An isle of red in a sea of blue -- what's wrong with Indiana?

[theHandpuppet]

Does every RW nutjob in the Midwest migrate to Indiana? Or should we rename it "Mississippi North"?

[beachbumbob]

1. large base of evangelical and rightwingers

no more, no less

[blueinindiana]

5. I live in Indiana

Indiana has Many transplants from Kentucky, Tennessee etc. heck I even have a southern accent.

It was once the Capitol of the Kkk in the 1920 I think

Indiana is a southern state that resides in the north.

[and-justice-for-all]

14. I live in Indiana too, vigo county...

and a number of people that live are are fucking delsuional RW-fucksticks.

[Brigid]

16. I have family in Terre Haute.

I fucking hate it there. That's why I moved back to Indy last year. Too many racist morons, nothing to do, and no jobs.

[2pooped2pop]

2. It's something in the corn, I think.

Perhaps the monsanto in the corn?

[erinlough]

3. More southern than down south. Eom

[theHandpuppet]

6. I used to live in Cincy

Often had to travel through southern Indiana -- scary, I'll tell ya. I saw more "stars and bars" flags displayed there than you'd probably find in Alabama!

[DefenseLawyer]

9. No offense, but Cincinnati has some of the worst race relations in the country

I wouldn't cast too many stones.

[theHandpuppet]

12. Oh believe me, I know about it all to well

I remember when I moved/lived there for ten years, I was shocked by the attitudes I found. And let's not forget, some of the primary leaders of the extreme RW of the GOP are from the Cincinnati area.

[marasinghe]

4. more like most Liberals migrated out.

[bloomington-lib]

10. That is a big part of it

[demwing]

7. Tennessee

Leaking north

[starroute]

8. Settled by southerns to a large extent

I've noticed this in doing genealogy. People from New England and upstate New York who moved further west tended to wind up in Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois -- but not Indiana. Indiana was settled more by southerners moving up from Kentucky, with which it shares a long border.

[Honeycombe8]

11. I do know that Indiana was the hdqtrs for the KKK at the height of the KKK. It owned the state.

[MyshkinCommaPrince]

13. They grow the nutjobs here, sadly.

They're native. I think many who would be Dems in Indiana manage to flee the state and are Dems elsewhere. The southern part of the state, Bloomington excepted, seems to identify with Kentucky more than Indiana. "Kentuckiana," they call the region.

[Spider Jerusalem]

15. What's wrong with Indiana: it's North Kentucky

culturally: Ohio and Michigan's early settlers were the descendants of New England Puritans and Separatists; Indiana's early settlers were largely the descendants of the Scots-Irish who settled the rest of the inland South. It's a deep-rooted cultural difference, I think.

[newcriminal]

17. I posted this earlier.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021731035