Life in the Red States

[AValdoux]

This column was especially poignant to me. It describes what you are likely to hear out in public in the red state I live in (Rural W Texas). My husband was afraid to take me out in public the first week of Katrina because he knew I was so angry I could go off on a complete stranger at the drop of a hat.


http://www.blackcommentator.com/149/149_think_wise_new_orleans.html



AValdoux

[AspenRose]

1. Oh come on, republicans aren't racist. Get over it....

:sarcasm:

And yep, I grew up in Texas. Went to A&M even, and heard conversations like that all the time. Good article.

[seabeyond]

2. my hubby not afraid

i sit with 8 bumperstickers on car. and keep my mouth shut, NOT. lol. what part of west texas. i am in amarillo

[AValdoux]

3. Abilene, TX

Otherwise known as the "Buckle of the Bible Belt". Three Christian Universities in a town with less than 125,000. They say we have the most churches per capita also.


AValdoux

[MuseRider]

4. I heard a similar

conversation at lunch a couple of days ago. We were having a little lunch meeting with someone we are working with. The guy at a table next to me was talking about "loony liberals", something that I am used to hearing and does not bother me. He went from there to some of the most disgusting name calling about Arabs I have ever heard. Between my growing blood pressure and my husbands heel on my instep I held my peace but it took all I had not to blow in the middle of a busy lunch crowd.

Both overheard conversations disgust me and yes it is a typical conversation overheard in the Red States. Blue State too I imagine only maybe not quite as likely. It certainly takes a lot of faith to have any hope for this country, or the human race, after hearing doesn't it?

[Tyler Durden]

5. I LOVE you. AND your husband.

THANK YOU for putting that column link out there. I have wondered for years why the poor and the non-white have not gone off in public on pigs such as the ones decribed in that column.

I always suspected it was a sort of decorum not possessed by the rich, falsely pious and self righteous: now I know that it is exactly that.

[AValdoux]

8. The funny thing...

...my husband works in construction, looks just like a good ol boy. When he voices his political opinions it really surprises people. He has more restraint than I do. He usually lets them go on until they say something so outlandish then he goes in for the kill. Also I'm proud to say I've managed to raise two liberal thinking borderline hippies (21 yr old daughter & 19 yr old son) in this community.


AValdoux

[jedicord]

6. I too live amongst these kind of people, N of Houston.

They are everywhere. And they always assume I think like them (doesn't everybody?).

Has anyone else noticed the recent free use of the "n" word? It is no longer taboo it seems. Probably because me and my husband are the only ones around who hate it and will say so.

[sandnsea]

7. Excellent

Exactly how I feel.