The States: Where We Wish Texas Would Secede Already

[Kepler]

What’s funny is most of the posters on here acknowledge it’s more the urban/rural divide than North/South or coastal/flyover. Louisville and Lexington are liberal; Bowling Green votes for Democratic representatives at the local level. I think they mean to jest, but the frequency of posts suggesting two different countries makes me think they’d actually do it if they were King/Queen. I’m glad Joe Biden has visited Kentucky twice already to express solidarity with us. He gets it.

Density is destiny. Cities provide diversity of people and experiences. The Greek historians and philosophers noticed this 2500 years ago, that's why they thought of their urban populations as the only fulfilled humans. The rural population, even if it spoke Greek, were considered farm animals.

A resident of the largest city in a red state will almost certainly be more culturally and intellectually developed, more tolerant, kinder, more curious, and more interesting than her cousin in the rural part of a blue state. It's not that evil people live in rural America, it's that rural America makes people evil.

[Kepler]

Gets what? That the Republicans in 1980 started the process of creating a divide in this country so ****ing wide that 3 people own over 75% of the wealth?

Dark Brandon gets it.

[Handyman]

North Dakota is different. You drive an hour out of Fargo and it's just as vibrant and diverse as it is in the inner city.

In that there is no one there and the tallest building is 4 stories?

[Handyman]

What’s funny is most of the posters on here acknowledge it’s more the urban/rural divide than North/South or coastal/flyover. Louisville and Lexington are liberal; Bowling Green votes for Democratic representatives at the local level. I think they mean to jest, but the frequency of posts suggesting two different countries makes me think they’d actually do it if they were King/Queen. I’m glad Joe Biden has visited Kentucky twice already to express solidarity with us. He gets it.

A true divide is not possible unless state borders break down. We get it but in reality we aren't the ones talking about leaving in any real seriousness. Red States are saying it, and we are just saying we are happy to help them pack. The people of Austin or Birmingham can make their choice when their Red State leaders decide to go. And if the people of The Iron Range don't want to live in Minnesota they can make the choice to leave as well. Personal responsibility and that nonsense...

[burd]

In that there is no one there and the tallest building is 4 stories?

No way. Those grain elevators touch the sky.

[Kepler]

No way. Those grain elevators touch the sky.

#neverforget

[rufus]

North Dakota is different. You drive an hour out of Fargo and it's just as vibrant and diverse as it is in the inner city.

That diverse, huh?

[Jimjamesak]

That diverse, huh?

Oh yeah, they get both kinds. Country and western.

[Handyman]

Plus such a diversity of smells...I mean there is the smell of beets, the smell of dog [bleep], the smell of cow [bleep], the smell of stale beer, the smell of cigarettes and of course their citizens who smell like all of the above!

[burd]

Y'all would probably be qualified to make those statements if you spent a week's vacation there.




What I thought.

[Handyman]

I spent 3 days there which felt like a decade. I'm still going to therapy for it!

[French Rage]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgpg...-do-basic-math

"Over 1 in 10 new Texans are from California, so everyone is leaving California for Texas."

The math: 13% of the non-Texas US population is in California, so that is actually slightly below random chance.

[burd]

I spent 3 days there which felt like a decade. I'm still going to therapy for it!

I don't envy your therapist having to help you with a Nodak experience that is plume in the sea of Minnesota trauma.

[dxmnkd316]

Plus such a diversity of smells...I mean there is the smell of beets, the smell of dog [bleep], the smell of cow [bleep], the smell of stale beer, the smell of cigarettes and of course their citizens who smell like all of the above!

Beet farm stench during the thaw after processing is the most foul and violent experience my olfactory has lived through.

I've had several projects at beet plants up in MN and ND during processing

[Kepler]

Beet farm stench during the thaw after processing is the most foul and violent experience my olfactory has lived through.

Having been past the paper mill in Albany, OR and through Arthur Kill (Brooklyn's garbage dump) on Staten Island, I beg to differ. Industrial chicken farms are right up there, too.