Do you live in a blue area , red or purple?

[southernleftylady]

What is the feel where you live? Red state blue or purple?
I am in TN so its a flaming red state and its getting real ugly down here about this contest.. so where do you live and the coloring there?

[asjr]

1. I'm in TN also--Redneckistan.

[southernleftylady]

9. Ok is it ok if I steal the Redneckistan lol that is sadly too true and funny to boot ;) nt

[asjr]

15. Be my guest. It is so true.

[Fresh_Start]

2. solidly purple voter registration

votes true blue

[tannybogus]

3. Red - SC. nt

[supernova]

4. Solid blue counties

My county and the one next door to mine. :D

[waiting for hope]

5. North Carolina -

I'm drowning in red. And if I hear Liddy Dole mentioned again, I might throw up.

[Sheets of Easter]

6. Sort of an indigo.

Cleveland suburbs.

[tblue]

7. Mostly blue. If not, I'd have to move.

[Blue_In_AK]

8. My precinct is solidly blue.

My city is purple. My state has been red, but Palin may turn us purple. :)

[Codeine]

10. A red county

in a blue state. (Riverside County, California.)

[ingac70]

11. TN.. a state lost to the stupid rednecks. n/t

[SteppingRazor]

12. Bluish county in a reddish state. n/t

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. I live in a suburb of Los Angeles...

Now, LA is largely blue...

Out here on the coast, though, we are more purple...

There are a lot of rich Republicans in my town, but thankfully, most of them are moderates...

I've seen one McCain yard sign, and one bumper sticker too...

Lots and lots of Obama bumper stickers!

Not many yard signs yet, but those are on order.

CA will go for Obama...and I think my little town will as well.

:hi:

[johnaries]

14. Island of blue in a Sea of red. Also TN. Nashville. nt

[katandmoon]

16. The 2004 presidential results in my county:

Kerry/Edwards (Democratic): 66.0%
Bush/Cheney (Republican): 32.8%

I'm never moving!!!!!!!!!!

[guitar man]

17. Oklahoma

It's so red in some places here you can feel the ignorance oozing all around you :(

But then, out of the blue, you run into some really intelligent Democrats, unfortunately, there never seem to be enough to turn the tide here.

[ComtesseDeSpair]

18. Vivid Blue (Chicago)

Thank goodness! I lived the first 37 years of my life in either a Red (Paradise, California) or a Purple (Chico, California) city, so I've earned my time in the fresh air.

[sui generis]

19. I am in an avocado state

although my county was recently mauve with flecks of sage and taupe.

CNN is so laughable - inventing colors to make this seem more like a horse race than it is.

The stupid thing here if you're a political commentator is to color states rather than demographics. Who is AARP (and members) likely to back? What age groups do likely voters populate across? Are there factors in addition to state residency that influence those likely voters? Why do we give a shit about the undecided/tossups? They rarely end up voting anyway - they mostly just seem to like the attention, or else vote conservatively in the end.

This ain't a horse race, and the news ain't new.

[Cleita]

20. My county leans red, however, it seems those Republican voters are

not happy with McCain/Palin from what I get from heresay. I haven't seen a single lawn sign or bumper sticker yet. However, I haven't seen much for Obama/Biden either.

[Lex]

21. NC (red state) in a VERY BLUE county, thank goodness.

nt

[DevonRex]

22. Colorado, so I don't really know how to answer that. But my county

is totally red. Still working hard though to change it.

[Katha]

23. Red city in a blue state

I'm in San Diego, CA.

Interestingly enough, there are at least two Obama signs on every block in my neighborhood. I have yet to see a McCain sign.

(I also saw a Vote No on Prop 8 sign yesterday, which made me very happy!)

[tjwash]

40. heh...I was gonna say the same thing.

Diego...right back atchya.

Funny thing here, is that I have seen very few McCain bumper stickers and signs, although I am seeing loads of Ron Paul signs, and I even saw a couple of Huckabee bumper stickers this week.

Of course living in San Carlos...we still see a lot of "Duncan Hunter" signs fading out that people won't remove from their yards.

[asdjrocky]

24. California.

And it's boring as hell. I mean, it's nice to live in a blue state, but we never have a ground game here for the national races. When I volunteered for Edwards the only place where I could make a real difference in the primaries was in Iowa, and Nevada.

By the way, I take 100% of the credit for the second place finish in Iowa.

[waiting for hope]

44. As you should Rocky!

:toast:

[asdjrocky]

48. Hey hope.

Always good to see you friend.

:toast:

[waiting for hope]

52. And you as well!

O8) :bounce:

[bigscott]

25. live in a blue state

Work in a deep blue state

(live in CT - I hate LIEberman, and work in MA - I love Teddy!)

[cali]

26. reliably true blue Vermont.

[codjh9]

31. You're lucky! One of my top 3 states fo-sho.

[japple]

27. The Red Sea: GA. In redneck hollow to be exact. n/t

[vanderBeth]

28. Red state, blue area.

East Dallas, Texas

[codjh9]

29. Kinda purple where I am, but I'm not far from a pretty bright blue spot, Austin.

But my all-time favorite place to live - in all other respects as well - was Santa Fe county in NM, where dems rule by about a 3-1 margin, if I remember correctly!!!

[KathieG]

30. I live in Marion County Florida (north central FL) between Ocala and Gainesville...VERY red here

I am having a hard time going out in public lately without my blood pressure going up...especially in local restaurants where I have heard people singing the praises of Palin, and dubbing Obama as the antichrist :grr:. I know there are Obama supporters around, but it seems the republicans are much more vocal...many are tough-talking, ignorant and clearly racist.

As a Connecticut native...moving to this area of Florida has definitely been a culture shock.

[DangerDave921]

32. Blue Blue Maryland

Home of the BLUE crab.

[racaulk]

33. Georgia - among the reddest of the red.

There are way too many social conservatives here. The Repukes could run a loaf of bread as their nominee, but if they could teach that loaf of bread to parrot talking points about abortion and gay marriage, then it would carry Georgia by an easy 10-20% margin.

Although I live in a fairly progressive area of Atlanta, the state, on the whole, is very red. Way too red for my tastes. :(

[codjh9]

35. Nah, my ex lives in OK, and just check out the Obama percentage there! LOW!

[thunderchicken]

34. blue

Grand Rapids Michigan is getting bluer every day. Lots and lots of Obama yard signs and lots of Obama support. Don't believe everything you will see on the news...McShame is coming to town tomorrow night and I'm going to photograph the protesters. More later

[racaulk]

64. Welcome to DU, thunderchicken.

And I look forward to seeing those photos. I bet there will be more protestors than people attending McCain's event. :rofl:

[CPschem]

36. extremely blue part of a regressive red state

i live in a wonderful Atlanta neighborhood where almost everyone is an active democrat.

[ColbertWatcher]

37. BLUE, baby, BLUE!!!! n/t

[TransitJohn]

38. Laramie, Wyoming

Purple in a Red State.

[Dukkha]

39. Ohio's blue in the middle red on the ends

except for Cleveland

[Greyhound]

41. Marginally blue.

One the less educated and lower wage states, many here are still suffering from induced ignorance.

[tularetom]

42. Anybody live in or near Sumner Co TN?

My home for the first 10 years of my life.

I'm now in a really red part of a blue state (Central Valley of CA)

[LunaSea]

43. Red hills of Eastern Tennessee

More "bidness major" red than pure Redneckistanian, but all are a short drive away.

They're getting a little to fond of their 10 storey aluminium crosses around here,
but I'm seeing remarkably few overt signs of approval of continued republican rule.
They may not have heard about the election yet as it's football season.

[RebelOne]

45. In North Georgia in Cherokee County,

which is just about a 100% red area.

[XemaSab]

46. RED part of California

:(

[bdamomma]

47. blue state, yes, we live in reality.

[MsEsquire2004]

49. Montgomery County, Maryland--Neon Blue and RICH!!!

Montgomery County
-Democratic run since 1978
-One of, if not, the richest County in the nation.
-One of the best public school systems in the nation.
-A lot of parks and green space
-Racial Diversity (sizeable African-American, Asian-American, Latin-American, and Jewish populations).
-Economic diversity (developers must build soci-economically mixed neighborhoods).

See what happens when Democrats run things!!!!

[MiniMe]

74. Me too. The only thing that tops MC in Maryland is Baltimore

Our only blip in Maryland was the repuke Governor, can't even remember his name and it was only 2 years ago.

[MANative]

50. Purple county in a substantially blue state

Fairfield Cty, CT. My city has a Repug mayor & city governance, but we elected a Dem to Congress (Chris Murphy, replacing Nancy Johnson in '06) Also have a Repug governor (Jodi Rell - not too much of a wingnut, more in the mold of moderate). State Senate and House are controlled by Dems. The rest of our Congressional delegation is Dem, except Chris Shays.

[Naturyl]

51. Purple county, super-red state.

Thank heaven's it's purple locally.

[mtnsnake]

53. Red area of a blue state

I'm in rural northern NY. While there are a few towns up here that are primarily Democratic, the majority of the area is Repuke and conservative. Having said that, most of the people up here are good people, just misinformed, under informed, or apathetic.

[Fla Dem]

54. Totally red county in NE FL. n/t

[grace0418]

55. Smack dab on the north side of Chicago. Blue and blue can be. I don't venture out

to the suburbs much, but I have noticed A LOT more Dem signs in suburban yards this election compared to 2004. Sure, it helps that Obama is the senator from Illinois, but if some of the lily-white, generally Republican suburbs of Chicago can turn blue, I think it's a good sign.

[GOPBasher]

56. Very red area of Michigan (southwest). n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

57. Very blue state. Somewhat purple district.

Clark County, Washington.

[Dogtown]

58. Blood-red Georgia

It's very ugly in rural/exurbia, already.

If McCain wins they'll feel enabled and entitled.

If Obama wins they'll be in a racist frenzy.

Going to get interesting here.

[Odin2005]

59. Purple, MN 7th Congressional District.

It's mostly rural and socially conservative but quite populist economically. It has went Republican in the last few elections mainly because of social issues and guns. I live in the biggest city in the district, Moorhead (which is right across the river from Fargo, ND), which is also probably the most liberal place in the district.

[doc03]

60. It's hard to explain this area Democrats out number

Republicans 2-1. The Democrats control all our local offices. But when it comes to the national elections we had a Republican Congressman until he went to prison (Bob Ney). I can take a drive around this area and McCain yard signs are like weeds popping up. I can only think of one Obama sign I have seen. What really hurts the Democrats as far as the national elections is the old guns, gays and God BS the Republicans always pull. Now it is obvious to everyone the last 8 years have been a disaster and most any Democrat would easily win but many of these people just can't bring themselves to vote for a black man.

edited for spelling

[Seeking Serenity]

61. Fuschia.

In Arkansas, we tend to go red in presidential politics, but in House and Senate seats, as well as our state races, we go blue (much of that is due to tradition and the fact that we don't have much of an organized Republican Party to speak of), but are still very conservative, yet populist, in outlook.

In 1968, we voted for Winthrop Rockefeller (R) for govenor, J. William Fulbright (D) for Senate, and George Wallace (I) for president. No pigeon-holing us.

[wiggs]

62. red and white south Orange County, CA. nt

[rvablue]

63. I live in a blue district but a historically RED state...

...that this season is going kind of purple : VA.

I am one of those voters that could not even conceive of missing a chance to cast my ballot, but since moving here it's just that much more exciting on Election Day.

The Senate election for Jim Webb was won by a difference of less than 500 votes (if I remember correctly) and once just had the sense that Yes! Every Single Vote Mattered.

I will be over the moon if the pendulum swings in favor of Obama this Nov.

[hamsterjill]

65. Texas - Red

I am severely outnumbered at work. In fact, the fundies think I'm kind of a "find" because I dare to think differently than they do.

And the fundies I'm around divide into two categories and two categories only: the ones who think only about money, and the ones that think only about being prolife. Nothing in between on any other subject. The war in Iraq is practically never even discussed because it doesn't personally affect any of them.

But hell, Texas can't help it that George Bush says he's from here. We all know he isn't really a Texan.

[DailyGrind51]

66. Hillary and Barack's state of Illinois!

[Jack Zim]

67. Red

Not fun, either...

[slackmaster]

68. Purple - San Diego County, CA

The city of San Diego is blue, most of the rest of the county is deep red.

[obamaforme]

69. Maryland - Blue all the way!

[ravencalling]

70. Tennessee! Yup Yup ... Red

And it sucks to be me. LOL.

[LWolf]

71. Red and Blue.

State? Blue.

Region in the state? Red.

Oregon is generally blue west of the cascades and red east of the cascades.

While there is more state to the east, there are more people to the west. I expect Oregon will go to Obama in November.

[treestar]

72. Precinct red, yet state is blue

[bklyncowgirl]

73. Monmouth County New Jersey--Purple

Locally Republicans rule. Our congressional districts however are dark Blue. Frank Pallone and Rush Holt are two of the most reliably progressive members of Congress. The shore communities love Pallone's environmentalism and Holt (the my Congressman IS a rocket scientist) guy, gets the big brain vote that lives in and around Princeton as well as fiscal conservatives who like his no nonsense approach to spending. My town, Little Silver, is dark red but we're in Holt's district so I am quite happy with my Congressman.

[harun]

75. Blue city in a back and forth county and a usually blue state

[jules1962]

77. Red area, red state

Northeast Tennessee..have not seen any McSame signs or stickers..have seen a few Obama though..most people I talk to say they are voting for Obama(except for the gun gurus and the fundies,idiots)
By the way,most of you know that Wallyworld had meetings with all levels of mgmt to tell them that it was in their best interest not to vote for Obama. Well, guess what? It has backfired on them. More and more associates are whispering in the halls how they will damn sure vote for Obama now, considering that Wallyworld execs have never told them the truth about anything. Bet they are regretting those meetings now. LOL! Have only heard of 2 associates voting for McSame in the entire store where I live. That is out of 450 associates in a red state.:toast:

[IDemo]

76. Purple section of the reddest state in the solar system n/t