Feelings of the South regarding the election:

[napi21]

The headline:

"Nation’s leadership has turned too far away from our creator!"

http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/225/article/72473/

This is a LTE in our newspaper today. It's too long for me to paste it here, but I can tell you that I must have said "OH NO" at least 1/2 dozen times as I read it. Here's a clip of one paragraph:

"In this year of campaigning, much has been said about “racial prejudice” on the part of conservatives and Christians by Barack Obama and his hooligans. Let me state this clearly: As a Christian, God created us all. It’s not the color of your skin that matters; it’s what’s in you heart that really counts. This prejudice of race is a lie from a president that will do anything just be re-elected."

No point in trying to convert these people to Dem!

[Arugula Latte]

1. "Barack Obama and his hooligans"

Nooo, no signs of racism there, no sireee, none at all ...

[msanthrope]

5. He meant it in the kindest, whitest way possible.

[WCGreen]

2. Do they mean the founding fathers...

Because they are the creators of the United States...

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. President Obama Won Alachua County (Gainesville) 60% -39%

http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/states/president/florida.html

[Populist_Prole]

4. Disgusting, but we can rejoice in their irrelevance when the get FLATTENED this fall

That's the only thinks those delusional mooks understand.

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6. Yep, 1 LTTE in 1 paper in 1 town in 1 state is proof we all think alike.

The entire South. All thinks the same. All hold the same opinions and beliefs. That LTTE proves it.



Wondering two things:

What is the difference between judging a group people based on race or gender, and judging a group of people based on where they live? Aren't all forms of bigotry?

Also, given the assumed monolithic nature of the South, how in the world did Obama win VA and NC and FL last time around?

Seriously, don't you mean "Feelings of conservatives," rather than, "Feelings of the South?"

[Fawke Em]

8. Thank you for joining in my "don't be bigoted against the South" brigade!

I've been alerting on anti-South statements for about a month now, after tiring of the broad-brush painting approach taken by a number of DUers who don't seem to realize that, yes, it is bigoted to pretend the South is monolithic! Being conservative is not automatically akin to being Southern. Being a far-right fundamentalist nut-job is not automatically akin to being Southern.

And, to aid you in your approach, I present the following Letter to the Editor I read yesterday:

Protection from domestic violence, equal pay regardless of gender and access to women's health care are rights women have struggled to gain, but they are now under attack by the Republican Party.

The Violence Against Women Act, passed by Congress in 1994, was intended to protect victims of domestic and sexual abuse and bring their abusers to justice. By 2000 the law was seen to be so effective and popular that its reauthorization passed the U.S. House 371-1 and the Senate 95-0. This April, the Senate again approved a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, but the House bill omitted new protections for gay, Indian, student and immigrant abuse victims contained in the bipartisan Senate bill. Despite overwhelming support for the revised version of the law in the Senate, the Republican leadership in the House blocked its passage.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/sep/07/letter-gop-actions-harm-women/

This is another "Feeling from the South" and it doesn't conform to the OP's bigoted assumption of the entire region.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. I Showed The Poster When I Showed Obama Beat McCain 60-40% In Alachua County

[Fawke Em]

11. And, on average, the Southern states are just

a few points shy of 50 percent Democratic, too (averaged all together).

With the flux of Northerners moving down to the South for the weather, jobs, low taxes, etc., I suspect more than just three Southern states could go blue in the next few years.

[2on2u]

7. Most folks around here are dyed in the wool if you know what I mean, doesn't matter that

billboards line the local main thoroughfare with countless billboards advertising work out the ying yang, doesn't matter that there are drilling rigs working like never before, sometimes I wonder what it would take for them to see the truth of it.

[WooWooWoo]

10. I know my experience isn't representative of the south, since i'm not from here

I've just lived here for the last year or so, but on the Kentucky-Tennessee border I've seen one Romney bumper sticker and about a dozen Obama stickers.

I've seen anti-Obama stickers too, but nothing pro-Romney or pro-GOP.

And this is in a military town.

[Fawke Em]

12. Same here and I'm a little further South of you in Knoxville, TN

I've seen one Romney sticker, a few anti-Obama stickers and a plurality of pro-Obama stickers.

[Glitterati]

13. It should be noted - Georgia NOT Florida

This is NE Georgia, in the same region of the area where those old men were convicted of the bomb threat. This is essentially the Appalachian section of Georgia.

Lots of gold mining in Dahlonega, Georgia.

Give us in the south some credit for driving these fools into the foothills.

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14. The entire South?

Boy, you must have been busy talking to eleventy billion people.