will LA, Alabama, and Mississippi turn purple?

[cap]

will there be a rebirth of the Democratic party as a viable alternative in these states?

There are a lot of whites getting stomped on in these states.

and what about the effect in TX and Arkansas and Georgia from taking on so many refugees?

[Melodybe]

1. Mississippi already has the most liberal youth of all red states

so in answer to you question, purple, purple, baby we're going blue!

[Neocondriac]

3. Sorry folks........

I wish that was the case and you may well see some Democratic gains, but there is too strong a Bible belt running through this region and their ministers control their votes.

[Melodybe]

4. You are so wrong, you don't know what you are talking about.

You think poor rednecks don't hurt every time they fill up their car?

Do you forget that states like MS and AL have huge black populations?

You're just wrong.

[charlie]

7. Poor rednecks have voted Republican

for the past 25 years, pain or no. The Southern Strategy works. You're the one who's wrong.

[QC]

31. Perhaps our dismissing them as "rednecks" has something to do with it?

Poor folks are very good at spotting snobbery, even (especially) among those who claim to be their friends.

Sorry, but no genuine progressive uses classist terms like "redneck" or "white trash."

[charlie]

32. Take it up with Melodybe n/t

[Centurrion]

12. These "Poor Rednecks"

Are still blaming Clinton for the gas and everything else because there poster cowboy W can't do no wrong. Trust me I lwork with these people everyday. I even got called a sissy for my Kerry Edwards bumper sticker, yet theose same rednecks were to afraid to serve in the Armed Forces Like I did. These people vote Republican because it is the "Cool" thing to not be a "sissy Liberal" Plus every Liberal wants to take their Guns and they hate Jesus. That is the line of thinking of these people.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. Report from Arkansas

sure, some preachers may try and make Bush out to be the Second Coming, but most folks I've met in NW Arkansas (the reddest part of the state) are checking their Bibles for the profile of the Anti-Christ.....

[misanthrope]

2. Don't hold your breath...

...there are tons of folks here spouting the official Shrubco rhetoric.

[ramapo]

5. Displaced Democrats

What will happen to the voting rights of the displaced? I'd guess that NO was a more liberal, or at least Democratic-leaning, area of the state. Losing the NO voters, LA may just get redder, despite any anger on the part of local Republicans.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

14. That's my fear too...... They're in Texas - Don't forget.

n/t

[SoCalDem]

16. New Orleans will be blood-red from now on.

Those poor folks will NOT be going back..no matter their color..

Disney-Stepford (New-New Orleans) will be a pricey kitschy place with condos & casinos & chi-chi restaurants & shops..

there will be a need for some service jobs, but these jobs will be for the newly-crashed middles who lost it all.. The really poor have been sent off to wander the US, relying on the "kindness of strangers".. they will be welcome for a while...while the US govt is giving them and their new communities 'guilt money'..but that money will dry up sooner than we think, and these poor people will be stranded in a faraway state, away from their support system, broke..and reviled by the community who now WILL have to take care of them..

They will never again be a voting bloc..they have been rendered ineffective..

[Dinger]

23. Katrina Didn't Discriminate When People Died

Pubs and Dems died. However, the situation was handled so gaddamn bad, that I bet those that get out don't go back. You know, it is my opinion that if you are a U.S. citizen, you can vote - NO exceptions! The pubs would NEVER win another election -even DIEbold couldn't account or cancel out a 90% Dem landslide!

[SofaKingLiberal]

8. 2004 Election results by state....

LA Bush 57 Kerry 42
MS Bush 60 Kerry 40
AL Bush 63 Kerry 37

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/president/


Those are pretty big gaps. I'm afraid it will have to get much worse before people wake up and turn blue.

[cascadiance]

9. Newer Jesusland maps...

and later if Mississippi gets rolled in...

[Alamom]

10. I will respond as politely as possible.

This map (and any like them) is just as offensive as they have always been to all races, all nationalities, all faiths, ALL DEMOCRATS and just people in general who live in this imagined green area and could possibly be looking for a better way.

We ask and invite people here where Democrats, Liberals and Everyone should be WELCOME.

This does not look like a WELCOME MAT.

[CountAllVotes]

22. I agree

I have lots of folks from that part of the USA and they are not all a bunch of stupid redneck Jesus freak Republicans either. Many are however a repressed people, many do not vote for they are so very hopeless.

It is very wrong to place a group of individuals into one big clump. It is racism. It happened to me very recently in a much different way but it was highly offensive and I did not appreciate being identified in such a manner. :(

Hang in there. I do know what you mean and just remember, you are not alone.

[Alamom]

24. Thank you

We are working to educate the hopeless and non-voters.

[theHandpuppet]

26. I live in "Jesusland"

And frankly I'm not offended at all by that map. The truth hurts. Look at my home state of Ohio -- how could my fellow Buckeyes, whose state has been ripped to pieces by the GOP, still vote for scumbag idiots like Schmidt and Taft (the Bush vote was rigged) -- and watch out folks, here comes Blackwell and the "Ohio Restoration Project"!

At least here in WV we have two Dem Senators and a Democratic Governor. Now there might be a quibble. A state like Maine has two Republican Senators but they're not Jesusland solely because of the Presidential vote? Pennsylvania is not Jesusland though they gave us Rick "I am a lunatic!" Santorum while WV gave us Robert Byrd?

So as I see it, the only problem with the map is that it is based SOLELY on the presidential vote. Things are a bit more complicated than indicated by that map. But offended? No -- it looks as if we simply have to roll up our sleeves and get to work!

[jazzjunkysue]

15. I think it's funny.

[Alamom]

17. Could you elaborate? n/t

[jazzjunkysue]

33. The maps are funny in their over-simplistic nature, just like the

jesus freaks. They're all or nothing: Totally black and white, and childish in their worship of the toad king. So, the map makes fun in a way that they behave. Obviously, everyone knows that the cities are democratic, and the country is red. After all the election debate, that's clear. But it's funny to exaggerate the idiot minority across the country and call it Jesusland. That's their mentality: Fantasyland, Adventureland, Futureland, Frontierland, and Jesusland.

I call it all la-la land. They're not despicable because their religous, they're despicable because they choose to be sheep.

[Moloch]

11. Louisiana will....

but Alabama and Mississippi will NEVER go blue unless Democrats promise to reinstate slavery.

(Sorry to the many fine Democrats who live in those states, but you know more than anybody that I am right.)

[Alamom]

21. Respectfully,

as "right" as you were about the last Election in Louisiana ?

To mention "reinstating slavery" is offensive to all people who are working to unite our states and our country.


The entire South just took an incredible hit that will have economic consequences all over the country. (Of course, NOLA the worst.)


This feels like being hit again for no productive purpose.

If I missed a purpose in this, please point it out.


edit:spelling

[ThomWV]

13. The Florida Panhandle Too

It would not take much in northwest Florida to turn that good state back to sanity.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

19. Florida is really a blue state - we were robbed twice.....

n/t

[theHandpuppet]

28. That still doesn't explain Jeb Bush or Mel Martinez

Florida has a long way to go before I'd consider them blue.

[geomon666]

29. Florida isn't blue

Miami, Ft. Lauderdale and West Palm Beach are blue but the rest of the state is...hopeless.

[Mr_King]

18. They're are...

Millions of people in this country that can vote and don't including people in the south.

If we can get those people to vote (whicn more then likely would be votes for Democrats) then we could turn a lot of states blue.

[CountAllVotes]

20. the sign from the Superdome says ...

COME HOME BUSH (upper right corner, barely visable of course) ... saw this much larger on Oprah yesterday!


COME HOME BUSH

I'd say *'s lost a whole lot this time around. This is bigger than 9/11, bigger than Abu Ghraib. This is the end of this nazi regime I can only hope! They have been exposed and it took the forces of God and nature to oust this great EVIL.

KEEP HOPE ALIVE!

[cap]

25. does anyone have a feel for how the demographics will shift?

eom

[Bridget Burke]

27. They already are purple...

As is most of the country.

[Ioo]

30. Only if you make it hold its breath.

Bush and the gamn will spin the shit out of this, and those tards will buy it.

Sad thing is, critical thinking is not allowed in the RNC.