Posted on 12/15/2005 5:06:15 PM PST by Cyclops08
My company has a good 70% chance to move my job to Des Moines. Is this a Red State or a Blue state? If its a Rat stronghold how Bad is it?
I've been a westerner all my life, and Ive never been back east with the dramatic liberal laws... And I never saw snow until I was 26 years old. I only drove on ice once.
I'm in Phoenix. So I have to live with McCain's antics. I dont recall who the Iowa senators are. I need to Google this, but I'm afraid of what I might find.
They elected Harkin.
Not a good start.
Iowa, the gateway to Minnesota.
Blue State, surprisingly.
The Iowa Dem primaries gave us Kerry. I believe both of their Senators are Dems.
My fate looks bleaker by the minute. At least I still have my W sticker in my car window.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, of Iowa, is a Republican, but not my favorite by any stretch.
Why does it matter? You can access FreeRepublic from anywhere.
It went with Gore in 2000.
Any comments for cyclops?
I spent my summers in Iowa on the South Dakota stateline about 50 miles north of Sioux City with my Aunt and Uncle and cousins. Wonderful place. It was quiet and peaceful. Going back in May 2006.
Consider yourself lucky to moving to Iowa. Great people with a work ethic.
You'll find whatever you look for.
There are many Iowans on FR. I believe Iowa went to Bush (barely) and East Central Iowa was pretty liberal when I left there in '89'.
Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, etc were blue.
Its not all doome and gloom. I was afraid this would be another North Eastern state.
Harkin, or "Dung Heap", as Rush calls him.
"Its not all doome and gloom. I was afraid this would be another North Eastern state."
Iowa has a beauty of its own. My second favorite state after my adopted State of Tennessee.
Be Afraid, be very afraid.
Add in losing industry over the years with plant closings from Rath Packing, John Deere, Ford Tractor, and an array of other manufacturing outlets where Iowa could not compete.
So over time with huge Dept. of Agriculture handouts to farmers to welfare food stamps, other welfare subsidies, (typical liberal handouts), manufacturing decay it has transitioned from a conservative, very conservative place to a blue state as creeping liberalism has taken its toll, not unlike any other state.
However in spite of dilemmas that have taken tolls over the years you'll probably still find Iowa has about the lowest abortion rate, highest graduation rate from high school, highest GPA high school, lowest divorce rate, things like that over consistently the years.
No doubt a culture shock from AZ but with the right attitude it is a great place to live and be from just like MI where I have lived a long time. The city liberals looking for handouts outnumber rural people therefore tainting the color of the state by electing libs but it doesn't correctly reflect the values of the state overall.
JMO.
Well, I never called him a Rino or anything. One of my problems with him was his squishy position on SS reform, but by no means is he alone in that. I had also thought that he had said some less than encouraging things about Alito. I just checked and found that I must have been thinking of someone else. Grassley is OK.
See my #17. LOL, I'm trying to convince wifey to cashing out everything here in MI and getting one of those hobby farms just outside of Nashville. Any advice?
I hear that Des Moines is a nice town. The movie Cold Turkey, was filmed in Greenfield, Iowa. Funny movie. I have found that most Iowans are conservative.
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