Posted on 06/07/2004 1:53:42 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Once a Democratic stronghold, Northeast Florida is now, without question, Republican country.
When local politicians and experts discuss that drastic shift over the past 20 years, they point to one familiar face -- that of former President Ronald Reagan, who died Saturday at 93.
"He's the one that started that movement, here and in the whole state," said Bill Taylor, who chaired the state Republican Party from 1974 to '80. "He had the faith, and it was contagious."
Reagan, politicians and observers say, made it acceptable for local officials to be Republicans. The former president's message of keeping money in people's pockets and strengthening the military resonated in the South and in Northeast Florida with Democrats who saw the national party drifting further to the left.
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FYI, the candlelight vigil last night in DC went on until late-i got home about 11pm.
free dixie,sw
i PITY you, though it's not your fault, that your ancestors chose UNwisely.
go do some reading from other than REVISIONIST sources & come back to talk. there is HOPE for you.
free dixie,sw
Rather than respond in kind, I think I'll just let your childish insults speak for themselves.
Your ancestors were probably the equivalent of the mosern day dolts that voted for clintoon. Stupid and most likely cowards, too.
He did help things along.
Elitism disgusts me. If you are looking for a flame war, try another forum.
You know, all I did was to post that some of us were Republicans from the beginning. That's all I did. I didn't run anyone down or impugn anyone's ancestors. And now I'm getting piled on by someone who types as though he's in junior high school and a bunch of "Southern gentlemen" who insult my ancestors as if doing so was some sort of fun little children's game. You obviously know absolutely nothing about what honor actually is or you would consider this a little more weighty than you do. The folks at "Democratic Underground" are true children of their ancestors, it seems.
Thank G-d Lincoln kept us from being governed by people like you.
Despite the left/palaeoright legend, national independence alone does not assure utiopia. One can be governed by idiots at home as easily as idiots in Washington.
the self-righteousness of you neo-Confederates never fails to disgust me
Elitism disgusts me. If you are looking for a flame war, try another forum.
I did not start a flame war. I am the one who was attacked for making a simple statement.
I fail to see why rule by a small elite of rich, bourbon-swilling, cigar-smoking, horse-race betting European-aristocrat-style planters would be any more "populistic" than rule by New England Puritans.
[sarcasm] Why of course they were. That's why they fought for the Union. That was the coward's side. Everyone who fought for the Union, in obedience to his conscience, was a coward. Every Union soldier, Northern or Southern, who died for what he thought was right was a sub-human despoiler of Ole Massa's li'l ole paradise. Only the Confederates were brave. The entire war was one between 100% cowards on one side and 100% brave men on the other. That's why the Union won, right? Because cowards always defeat the brave and the honorable. [/sarcasm]
Our ancestors--mine and yours--came to respect each other on the battlefield despite their sincere disagreements about the nature of the Union. I would be glad to respect you and your interpretation of the Union (much as I disagree with it). But you, like a toy soldier who has no appreciation of what both sides suffered and went through for what they thought was right have no concept of real honor. That is why you insult my ancestors, and the fact that you think you can do so without shame (as though you have done nothing wrong) exposes you for what you really are.
I may be a piece of shit, but my ancestors were brave and honorable. Your own ancestors were also brave and honorable. You, on the other hand, area piece of shit.
SORRY, but failure to fight for one's own native south made one either a coward or a scalawag. period, end of story.
that however is NOT your fault, as you weren't around.
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
i am NOT going to let you try to change the subject to a blue/gray argument.
BOTH, the boys who wore the BLUE (even though i would say they acted BRAVELY in a POOR CAUSE) AND the VALIANT lads in GRAY, acted HONORABLY & for the vast majority with GREAT, BRAVERY.
the "stay-at-homes" like your family were anything but HONORABLE!
still, it is NOT your fault, as you weren't alive.
personal note to you: i'll match academic credentials with you anytime. what is your earned doctorate in????
free dixie,sw
My ancestors were not "stay-at-homes." They fought for the UNION.
personal note to you: i'll match academic credentials with you anytime. what is your earned doctorate in????
Evidently yours was in the poetry of e e commungs. Or perhaps you don't have fingers.
Egad, what an immature little child.
why not head up north & be among your own kind.
egad, what a DUNCE you appear to be. head back over to DU. you'll be VERY happy over there among the HATERS/LIBS/naive fools.
fyi, i type to suit me-i couldn't care less what you think of my style.
free dixie,sw
why not head up north & be among your own kind.
egad, what a DUNCE you appear to be. head back over to DU. you'll be VERY happy over there among the HATERS/LIBS/naive fools.
Considering the vitriol you enjoy pouring on the dead who can't defend themselves, it is you who belong there.
fyi, i type to suit me-i couldn't care less what you think of my style.
Is that also why all your handwriting is done in crayon?
Go back to playing with your blocks and your little plastic soldiers.
BE GONE!
free dixie,sw
Can't you ever just let this subject die and "live and let live?"
You must have a lot of time on your hands now that grade school is out for the summer.
that is one of my MANY faults.
head over to DU. they'll REALLY like you & you'll be welcomed with open arms, as TRAITORS TO DIXIE are well-regarded by those fools/southHATERS.
free dixie,sw
No, you enjoy abusing the dead who can't defend themselves. You abuse me because you were told to cut it out.
that is one of my MANY faults.
You mean along with your not knowing English and your leftist belief that driving the "foreign devil" out of the "occupied homeland" will result in a utopia? National sovereignty usually just replaces one set of morons with another.
Aren't you growing tired of this childish little tantrum yet? Or are you so immature that you don't realize what you come across as?
As much as you enjoy "abusing" people, you must be in kindergarten. So go away now or i tell oo mommy on oo.
sadly,you seem UNable to do more than throw SILLY, childish, stupid tantrums & accuse me of being childish. it is the NATURE of a scalawag to do that, just as it is the NATURE of a serpent to slither.
BEGONE to DU. you'll be very happy over there.
free dixie,sw
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