[spodefly]

Welcome to Free Republic. Thanks for the list, but the timing is really bad ... no one goes shopping this time of year.

[buffyt]

Ha ha ha! Good one~ I was just thinking about all the crazy shoppers out yesterday. Then a commercial came on TV for shopping online. They are out to get our money big time~

[sittnick]

Do note that while some of the "blue companies" are true believers (e.g. Barnes and Noble at 98% blue), that most of them just give to whomever is in power (e.g. Walgreens at 53%). I would guess that the list was colored differently in 1993.

Except for the occasional "conservative company" (e.g. LL Bean, Coors, Jay's Potato Chips) you are best off spending on folks who don't play the game at all.

Avoiding the "deep blues" is still good, of course. But where do you buy books? (Other than directly from the publishers, and as an employee of TAN Books (Traditional Catholic Books, tanbooks.com)I recommend that heartily! For the used stock, go to bookfinder, not Amazon.