Have my fellow red staters also felt lonely since Nov 9th?

[butdiduvote]

I've always hated living here, but it was bearable because, even if the people around me were backwards thinking folks who would gleefully take away my rights given the chance, I still lived in a country that was more blue than it was red and I still knew I was on the side of reality. Now that these fuckers are emboldened, my stress levels living here are through the roof. I feel like I can't even do things I used to do to escape when life got to be too much such as go on a long walk because I'm fully aware that 70% of the people I smile at while they walk by are Trump voters who are quite proud of themselves for dashing my hopes of a caring, inclusive government. No one is physically doing anything to me, yet I feel under attack in a sense. I don't belong here. These people don't understand me.

I know living in a blue area won't make everything about our current situation magically better and that there will still be a fair number of conservatives nearby literally anywhere, but I guess it's the proportion that would make a world of difference. I so wish I could afford to leave here.

[Skittles]

1. it would if I didn't have DU

DU kind of balances out being in red county hell

[TexasProgresive]

2. I have felt like a stranger in a strange land

ever since the late great Ann Richards lost to the doofus bUSH.

[mnhtnbb]

3. Even though I live in a blue oasis (Chapel Hill) of a once purple state turned red (NC)

I have felt like I don't belong in the country since Nov 9th.

I told my husband last spring that if Trump won, he'd better expect to be on a plane with me to look at moving to Kauai--which is as far
away as I could get from the mainland and manage a move at our ages (66 for me and 74 for him). I had the trip all planned for early December
and couldn't pull the trigger on it because I knew my husband would never make the move. So I really feel trapped.

Moving to another country at our ages would be too difficult--and Canada won't take retirees unless you have LOTS of money--but I figured
the totally blue state of Hawaii isolated from the rest of the haters, bigots, dumbfu*ks and gun nuts would be ok.

So, yeah. I feel really lonely.

[littlemissmartypants]

4. Bloom where you are planted. Or try this.

http://basketofdeplorables.games/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12114591

[ileus]

5. Surrounded by Trump fans, but their dogs don't bark and they're friendly

like most Southerners...

While I live in red state hell, I wouldn't dream of moving. It's home...always will be.

[GWC58]

6. Maryland, while technically, is a

Blue state it has some really deep red areas. Western Maryland, Southern Maryland, the Eastern Shore are all red areas. What makes Maryland a blue state is Prince George's County, parts of Montgomery County, northern Anne Arundel County and metro Baltimore.