I'm here to tell you that this article is propaganda: it isn't a blanket of gray sadness and depression that fills the city right now, it's wide-open, venomous, spittle-filled, vitriolic hatred.
I'd honestly be scared to wear any sort of "Bush" or "GOP" T-shirt downtown because I would be verbally attacked.
True story: My employer - a private club downtown - provides lunch to the entire staff of the company and we all eat in a common dining area. On Wednesday morning I went down and ate as early as possible because I knew things were going to get ugly in that room and I didn't want to be there. As the TV was announcing that Kerry was conceding the election, a man whom I normally respect walked in and said "Well, now the military coup is starting".
I just picked up my tray and left.
About an hour later a couple Bush voters were down eating with the room full of raving Kerry supporters who where clearly spoiling for a fight - this was the group of liberals I was going out of my way to avoid. These two Bush supporters came to my office right after eating and were visibly shaken - they had actually been verbally abused by their co-workers.
A little while after that, some of the Kerry supporters filed a complaint with Human Resources against the two Bush people for - I sh!t you not - "Voting for Bush". Believe me, I'm in a position to know these things.
I know a lot of FReepers are taking delight in Kerry's loss but for those of us living in Blue Strongholds all the elation of Bush's re-election has been short-lived and replaced by a low internal din of general nervousness: Bush voters are actually having to whisper to one another and make sure that their words aren't being overheard by someone who might be a Kerry voter.
Any sympathy I may have had for liberals and their loss in this election is gone. They can go to hell.
I'd say that was a better description as well. Stay safe in the big city and if things get ugly you are always welcome here. Our neighbors are all Christians and all voted for Bush, but we only have 5 or so of them. We're out by Black Diamond.