel is destroyed. Joe Lieberman played well to this crowd, and actually was a sort of deal-sealer.

Memo to Connecticut, can you PLEASE punish that Benedict Arnold? You know if anyone in Congress turns sides, it will be that little worm. I would call him a whore, but whores earn their money. Joe is at best, a low grade pimp!

[KatieB]

194. Thanks from NC where in my neighborhood

No one put out any signs out of politeness of the other. Than when the first Repug sign went up two Obama's went up across from him. At the other end of the street one family had up two Repug signs. They disappeared. The next day there was one Repug sign in its place and the neighbor's Obama sign had been torn to shreds. On a sidestreet, off the one just described, the neighbor said four years ago he mistakenly put a Kerry sticker on his favorite car and woke up one morning to find his fender smashed in with a bat. So he's holding off until election day until he puts his sign out in his yard; and likely will not put an Obama sign on his car...We are going through an historical change here.

[Vickers]

195. Another "thank you!" from Florida.

Sometimes it's hard coming to DU with all of the anti-South stuff posted. I've got a pretty thick hide, but it does get to you.

FTR, I don't TECHNICALLY consider Florida the South (I'm from Georgia originally), geography notwithstanding.

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Vickers]

196. P.S. Rec #137

:P

[bjobotts]

199. Congratulations...to all five of them

[NOLALady]

201. Merci.

[The Traveler]

202. As a proud son of Georgia

who learned to shoot before he learned to read ... like, thanks, Scorp.

And lemme tell ya ... Georgia is a little bit in play this year. My. What a refreshing change.

BTW if you ever find yourself in the Atlanta area, I will definitely buy you a beer.

Trav

[shireen]

203. did someone say puppy?

Seriously ... thank you Southern DU'ers. :yourock:



BTW, while I was looking for a puppy pic to post here, I found this silly but funny text that came with the picture. The website is http://frecklescassie.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/puppies-at-the-white-house/

A boy selling puppies out of a little red wagon camps out in front of the White House…George Bush, delighted at the boy’s entrepreneurship, strolls out to speak with him. “Say, what kind of puppies are those?” says Bush. “Republican puppies, sir,” says the boy. George Bush, delighted with the boy’s response, hands him a ten-dollar bill.

A week later, the same boy with the same puppies camps out in front of the White House again. Sensing a possible photo opportunity, George Bush approaches the boy again. “What kind of puppies were those again?” asks Bush. “Democratic puppies, sir,” says the boy.

Bush says, “What? Last week you said they were Republican puppies.” “Yes sir,” replies the boy, “but they’ve opened their eyes since then.”

:rofl:
it's silly, but i love it. :)

[Granny M]

204. Thank you, Southern DU'ers

What I love the most about Southern Liberals, like dear Molly Ivins and Ann Richards, may they rest in peace, and Jim Hightower, and Bill Moyers, and others, and not to mention all my liberal friends in Mobile, is their ability to keep their sense of humor and their optimism against all odds while deep in enemy territory. I get way to morose about things, and I have a lot to learn from them.

[democrank]

205. Here`s to you, Southern DU.

~PEACE~

[wiley]

206. I love Southerners. Here's the story.

I was treated so kindly and well by everyone I met as a poor college kid stuck in Biloxi 30 years ago I thought I had died and gone to Heaven. I was fed and housed and storied - y'all can talk some interesting stories - and for almost 100 days traveling back North to Syracuse and no one would take a penny from me because they knew I didn't have any and they relished the opportunity to treat a guest as family. And I'm talking both the black folks and the white folks that just reached out to me like I was their kid. One night I was sleeping on a bed with the older son in a family who really couldn't afford to send the 18 year old to college and he put the only blanket he had on me because it had gotten a little chilly. I could see the guy was both freezing and sleeping. So I put my coat on and put the blanket back on him and when I woke up the whole family was standing around watching me sleep. The guy's father - former Coast Guard guy like my Dad - was so impressed he invited me to Charlotte whenever I was in the area - and he said he would always treat me as a son. This was heady stuff for a kid born a few blocks down from Springsteen in Jersey - poor but taught right by my parents that you treat strangers of any type as guests and with respect. It was a tough racial era back then and blacks and whites were not getting along great in Central Jersey and there I was bedding with an 18 year old guy who was a black guy who looked like a professional athlete who was just kind and cool and grateful I was there. I just didn't really get it and had I not had to sleep with my older brothers (not a bad thing in the winter, really) for most of my young life I think i would have flipped out. Sure enough when I got back to school - having lost almost 6 weeks of the semester, I got the older son a junior custodian job at my college. Somehow my dad and his dad figured out how to get the college to do that. Don't you know that kid spent the next ten years studying like crazy - he never git tired and never lost his charm or his deep accent either - and got accepted to medical school the same year I finally did. And he's been my best friend for 30 years. His grandma from Southern Alabama sent me peach pies and the best ham I have ever eaten for for almost fifteen years after that up until she died. Which only forced my grandma to hand crochet me slippers for me and my friends for years. I can't tell you how much I appreciated everyone I met from the South and how they became part of my live. Sure, they'd all say don't mind that drunkard or that ill mannered group of people when we encountered some fools, but most people never see past those to the wise, generous, polite and hospitable people I met. And God Bless every granparent because we wouldn't have so many geeat kids and grandkids running around without them. That's just a fact.

[Hekate]

207. I so appreciate what you are doing. With love from California,

:yourock:

Hekate

[democracy1st]

209. K & R

[Moody]

210. East Coast Thanks you! nt

[txwhitedove]

211. Wow! Another thank you from Houston.

:hi:

[BlueCollar]

212. Tarrant County, Texas here...Thankyou!!!!

[Papagoose]

213. Been in Polk County, GA for a little over a year now...

it's a big change from Philadelphia, but I'm thinking of it as Missionary work - bringing the Democratic word to the people, and hoping they don't kill me in the process!

[jschurchin]

214. K&R

Some of the best people in the good ole USA. My southern friends rock!!!!:toast:

[BlueGirlRedState]

215. Thanks from Waco

I think we need a secret handshake.

[Orsino]

216. I'd like to give it up for all you yankee DUers.

It can't be easy, knowing you're not southern and probably never will be. :hi:

[get the red out]

217. Thank you from a Kentuckian

Mitch might just get ditched here! That would be great news! I know a lot of liberal minded folks here in Lexington, but I think there is hope for our state bubbling up in other areas. My folks (lifelong Dems that are McCain's age) live in the eastern part of the state, the Appalachian region, and they brought a friend to Lexington this week for a Dr. appointment and I met them all for lunch. This little lady was a fire-brand for Obama, she just LOVES him! After we talked for a while over lunch my Dad pointed out that she was a lifelong Republican too. The lady told me about some conversations she had with people at her church, folks that won't make the preacher mad by saying they are for Obama, but when they found out she was they made sure to talk to her. I have hope that people are starting to slowly wake up!

And to my Vol friends from Tenn. in the posts above, the SEC is weird this year! But despite half the UK defense getting injured against Ark, GO BLUE (a phrase that works for me in all areas of life right now)!

[Reeta77]

218. Kick & Thanks from Houston!

We're holding it down in Houston, trying to turn Texas BLUE :kick:

[TornadoTN]

219. From a proud Tennessean - thank you very, very much!

We're going to turn this state blue soon, and once we do, we're never turning back!

[Th1onein]

221. Why, thank you!

From a Texan! Me and my big mouth have been working on turning Texas blue for the last eight years! I was loudly proclaiming Bush to be an idiot son-of-a-bitch in public places long before it was acceptable to do so. I'm a lifelong Leftie Liberal and damned proud of it!

[Iwillnevergiveup]

222. Godspeed from Los Angeles

I have no doubt - the South is returning blue. Thanks to people like y'all.

[SIMPLYB1980]

224. Thank you so much for your kind words and support!

[SeaLyons]

225. Thank you, and a big kick from Georgia..n/t

[SacredCow]

227. Thanks, K, and R from Louisiana....

I love all of you Northerners, too- I just refuse to live anywhere that digging my car out of the snow is a distinct possibility! Snow is for SKIING- Not digging!

:hug:

[JackDragna]

229. Ugh. I feel embarrased.

I live in Louisiana and this state is in such a state of disarray thanks to conservative politics. I hardly feel worthy of any thanks pushing the rock uphill forever here. I love the state and its good-times attitude, but I despair how lost it is politically.

[NOLALady]

241. Did you see this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLvgwHGlpdQ

There's hope.

[lonestarnot]

230. Woohoo!

[zanne]

231. Where would we be without you? thanks! nt

[Burma Jones]

233. Y'all got a tough row to hoe

It's damned easy being a Democrat here in Maryland......

Keep the faith baby........

[Mabus]

234. Thanks from a transplanted Jayhawk

currently living outside of DC.

[OlWiseRedEye]

235. Thanks!

Believe me, it's not easy...

[evilbeth]

236. I appreciate the sentiment!

A proud East Tennesssean (and relatively new DUer) doing my part to try to make TN purple.

[kimmylavin]

237. Yay Southern DUers!

From a former East Coast liberal (NJ) and a current West Coaster (Los Angeles)!

Keep on fighting the good fight - and thank goodness you know which one that is! :bounce:

[Deep13]

238. It can't be easy.

:kick: :thumbsup:

[peace frog]

239. As a native of Flori-duh

your appreciation is very gratifying. We Floridians still suffer paroxysms of guilt for the Great Florida F*ckup of 2000. Thank you all for your forgiveness!

[dakdirty]

240. Another Native FL boy echoes those thoughts...

This time, we'll get it right.

[NoSheep]

243. Thanks! Durham NC here and I've been rebutting lies as hard as I can.

:toast:

[Roon]

244. The south was my favorite place to drive when i drove truck

I loved the food, the people were cool. You know, a TRUE redneck doesn't bash gays. If you are a cool person, a true redneck will accept you

[DemoTex]

246. Thanks MrScorpio! Greenville, SC, here .. an uphill battle.

But it is a battle we choose to fight!

[Chrisnreno]

247. K&R

[JNelson6563]

248. Hear, hear!

Thank you Southern DUers for keepin' the faith and staying true to the cause. You work against overwhelming odds and we should all be grateful to you. I know I am.

Julie

[DeSwiss]

249. Thanks!!!

Nashville, TN

[supernova]

250. Thank you MrScorpio from Durham, NC

Being from the South is indeed hair-raising at times, but it is my home and I try to make it a better place than when I found it.

:pals:

Michigan rocks too. :D ;-)

[sarah FAILIN]

251. I'm the only blue dot in this red state is how it feels sometimes

I go to a local board and try to keep the lies in check and there are a couple of other dems there with me, but for the most part it's all reps. I have been threatened, been accused of being a rape victim of my father, called every name in the book and endless other insults. I just wonder how these supposed Christians can talk like they do and still go to church on Sundays. I will be so glad when this is over, I think I'm going to take a vacation that week after I vote.
Thanks for thinking of us stuck in republican hell. ;)

[MrScorpio]

255. Welcome to DU, mZ Failin

Stay strong!

[sarah FAILIN]

264. Thanks

I'm holding on and doing better since coming here. The local board is anonymous so they can't figure out who I am and as long as I keep it that way I'm good

[tledford]

256. Oh, bummer. You live in a small town? Maybe down East?

It's not quite so bad in the larger towns. Guilford, Forsyth, Wake, Durham, Orange, Mecklenburg, New Hanover and Ashe counties all usually go blue by a few percent. Some VERY rural counties in the northeastern part of the state and in the mountains go blue, too.

Where do you live?

And welcome to DU!

[sarah FAILIN]

262. deep deep south.. Alabama

Family and work is here but that's about it. Thanks for the welcome, if it weren't for DU I would be stuck.

[Tikki]

252. Thank you my Southern brothers and sisters...

Hello from another South...Southern California.

:hi:
Tikki

[Arctic Dave]

253. Kick for catfish and cold beer.

[Lifelong Protester]

257. Sorry, too late to reco, but I send my fond regards anyway

we NEED you, and it can't be easy being Dem in some of your states. I applaud your commitment!!

[ghurley]

258. Thanks from NC

[GreenInNC]

259. Even us that went to App. State?

Still have the Sports Illustrated cover up on my wall from the App State - Mich game last year.

[OKDem08]

260. Thanks from OK!

[intheflow]

268. Swamprat, merh, Lisa0825, babylonsister...

BOSSHOG, FLyellowdog, mth44, varkam, maddezmom, Lone_Star_Dem, RagingInMiami, HeeBGBz, Hissyspit, tnlefty, gulfcoastliberal, WestHoustonDem, ncrainbowgrrl, seabeyond...

I'm sure I've forgotten a zillion people, but these are all Southern DUers I have had great experiences with both on the board and in person. Having worked and lived in Mississippi for a while, I know it's incredibly hard to be a liberal Dem in the South, but these folks do it with grace and fortitude. I have much appreciation and affection for our southern DU brothers and sisters!

:patriot: :hug: :toast:

[bjnumb9]

270. I'm so tired of receiving Repub. FWD emails!!! (Tennessean)

The latest claimed the following passage came from Audacity of Hope:

"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

The following is my Reply to All (I don't know half of the damn people on the list):

***

Obama did not make the statement attributed to him in this email.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/ownwords.asp

The actual passage from his book is as follows:

“In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”

Hopefully none of you would be for the renunciation of Arab and Pakistani Americans’ citizenship.

This BS trashing Arabs and Muslims as if these terms are synonymous with the word terrorist is growing tiresome.

Would you renounce the citizenship of this woman who gave her son because of her faith? That is the definition of un-American.

Please exclude me from any forward emails such as this garbage.



Damn I grow tired of having to let these people in on how friggin' ignorant and gullible they are! Just had to vent...

[Capt. America]

271. Thanks from Northern Kentucky...also known as Ohio.

Although I agree with your politics, I disagree with your team. Blue is a great color for politics, bad for football.

See you in November ... tOSU 34 / scUM 10

[dgibby]

272. Thank you! It isn't easy being blue in SC................1

[VaYallaDawg]

273. Many thanks from VA - I think we're officially purple now.

[mnhtnbb]

274. NC is officially light blue! Check out Electoral Vote

http://www.electoral-vote.com/

[texastoast]

275. Thanks from Montgomery County, Texas

78% straight Republican ticket in 2006.

It won't be so high come November.

I gaaaronteee it.

:toast:

[Butterflies]

277. Someone in Virginia thanks you!

I have lived in Virginia for ten years, and I'm THRILLED that we will be turning BLUE this election! It's hard to live here in the "good American" part of Virginia sometimes, but it'll sure feel good on Nov. 5th!

[crankychatter]

278. have i kicked this hummer lately? nt

[SteveM]

280. Thank you, suh, from Texas by way of Florida (nt)

[LatteLibertine]

281. Thank you!

Born and raised in Virginia and lived eight years near New Orleans LA. I'm a Democrat and proudly support Senator Obama.

Over the years I've been seeing real progress and things that give me hope. The trouble making haters are a distinct minority that get smaller with each passing day. It helps many are ancient and simply dying off :P

In closing, "Yaller dogs bark!" :)

[WillyT]

282. Hey... I'm From South Sacramento, LOL !!!

:evilgrin:

K & R !!!

And... :grouphug:

Much love and props to our friends down South!!!

:yourock:

[BamaLefty]

283. oBAMA

Holdin' it down.

[childslibrarian]

284. I am from North Carolina

I love you guys, you are the best.
:hi: