The South is changing. That should worry Republicans in 2018

Fentoine Lum said:
Sure, go with that then. Your system is what it is, and that's why we have to export our "way of life" via endless pre-emptive wars of occupation and global violence, having been at war for 93% of the time we've been a nation.
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How does that percentage compare with other nations, and have we asked some of them to stop attacking?
 
Threedee said:
If the south has always been so conservative, why did it vote for the most left-wing presidential candidates from the 1890s through the 1970s?
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they were not left wing. They were Dems. When the Dems quit backing segregation, it all changed. When LBJ passed the Civil Rights Act, he said the Dems lost the south for the next generation. It was obviously much longer. However the southern Dems were called Dixiecrats, because lots of their beliefs were anti black and pro segregation. They were not in line with where the Dems were moving.
 
cawacko said:
The south is changing because so many northerners are moving to the area. The hottest job markets and fastest growing cities are in the south and west. So I know it's fashionable among the "open minded and tolerant" set to bash the South it's funny so many people are choosing to move there.
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yes


when an area sees economic growth then they become more liberal

economic success harms the republican party
 
Fentoine Lum said:
It is the very fabric that holds the system together at this point; corruption and maintaining the illusion otherwise. And all this Russia nonsense, Stormy, Dems suing, division of the masses stuff is just obfuscation, distraction and chaotic smoke and mirrors to trigger feckless rubbernecking amongst the population rather than a focused resistance.
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oh fuck off


you hate our system and you hate our founders


just stay in russia
 
Kacper said:
You get used to the heat. The humidity, well, that will kill you :cool:

The mid-Atlantic isn't horrible--north enough to have a proper winter, south enough to have common sense.

When I used to live way further north, I would wear shorts in the south in winter because it seemed so warm when you come from a single digit week to a 50 degree day.
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Amen, I can take the heat, the humidity is gawd awful. The humidity is low today, I went and had brunch outside temperature is 81, it’s perfect. I have already acclimated to the warmer temps, it’s amazing how soon you adapt.
 
Phantasmal said:
Amen, I can take the heat, the humidity is gawd awful. The humidity is low today, I went and had brunch outside temperature is 81, it’s perfect. I have already acclimated to the warmer temps, it’s amazing how soon you adapt.
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I don't acclimate well anymore because I spend so much time at exactly 70 degrees year round, give or take a couple digits. When I worked outside, I acclimated with the seasons. The wind was the only thing that would take it out of me in winter, and that humidity in summer. As I used to say, 99 degrees at 30% humidity is a lot more tolerable than 89 degrees with 95% humidity.
 
Kacper said:
I don't acclimate well anymore because I spend so much time at exactly 70 degrees year round, give or take a couple digits. When I worked outside, I acclimated with the seasons. The wind was the only thing that would take it out of me in winter, and that humidity in summer. As I used to say, 99 degrees at 30% humidity is a lot more tolerable than 89 degrees with 95% humidity.
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Why would you want to go elsewhere? 70 degrees sounds perfect.
 
Phantasmal said:
Why would you want to go elsewhere? 70 degrees sounds perfect.
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Apparently my city has zoning laws and my neighborhood has covenants and restrictions, neither of which allow me to let nature reclaim my yard and the trash collector doesn't come inside to pick up my bins, so I occasionally have to go outside. :awesome:
 
Kacper said:
Apparently my city has zoning laws and my neighborhood has covenants and restrictions, neither of which allow me to let nature reclaim my yard and the trash collector doesn't come inside to pick up my bins, so I occasionally have to go outside. :awesome:
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Ohhh, hooked and zing...
 
guno said:
The South has long been the most solidly conservative region in the nation, and its voters are a principal reason why Trump won the presidency. Of the 11 Southern states surveyed in the new NBC News poll, 10 voted for Trump in 2016, many by double-digit margins.

But the poll suggests that the Southern voters who showed up in 2016 are not necessarily representative of the region’s rapidly changing views. A majority of respondents said they supported same-sex marriage, legal status for undocumented immigrants and higher taxes for education and infrastructure. And many are cooling on Trump.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-changing-should-worry-republicans-2018-n865246
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Sounds like wishful thinking to me.
 
Cypress said:
Lot's of good people in the south.
I have met plenty of racists in the north, particularly the rural north
Don't particularly like the hot ass, humid weather, or the plethora of venomous snakes, but I supposed it beats a winter in Buffalo, New York.


The dark history, their inability to acknowledge or atone for it, and the worship of the Confederacy are just ridiculous and invite scorn and ridicule.

And let's face it: mocking the south for being fat, out of shape, and under-educated is just good clean, all-American fun.
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I grew up in Minnesota and currently live in Prairieville Louisiana. There is absolutely no way the weather in the South beats of winter the heat down here is part of what makes the people so freaking Goofy
 
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