"Dear Red States..." A Letter From The Blue!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

It's a few years old, but it still applies...


Dear Red States...

We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and
we're taking the other Blue States with us.

In case you aren't aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon,Washington,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We
believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially
to the people of the new country of New California.

To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states.
We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get Elliot
Spitzer. You get Ken Lay.

We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood.
We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.
We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.
We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You
get Alabama.

more... http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/80714812.html

[Fawke Em]

1. Alerted.

So tired of the red state/blue state bullshit.

This was posted on DU years ago and did nothing but stir contempt.

[upi402]

2. you've been a member less than a year

re-incarnated? welcome back!

anyway, i think the contempt was completely stirred prior to this. it's a reaction, or a response to the insanity we have been tossed into. we're helpless against the corporate media and the corporatist take-over of American government.

i'm tired of it too. fought it for decades. but it is reality and i figure this just recognizes that in a humorous way.

[Fawke Em]

5. I was a member back when Wes Clark ran.

Quit for years, forgot password, started a new ID name.

[upi402]

14. cool

I was a Clark delegate. My first choice candidate was frozen out of the delegate count.

[tblue]

4. So...? nt

[Viva_La_Revolution]

10. wow. shame on me for trying a little levity

who pissed in your wheaties?

[Kurovski]

16. it's a parody on red state secessionist nuttiness.

Not meant to be a NYT op-ed.

A laugh can often refresh a tired mind.

[tblue]

3. I have always thought that! And I'll add:

We will GLADLY take ALL the Latino and Hispanic people and any immigrants they despise and want to self-deport
and the LGBT men, women, and children they bully and ostracize
and the black people they abuse, malign, imprison, and murder
the atheists they condemn
and every woman who wants the freedom to control her own body and get equal pay for the work that they do


DEAR GOD, just let us go, Red States! You are an albatross, and a ball and chain, and a burden we can no longer sustain. We tried like hell to prop you up, cover for you so the world wouldn't think we were all so ignorant and arrogant. But NO MOREI! It was a nice experiment but it failed. We are so done with you.


I am so up for this. Just tell me where to sign.

[Fawke Em]

6. Bigot:

a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (in this case, an entire region) with hatred and intolerance.

FWIW, I'm in a red state and believe all the things you mentioned. Not everyone in a red state is backwards. By painting us all with your broad brush, you're being a bigot.

[Kurovski]

28. A region is not a group.

Gaack!!!

Every comedian and author of humor who ever lived is grateful you don't run the show.

Does everyone have an enormous case of hemorrhoids, or what?

I'm checking out of DU for a while before I get shitcanned for the blow-up a'brewin', prior posts below notwithstanding.

Barometric pressure is jest plummeting.

[Amaril]

7. Wow, how lovely.

So I guess you don't need all of the dems that live & work in those red states either, right? I mean it's not like we're working our asses off to get dem candidates elected or anything.

So, we should just quit now -- maybe go have a beer -- and let all you awesome blue staters handle things............since you are "so done with us" and all?

Frigging unbelievable.

[kentauros]

26. Here's the thing with DU posters like this:

They have a rather difficult time believing that we love our home states, no matter what the local/state politics are like. They resent the fact that some "red" states take in more in federal dollars than they contribute back. And they conveniently forget anything good that's ever come out of our states in any form.

Also, they only consider the "redness" as determined not on a county by county basis, but by electoral votes only. Otherwise, we'd be talking about the Violet, Purple & Blue States of America

[marions ghost]

37. Right--and the map of Purple America (post 27)

shows that the division between "red and blue" is largely a

RURAL VS. URBAN phenom

NOT a North/South dichotomy

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[BlueCaliDem]

9. I feel your frustration. Believe me. eom

[Are_grits_groceries]

8. Meh!

We get barbecue, gumbo, and Moon Pies.
We get real college football.
We get Faulkner, Welty, Harper Lee, Capote, Pat Conroy, and many more.
We get Elvis, Ray Charles, James Brown, Dolly, Sam Cooke, and many more.
We get 'Bless your heart' instead of 'Eff you.'
We get MLK Jr., John Lewis, Rosa Parks, And many more.
We get Michael Jordan, Peyton Manning, Brian Dawkins, and many more.
We get Atticus, Scout, Boo, Jem, cats on hot tin roofs, Steel Magnolias and many more.
We get the best beaches thank you very much.
We get New Orleans, Savannah, Charleston, Williamsburg, Jamestown, and St.Augustine.
We get the Pentagon, Quantico, a boatload of forts and armaments, and NASA.
We get racism because we recognize it. We get the continuing heartbreak of inequality and redneck legislators, but we know who they are.
We get land we know how to farm and a will to survive anything because we did.
We get many minorities who moved HERE or BACK HERE.
We get our winters back because snowbirds are not allowed.
We get the good and the bad and there are plenty of both.

We get reality and you get fantasy because apparently you think if we go, all your problems will too.

Meh!

[Go Vols]

11. +1

[Savannahmann]

12. You realize that the morons would probably say yes.

[Are_grits_groceries]

13. Who are you calling a moron?

Huh? Just who?

[Kurovski]

18. LOL

uh-oh!

[Savannahmann]

38. Well since I live in South Georgia

Let me say I am speaking about the morons who lived next door. The tattoo covered White Supremicists who spent a total of five months turning wrenches on cars that had to be towed away when they left. I'm speaking of the blithering inbred idiot who had a bumper sticker that said "if at first you don't secede, try try again". I'm speaking of the folks from the shallow end of the gene pool who love to re-enact the Civil war battles, only with the South winning. For those I always suggest they use real bullets at the next re-enactment. But they never get many people to play the part of the "Yankee" army.

I'm speaking of psudo democrats like Zell Miller who steadily stab the rest of the party in the back. Shall I continue with people I think would support the idea of splitting this nation up like mentioned above? Those are the morons, idiots, dolts, dunces, and dummies I think would support the idea. You know, your average Rethug voter.

[Kurovski]

15. Everything red sucks.

Except for some of the real estate.

Hmm, are you new around here? Welcome! Nice gams!

K&R

[dems_rightnow]

17. Be sure and let us know when you get hungry.

We'll STILL help you out, because we don't measure people like that.

[Kurovski]

19. Now I know you don't want to lose Dollywood.

[Kurovski]

20. IT'S A JOKE ON THE SECESSIONIST MOVEMENT!!!

Geez people, east and west coasters get the same shit.

WE LOVE THE SOUTH WE LOVE THE PLAINS STATES! Can't anyone laugh at anything besides knock-knock jokes? Is that all that's allowed?

--Not a joke here: Now see if you can't convince your neighbors to quit voting against their own self-interest all the dang time.

[Egalitarian Thug]

21. K&R. Thanks for posting. It is so depressing that these people exist. n/t

[Go Vols]

25. I hope all the South Bashers

in the storm area remember to tell the 1000's of southern electric workers headed up that way to help with the downed power lines the way they feel about them.

[Savannahmann]

39. Oh we know it.

Just be careful, because Southern Power workers tend to test the line by sticking their tongue to it. If it sizzles, it's live.

[txdemsftw]

40. Really?

What a nice thing to say.

[Go Vols]

41. idiot

[RebelOne]

22. Please!!! This has been posted so many times in the past few years. n/t

[Tommy_Carcetti]

23. Yeah Regionalism!

[Aerows]

24. Don't go there, cher

I'm in Mississippi, went through Katrina, and I love all of you, too. We are a strong nation when we overcome hardship together. I love my friends up North that I haven't met yet as much as I love my neighbors down the street that I have met. And some of them are harder to love

[marions ghost]

27. We luv u 2

EVERY election "Dear Red States" get posted

Last time I looked America is Purple

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://www.makethemaccountable.com/images/0611/&usg=__8KOstaXRoKxVcGJtBBsj1JcbzJ8=&h=319&w=425&sz=48&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=u4WLvgSHd1xC4M:&tbnh=120&tbnw=158&ei=vgKPUN3IEuT40gH4vYDQBQ&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=722&vpy=184&dur=1021&hovh=189&hovw=252&tx=125&ty=100&sig=105216342086852770248&page=1&ndsp=12&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:0,i:63


Lookee y'all, at all that RED all over America....

[Go Vols]

30. looks like

Tennessee and Arkansas are more blue than most states.

[marions ghost]

34. Yeah and

what about N and S Dakota? Bluer than New York, I'd say....

[Courtesy Flush]

29. So tired of this shit on DU

If 51% vote red, you throw the rest of the state under a bus.

A liberal living in a red state takes a lot of shit off of neighbors and family. Then we come to DU, and take a lot of shit all over again.

If you think everything is black and white, maybe you should be a republican.

[Lex]

32. Just like Romney's 47% statement

is what the OP is saying essentially.

[Indpndnt]

36. It's times like this I vividly remember one of the reasons I burned out on DU in late 2008.

As if we don't get enough grief in person, we come here to find camaraderie and get more grief, instead. And it's wrong - on so many levels.

[Lex]

31. Yawn, why don't you think up something NEW if you are going to circle jerk about the South?

Boring shit.

[bluestate10]

33. May be we should attack them and take Dollyland.

Dolly Parton is ahead of her time on many issues that progressives view as just.

[marions ghost]

35. "Dollywood" y'know, rhymes with Hollywood ?

Sheesh-- just like the Vulture Capitalists--you don't even know the name of what you wanna take over today....

You can take Dolly out of the South but ya can't take the South out of Dolly