Report from rural East Texas.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

I'm in a little town and I made an Obama sign (painted it actually) on a large piece of foamcore board, with the Obama O logo at the top and

Obama
Biden

below it.

Stuck it in my yard, which is on the main drag, and put a light on it. We were doing Halloween last night and tonight also, handing out candy and playing old movies (Frankenstein) on a tarp on the side of the house.

Tonight, two truckloads of rednecks yelled "Fuck Obama!" at me. I thought maybe they were saying "Go Obama". They weren't.

Last night, several truckloads of trick or treating kids yelled "Obama Rocks!". Most of them were blacks but not all of them.

They're really showing off their intelligence. Both groups.

[EFerrari]

1. Omg, you guys get two Hallowe'ens!

:)

[aaronbees]

2. I'm in the far NE Texas corner and I've seen equal parts...

Obama and McCain yard signs. Well, maybe McCain has a slight edge, but not as much as I'd expect for a conservative town like Texarkana. Drove down through rural Bowie and Cass counties the other day and saw a couple Obama/Biden signs there too right off the highway. It made me smile. Good for those kids in your town.

[bluestateguy]

3. They were probably buddies with the guys who dragged James Byrd Jr. to death

nt

[Manifestor_of_Light]

6. We're north of there a good ways.

Texas is BIG.
East Texas goes from Texarkana down to Orange and Conroe.

I'd bet on the blacks to watch my back in this little town, rather than the white idiots.

[MrsBrady]

5. rednecks in east texas????? I'm shocked!

:sarcasm:

[melody]

7. My father was from Orange. Texas is a complex place

It created both my bigoted father and my liberal, intelligent, egalitarian Aunt Bessie.

[vaberella]

9. You have an Aunt Bessie?! So cool.

I'm from NYC, names like that are something we see in old Audey Murphy or let's take it farther Roy Roger films. And they usually refer to it as a boat. What does the nickname stand for? Is it for Beatrice?

[melody]

10. Actually, her real name was Gail. For some reason they called her Bessie.

But the rest of her siblings fit the Texas southern tradition -- Gussie, Sudie, and my grandmother Willie Mae. Most of them
fairly standard rednecks but my aunt Bessie was a singular person.

[vaberella]

4. Huh...I wonder how she got the name Bessie. Understood.

This is when we thank for the Black Sheep. :D

[Maccagirl]

8. There are no liberals like Texas liberals

God bless 'em all.

:grouphug:

[cameozalaznick]

11. Or as we say here iin Texas...

Bless their hearts. Usually you say that right after you've said something really nasty. Like, "I'm concerned he might be anti-American. Bless his heart."