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In reply to the discussion: The Great Medicaid Transfer From Red States to Blue States [View all]leftstreet
(36,119 posts)27. LOL they're not extinct
They have no one to vote for
Much like what's happening in the Democratic party right now
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Obvious takeaway: poor states keep themselves poor through bad policy informed
geek tragedy
Oct 2013
#1
If there were such a big audience for leftists in the deep south, there would be
geek tragedy
Oct 2013
#8
No, it's a fairy tale that white Southerners are inherently different from other whites...
YoungDemCA
Oct 2013
#18
Ideological and political views are themselves products of the given social/historical environment
YoungDemCA
Oct 2013
#20
an entire generation of white southerners has been taught that the federal government
geek tragedy
Oct 2013
#22
They have essentially pushed Halter out of the 2014 governor's race as well
Art_from_Ark
Oct 2013
#34
It's those Damn Yankees' fault that white southern voters are so rightwing? nt
geek tragedy
Oct 2013
#11
"There were conservative Southern Democrats, and there were liberal Northeast Republicans"...
YoungDemCA
Oct 2013
#24
The point is not that all Republicans were northeastern liberals, it was that there were
geek tragedy
Oct 2013
#25
Well, folks like you that hate the ACA and collaborate with the Teabaggers to kill
geek tragedy
Oct 2013
#40
Oregon was ready and waiting for the money, tens of thousands already added to the roles
Bluenorthwest
Oct 2013
#10
North Carolina too, except all the good stuff you listed. Ready til the GOP
SaveAmerica
Oct 2013
#31
Raise your hand if you're in the south and you told people this would happen?
SaveAmerica
Oct 2013
#30