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To: Leifur
"Red state" today in America means Bush states such as the Mid-West and South. It does not mean "red" in a communistic sense.

Iceland, Poland and the Czech Republic are lining up to be Europe's "red" states as the Bush states are in the US of A. Looks like we are growing in the same values.

11 posted on 07/06/2004 1:36:21 PM PDT by what's up
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To: what's up

Ah, red as in the red is the republican color you mean? I war surprised when I found out that red is the color of republicans, wich I thought was the one on the right side of US politics. Here as in most parts of the world right wing parties use blue and left wing parties use red. Can it be that the republican used to be the leftwing party (sorry my knowledge of US politics is not enough, I am learning though)?

You are forgetting Denmark, Italy and in some sense Norway. In all these countries thera are right wing parties in charge or middle parties and right wing like in Norway where a priest is Prime minister, if you are talking in sense of moral values. But I am afraid such values do not have much weight in European politics, not ewen here in Iceland.

It maybe had some influence in Spain before last elections but now the socialists are in control and they are doing ewerything in their power to reduce the influence of the church and family values and increasing the power of the state, feminists and other such groups. So Spain is on the way to be similar in these matters as the rest of Europe where the christian right is nonexisting.


12 posted on 07/07/2004 1:05:45 AM PDT by Leifur
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