why don't blackouts ever hit repuke areas?

[pstokely]

why does Texas have its own grid?

[Northwind]

1. Dude

You think North Shore of Long Island is some liberal stronghold? Texas has its own grid because we like to be independent.

[pstokely]

3. the red state with blackouts was Ohio

and they were in Blue areas of it

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. You know what I find disturbing about your comment...

Texan corporations can be the worst carpetbaggers around. Look what they tried to do to California with Enron. It's like warfare using the commodity & service markets as a weapon. So they push for deregulation that affects other states, and there they are ready to swoop down and take over.

[unfrigginreal]

8. You're right to be disturbed TBC but consider the source.

This isn't the first post that he/she has made today that should be questioned.

[progressivejazz]

13. Texas has its own grid because...

Texans don't work well with others. And they don't work well with others because they have well-deserved feelings of inferiority which they cover with bravado.

This message comes to you from an observant citizen of Houston who is not a Texan.

[Catherine Vincent]

20. LOL!

Hello to you from another Houstonian!

[Drifter]

2. Most Repuke areas are ...

out in the sticks, and they don't have electricity to begin with.

</sarcasm>

couldn't resist

Cheers
Drifter

[SharonAnn]

9. I was going to say "They do but no one notices"

since there's no one there.

[snake1306]

4. Don't you just love it when a plan comes together?

< Evil Grin >

[moosedog]

6. I was wondering that same thing

Something fishy. Something is in the making that we are not going to like. Mark my words. People better wake up and stop bowing to the king boys. I won't hold my breath, especially after seeing the men in uniform this morning on C-Span, flocking to get a look at such a ....you can fill in the blanks, as well as I can.

[democrat in Tallahassee]

7. no people only rocks and prairie dogs in the red states n/t

&

[Garbo]

10. They all have generators.......

......waiting for the world to come to an end!

[PaDUer]

11. Palast hit it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=180306

[shimmergal]

12. East Coast chauvinism is really thick in these comments!

Keep up such attitudes and Democrats may never win back any of the red states!

Yes, there are people and even cities in the vast reaches of "flyover" country. There are even liberals. Do the names Wellstone, Kucinich, et al. ring any bells?

Blackouts, extreme weather etc. _do_ happen in other areas too. The fact is, we only get the massive TV coverage if it involves NYC, the Bowash metropolis, or the Los Angeles area. Otherwise, just quaint cameos of people paddling boats thru floods, then back to the rest of the "news."

In three hours' coverage on three different channels last night, there wasn't any news except the blackout.

Sorry, but I've lived long-term in four different areas of the "hinterland". In each of them, truly catastrophic weather and other disasters have rated just footnotes at most in media coverage.

[CO Liberal]

14. Repub Areas Are Already In The Dark

:-)

[davidinalameda]

15. brava COLib

good answer

anyway--there are like how millions of people in New York and it's the financial center of the country.

[LibInternationalist]

16. What a ludicrous question

[in_cog_ni_to]

17. I looked at the blackout

as another warning to NY. You know...Anthrax/Daschle type of warning?
Here's what we can/will do if you don't come around to OUR way of thinking. ANOTHER repuke think tank at work. JMO.

[DinahMoeHum]

18. Better a blackout than hurricanes or tornadoes. . .

Now THOSE kinds of calamities hit Repuke areas all the time!

:evilgrin:

[leftofthedial]

19. they are perpetually benighted

so blackouts are not news