[Partisan Gunslinger]

When folks talk about regional voting trends I can’t help but think “rust never sleeps”. Washington state was reasonably republican until about 30 years ago when the metropolitan areas went lib in a big way. The ratios are still close - to the point where last year the pubbies took back the Legislature. And if you look at states like Virginia you know (should know) that (one) shouldn’t take anything for granted. I’m glad that southern states vote conservative and hope that they always do

Yeah, I'm glad they do. I like to visit the south, I've been down there a few times, and while I like their voting trends it seems like they have this thing for the police state. Roadblocks in the middle of the day, anti-drinking laws so stringent in some areas you can be arrested for catching your toe on a curb, cops staring at you for no reason. My friends liked to go down to Tennessee every year to have a good time but I quit going because of all that, I'd rather party in Chicago. But I do like the people in the south.

Oh, and the proposition that without the south the north would be “completely communist”? Pure delusion that ASSumes a whole universe of probabilities.

Yeah, like I said, Wisconsin is proving that totally false.

[rockrr]

Likewise I have friends in North Carolina and they always seem to be remarking about the roadblocks. Fortunately we don’t have that in my state.