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BETTER DEAD THAN RED
Portland Mercury ^ | 11-11-04 | Dan Savage

Posted on 11/16/2004 7:20:09 AM PST by white trash redneck

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To: white trash redneck
So, if I read this correctly, I'm:

If that's the kind of love and tolerance I can expect in the urban areas, I think I'll be quite happy living in my suburban "shithole".

41 posted on 11/16/2004 7:50:25 AM PST by Fredgoblu
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To: white trash redneck

I say leave them alone in their cities. Let them freeze in the dark and eat concrete, while packed in like the rats they are.


42 posted on 11/16/2004 7:50:52 AM PST by HoustonCurmudgeon (May God Bless the President)
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To: white trash redneck

Well, two can play that game. I say the red counties need to starve out the blue islands in their states. Cut off as many tax dollars as you possibly can and make the bloated governmental bodies shed bureaucrats like dead ticks. Vote against every tax increase and bond election. They are altogether too comfortable living on the blue islands. We red counties need to hold our politicians accountable when they go to the statehouses to spend our money. Who says the cities should get the lion's share?


43 posted on 11/16/2004 7:52:41 AM PST by kittymyrib
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To: counterpunch
I had thought the reason for selection of Bush states in red and Gore states in blue in 2000 was that blue = incumbent's party and red = challenger's party. I seemed to recall that during the Reagan and Bush I elections Republican states were always in blue and the democrats in red, which while it's appropriate symbolism for the parties' respective philosophies I thought it must really depend on who is challenging whom.

It now seems probable that somewhere between 2000 and 2004 the networks decided to apply the color blue to democrat states. Maybe I'm overly suspicious but I suspect they know that blue is a symbol of truth, calm, and comfort and that red is symbolic of blood, danger, and emergency.

Oh, and in answer to this title, dear liberals: your terms are accepted.

44 posted on 11/16/2004 7:55:31 AM PST by katana
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To: white trash redneck
Citizens of the Urban Archipelago reject heartland "values" like xenophobia, sexism, racism, and homophobia, as well as the more intolerant strains of Christianity that have taken root in this country. And we are the real Americans. They--rural, red-state voters, the denizens of the exurbs--are not real Americans. They are rubes, fools, and hate-mongers.

Gee, this liberal really stereotypes all of us. But wait, I thought liberals were above stereotyping? I don't understand?

I'm one of those rubes. I guess having a Master's Degree, a professional certification, a good income, and having been to Europe twice don't lift me out of my rube status. Too bad, I tried so hard to better myself.

45 posted on 11/16/2004 7:56:55 AM PST by Hardastarboard
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To: white trash redneck

Haven't heard that saying since I was a Freshman in high school and left a church because of that topic.

Went to a youth meeting and was only one of two people who said they would stand up to Communism when the topic was "better dead then red" -- then I was chastised by our local minister -- never went back to the Church of the Brethren and became a Lutheran. Then found out my Uncle had done the same thing years earlier when he joined the Air Force and his minister objected. He became a Republican activist in years following and taught me a lot about Republican activism when I was a teenager.

My parents supported me 100% -- my Dad refused to go have anything to do with that Church as well so we all became Lutherans.


46 posted on 11/16/2004 7:56:59 AM PST by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Thanks Oklahomans for giving Pres Bush the win in all our counties!)
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To: white trash redneck

"In short, we're through with you people."

Prove it. Please, please, please, prove it....


47 posted on 11/16/2004 7:57:25 AM PST by HeadOn (Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.)
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To: white trash redneck

So the 'urbanists' want to pull up their drawbridges and live behind their city walls? No problem. Let them eat words, and freeze in the dark. No crops, no power, no water...those things are all produced by the bigoted louts in the fly-over states, and sent w/gratitude to the blue cities. And in return, the blue cities give us...what?Michael Moore, Michael Jackson, and MTV? Drugs, rap, and 'reality' television? Britney Spears, Eminem, and Dan Rather? What part of ending that 'bargain' would be a bad thing?


48 posted on 11/16/2004 7:59:16 AM PST by Clioman
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To: white trash redneck
"Another whining rant from a gay metrosexual that demonstrates the paradigm shift that the RATs must accomplish before they can begin winning national elections."

Actually, the guy's point can be re-stated another way. It is well known in biology that if large numbers of members of virtually any species are confined together in limited space, they begin to exhibit pathological behavior----gratuitous violence, homosexual behavior, and other symmptoms. I'm sure the animals in those groups consider their behavior completely normal---even though it is at great odds with the typical behavior of the species in an un-crowded environment.

This can explain completely the irrational behavior of the urbanite leftists.

49 posted on 11/16/2004 7:59:20 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel)
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To: white trash redneck
Who wants to go to small-town America now? You people scare us.

BOO! You girly man asshole.
BTW, we'll be happy to give you Detroit as long as you move that festering boil on the backside of Michigan's behind somewhere else.

50 posted on 11/16/2004 8:01:15 AM PST by michigander (The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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To: KarlInOhio
"Urban Achipelago? I thought of it as great plains of reason surrounding a few festering disease ridden urban swamps."

See reply 49.

51 posted on 11/16/2004 8:02:07 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel)
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To: rellimpank
---an excellent example of the militant left---


More like the MUTANT left.
52 posted on 11/16/2004 8:04:08 AM PST by oldbrowser (You lost the election.....................Get over it.)
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To: white trash redneck
They--rural, red-state voters, the denizens of the exurbs--are not real Americans. They are rubes, fools, and hate-mongers.

Yep, all 52% & 286 electoral votes of us!

53 posted on 11/16/2004 8:07:21 AM PST by buddyholly (Proud to be a rube!)
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To: white trash redneck
"If Democrats and urban residents want to combat the rising tide of red that threatens to swamp and ruin this country"

Sorry hunny, didn't you see the map? Red is the ocean, Blue is just the wee little drops about to be swallowed up : )
54 posted on 11/16/2004 8:09:34 AM PST by The Unnamed Chick (Bush: Back by popular demand)
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To: white trash redneck

Yet more love from an enlightened, tolerant, liberal. ;o)


55 posted on 11/16/2004 8:09:51 AM PST by SuziQ (Bush in 2004-Because we are Americans!!!!)
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To: Possible_Spam
"If a kid in a red state finds his daddy's handgun and blows his head off, we'll feel terrible (we're like that), but we'll try to look on the bright side: At least he won't grow up to vote like his dad."

And let me see, don't the typical Evening News scenes of a sobbing momma crying about how her son was cut down by those gang bangas, don't those usually come from the city?

Here, a quick quiz!

Where is the lion's share of crime at?
A. The City
B. Rural areas
Where are the lion's share of restrictive gun laws?
A. The City
B. Rural areas
Where does the lion's share of smog come from?
A. The City
B. Rural areas
Where does the lion's share of energy get consumed at?
A. The City
B. Rural areas

56 posted on 11/16/2004 8:10:31 AM PST by boycottliberalhollywood.com (www.boycottliberalhollywood.com - www.twoamericas.us)
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To: white trash redneck
And we are the real Americans. They--rural, red-state voters, the denizens of the exurbs--are not real Americans. They are rubes, fools, and hate-mongers.

So I suppose real Americans are hateful, vulgar, concrete eating faggots that live in about ten places.

57 posted on 11/16/2004 8:11:12 AM PST by buddyholly (Proud to be a rube!)
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To: white trash redneck; Eaker; AK2KX; Ancesthntr; archy; backhoe; Badray; t_skoz; Becki; Jack Black; ..

CW2 Ping

So the 'rats are the urban party? What is the surprise there? They are the WELFARE party. The cities are where the WELFARE checks go. Of course 'rats will always vote for the 'rat party, they promise more WELFARE.

Of course, if push comes to shove, they will simply freeze and starve to death in the dark. Without the red counties and the rest of the red nation, the blue ghettos could not survive a year.

58 posted on 11/16/2004 8:11:48 AM PST by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: HoustonCurmudgeon
I used to live in a big city on the west coast with all the other "enlightened" folks. But I got tired of the enlightened hookers, drug dealers, gangs, perverts, and various other forms of enlightened nefarious miscreants.

In my city alone, there were over 1,000 enlightened registered sex offenders. The crime, pollution, smog, filth, and traffic congestion were hard to give up, but I pulled my family out of that utopia to start a business in a much less enlightened RED STATE.

If he says so, it must be true. I'm an unenlightened, intolerant b@stard.

59 posted on 11/16/2004 8:12:12 AM PST by highimpact (The only way to defeat terrorism is to annihilate the terrorists)
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To: white trash redneck

darwinism is a self fulfilling prophecy to its adherents.


60 posted on 11/16/2004 8:15:19 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (if a man lives long enough, he gets to see the same thing over and over.)
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