I seriously think we are seeing the beginning of America seperating into two or three countries.

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242. Have you ever noticed...

...that in every South Bashing thread on DU over the last 10 years,
whenever someone insists that "The South never stopped fighting the Civil War",
the person making that claim lives somewhere else?

In 2006, my wife & I moved to the Deep South from a Big Blue Northern City,
and in those years I have lived here, I can't recall a single conversation with anyone here who is still fighting the Civil War.
It just never comes up.

The only place I hear that is from a rather close minded and not well traveled element
on DU who seem to enjoy broad brushing a region of the USA that contains some of the toughest, bravest, and hardest working Democrats I have ever met.

I saw more Rebel Flags and "I love Rush" bumper stickers in Michele Bachmann's district in Minnesota than I do in my adopted neighborhood in the rural South.




Map of Blue Counties in the 2008 election