A Letter To The People in The Red States

[Jon8503]

by Susan Schroeder

I am writing this letter to the people in the red states in the middle of the country -- the people who voted for George W. Bush. I am writing this letter because I don't think we know each other.

So I'll make an introduction. I am a New Yorker who voted for John Kerry. I used to live in California, and if I still lived there, I would vote for Kerry. I used to live in Washington, DC, and if I still lived there, I would vote for Kerry. Kerry won in all three of those regions.

Maybe you want to know more about me. Or maybe not; maybe you think you know me already. You think I am some anti-American anarchist because I dislike George W. Bush. You think that I am immoral and anti-family, because I support women's reproductive freedom and gay rights. You think that I am dangerous, and even evil, because I do not abide by your religious beliefs.

Maybe you are content to think that, to write me off as a "liberal" -- the dreaded "L" word -- and rejoice that your candidate has triumphed over evil, immoral, anti-American, anti-family people like me. But maybe you are still curious. So here goes: this is who I am.

I am a New Yorker. I was here, in my apartment downtown, on September 11th. I watched the Towers burn from the roof of my building. I went inside so that I couldn't see them when they fell. I had friends who were inside. I have a friend who still has nightmares about watching people jump and fall from the Towers. He will never be the same. How many people like him do you know? People that can't sit in a restaurant without plotting an escape route, in case it blows up?

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http://www.opednews.com/schroeder_111204_red_states.htm

[DU9598]

1. Before you all get over-judgmental

You are a New Yorker. Do you know that in Des Moines, Iowa and several of our other cities in the State of Iowa we were visited by two of your former mayors - Ed Koch and Rudy Guilliani - on election eve? You people voted for them and put them in office. They came out to Iowa and other purple states to campaign for *. Why don't you all start voting in liberal Democrats to run your cities and be your governors and then you can criticize us. Until then, we have to have your blue state, but red colored politicians like Pataki and Schwarzteneger come and pay us visits. In other words, don't throw stones, we are not that different.

At least in Des Moines we have a Democratic mayor and a Democratic governor.

[NMDemDist2]

2. the comments were as good as the original letter n.t

[warrior1]

3. How about

changing the red states to the gray? I mean, aren't we fighting a civil war?

Blue against Gray?

[MuseRider]

4. I hope this letter

helped her to feel better. It is just one letter of the many that miss the point and further the fight of Red vs Blue. Sorry, this will not help.