Posted on 11/11/2004 6:28:46 AM PST by AuburnJenn
Nov. 10, 2004 -- Leora Dowling and her husband thought returning from deep in "red" America to her native New England would make them feel more comfortable, more like the people around them shared their values. Since the election, she's been contemplating another move. To Italy.
"After the election, my husband and I asked ourselves, 'How could our country be heading backward? How could so many people miss or choose to ignore the obvious failures of the Bush administration?'" the former Florida resident said.
Dowling, a college professor who lives with her husband in Vermont, is not alone in feeling that the wounds cannot be healed, or at least that Bush is not the man to do it.
For Dowling, as for others who ABCNews.com spoke with, though the immediate anger may be focused on the president — whether because of the war in Iraq, his stance on same-sex weddings, what they say is his blurring of the line between church and state, or his championing of the Patriot Act — there is a broader concern. They say they feel the United States is changing in ways they do not like, and they feel powerless to stop it.
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This is probably because it's becoming filled with Third World illegal immigrants.
Oklahoma might be a place for you. Some snow. It can get hot in the summers in the Western half especially. North central might be the place you are looking for. It has also voed for the pubbie since the 60's I believe.
I live in Missouri now and it fits your description pretty well. Not too hot in the summer. Snow, but only one or two bad storms a year. That's applicable here in SW, MO. We're a swing state, though. All but six times since statehood, the winner of MO electoral votes has taken the White House.
Delta is ready when they are...
W stands for Whining Wiberal Wosers!
FILTHY NASSSSTY BUSHIESSSSSSS (gollum, gollum)......WE HATES THEM FOREVER....THEY STOLE THE PRECIOUSSSSSS.....IT'S OURSSSS AND WE WANTS IT, WE WANTS IT!!!!! (gollum, gollum)....NASSSTY THIEVESSSSSSSS.....
Please don't categorize all teachers as liberal DUmmies. I am a proud US Marine vet and am an elementary school teacher. Most of the teachers in my school voted for Bush. I am NOT a member of the communist NEA.
" How America Feels more at home, and like the America that we one knew since the Liberals left the USA "
If that statement had been at the beginning of the article, I would have stopped there.
That's okay, I never considered these people "Americans".
buh bye!
I think a clear pattern has started to emerge. Wealthy libs always *threaten* to leave the country. They *never, ever, ever* actually do it. This is the liberal equivalent of holding your breath - in the end they always breath - so I think we should just ignore these "threats" in the future - as *nothing* ever comes of them.
yeah, I remember that feeling (1992-2000) but I dealt with it.
Please don't categorize all teachers as liberal DUmmies. I am a proud US Marine vet and am an elementary school teacher. Most of the teachers in my school voted for Bush. I am NOT a member of the communist NEA.
Accept my apologies. My wife teaches too, so don't tell her what I said.
All the folks who want to pay high taxes to make their kids available for sex with democrats, just lost again.
Report from ABC.
How do we even know if it is true?
No problem. And ooops, that's NAE not NEA. I know many people categorize teachers as liberals but there's lots of us gun toting, Jesus lover conservatives in this here part of Jesusland !
I'll trade. I am stuck here in central NY. If I could move my family (including parents and in-laws) out, then I would leave NY in a drop of a hat.
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