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The States: Where We Wish Texas Would Secede Already

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ScoobyDoo said:
lmfao.

The South is a fucking cesspool.
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It's not much different from the urban/rural dynamic in most states. One daughter lived in Atlanta for about 8 years, had a female partner for a couple of those years, and another has lived in greater Nola for about the same number of years and has had a black partner for most of that time. Both are very liberal, and both liked living in those cities. You drive out of those cities (though Nola is not even really a big city) in any direction, and it's a whole nother ballgame.

Minneapolis is a great and liberal city, but an hour's drive in any direction is also a different story.

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. :)
 
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burd said:
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. :)
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That's why they call it "the American Athens."

Half an hour outside any city in the US is Mississippi. That's why Hate Radio is popular in 49 states (unsure of Hawaii).
 
burd said:
It's not much different from the urban/rural dynamic in most states. One daughter lived in Atlanta for about 8 years, had a female partner for a couple of those years, and another has lived in greater Nola for about the same number of years and has had a black partner for most of that time. Both are very liberal, and both liked living in those cities. You drive out of those cities (though Nola is not even really a big city) in any direction, and it's a whole nother ballgame.

Minneapolis is a great and liberal city, but an hour's drive in any direction is also a different story.

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. :)
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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.
 
Gets what? That the Republicans in 1980 started the process of creating a divide in this country so fucking wide that 3 people own over 75% of the wealth?
 
psych said:
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.
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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.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
Gets what? That the Republicans in 1980 started the process of creating a divide in this country so fucking wide that 3 people own over 75% of the wealth?
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Dark Brandon gets it.

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




What I thought.
 
Handyman said:
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!
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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
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Beet farm stench during the thaw after processing is the most foul and violent experience my olfactory has lived through.
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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.
 
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