What county do you live in?

[Downtown Hound]

I live in Humboldt County, CA. Population 126,514. Located about 200 miles north of San Francisco and 410 miles south of Portland Oregon. Humboldt County has 1.9 million acres of forest land, most of it coastal redwoods. Our primary industries include timber, fishing, dairy, and growing knock you on your ass bud. We are the home of Humboldt State University, where I went to college. Depending on where you are, we receive anywhere from 40 to 100 inches of rain per year. We are overwhelmingly liberal with a few homegrown freeper types left over from the olden days when the timber industry was much larger than it is now.

How about yours?

[NYC]

1. New York County.

New York City, New York County, New York State.

(borough of Manhattan)

P.S. In case you don't know, there are 5 counties in New York City.

[BurtWorm]

36. Me too.

[NYC]

44. Hello, neighbor.

:hi:

[BurtWorm]

46. Howdy!

:hi:

[Karenca]

59. Hi Neighbors! :).........nt

[merwin]

2. King County, WA! (Or Satanville according to the Freepers)

[Downtown Hound]

3. Is that Seattle territory?

I love Seattle.

[Zuni]

49. Seattle is in King Co. Washington

[Biased Liberal Media]

4. ROFLMAO!!

I live in Hell-ville...Whatcom County, WA. Well, rural Whatcom Count is the pits.

[Aristus]

5. Pierce Co. Washington.

Home of Tacoma - (working-class blue). And Puyallup -(overdeveloped suburban red, trying to be rural, small town red. Failing miserably at both).

[fnottr]

6. Socorro County, New Mexico

At least when school's in session. Population 18,000 and larder than a few states. About an hour south of Albuquerque, where I'm originally from. Surprisingly it's a fairly blue area.

[RagingInMiami]

17. I used to live in Luna County, NM

Population about 25,000

[fnottr]

24. You kinda get used to all the space

I have relatives from New Jersey, and we had to tell them that, no you can't see Taos and Gallup in the same day and be back in ABQ for dinner.

[RagingInMiami]

26. I lived in deming

which was closer to Mexico than it was to Las Cruces, Lordsburg or Silver City, the only other cities in the vicinity.

[RevolutionaryActs]

7. Skagit County, WA.

I live in a blue town, in a red county, in a blue state, in a red country.

My head is spinning now. :crazy:

[Lenape85]

9. I live in a maroon town in a red county in a blue state in a red country

[Biased Liberal Media]

11. I feel for you

I'm in Whatcom County. Rural Whatcom County at that!!!! eek.

[RevolutionaryActs]

20. HAHA Well just go to fairhaven, aren't they liberal over there?

I use to live in Whatcom county too, up by Deming? But that was 8/9 years ago.

[Biased Liberal Media]

21. Too far to the south for us, fraid to say!

Skagit is good for Chuck E Cheese, a treat for our kiddo once in a blue moon. Food is shit, but the games are what send us there. lOL.

[RevolutionaryActs]

23. AHhhhh no not Chuck E Cheese! AHHHHHHHH

I remember when they built that thing! Kids ALL OVER! I like kids just fine, but not in swarms all over the mall!

[Biased Liberal Media]

25. Shoot all they have is Tube Time

here in Bellingham, haven't been there yet...maybe for her bday. She loves Chucker Cheese. I hate that place, but love to watch her revel in it. heh.

[Floogeldy]

8. The (possibly) paranoid guy says, "Do not respond to this thread."

[Eugene]

10. Essex County, MA

Essex County, MA. Est. Population 737,848.

Located just north of Boston occupying
the northeast corner of the state.
Counties in Mass. are mostly just
imaginary lines on the map.

On edit:
Like the rest of Mass., Essex County
is almost completely blue.

[rockedthevoteinMA]

71. Me too Eugene!!

In fact for the first time ever, my red little town voted overwhelming for Kerry. It usually goes red for the presidential election.

[Corgigal]

12. Berkeley county SC

You might know it best because it's primary High School was on nightline for using dogs and guns on the high school kids.

Move here because it was cheap. Could never imagine it was 20 years, at least, behind the times. Will be moving out, possibly this summer.

[Downtown Hound]

15. Hey don't feel bad

You might know my hometown. We were on the news all over the world because our sheriff's deputies soaked pepper spray on cotton balls and rubbed them into the eyes of underage environmental protesters on camera. Remember when I mentioned those leftover freepers? That was their doing.

[steely]

40. Oh man, that was your place?

I wouldn't have known it from your initial description - sounded like Shangra-lah.

[Downtown Hound]

42. Yeah

It almost is Shangra-lah. Seriously, it's a very cool place, but the timber industry does have power here and it is very conservative. But as I said, their influence continues to decline each passing year. Those girls had entered a pro Pacific Lumber congressman's office and staged their protest, and the cops that did that to them all have friends or relatives that have worked for Pacific Lumber at some point. Seriously, were it not for PL, Humboldt probably would be a virtual liberal paradise. As it is, it still comes pretty damn close.

[MisterP]

13. The OC, Austria-on-the-Pacific

no surfers, no horny college kids (well, some), no yearning square-chinned types striving towards Hawfuhd, just Promise Keepers, Jan Crouch, fatter versions of Coulter, Bob Schuller, Irv Rubin (deced.), dolts who want to kill everything moving, Birchers, and some decent folk, even some lib'ruls.

[GRLMGC]

19. Jan Crouch, ahhhhhhhhhhh

[MisterP]

32. the croaking, the sobbing before the bloated Rococo table as pancaked

layers of makeup dribble onto the mink-fur rug, then sobbing as she sits on a gold throne croaking for donations, the HAIR, the VULCAN eyebrows, she's a demon from the Pit!

[GRLMGC]

35. a very apt description nt

[montana_hazeleyes]

57. Is that your

'tiel in the background? She looks like my Cinnamon. I named her that because she's a Cinnamon pied cockatiel.

[RagingInMiami]

14. Miami-Dade county

Formerly just Dade County until a bunch of politicians realized that nobody in the country knew anything about Dade County, but knew a lot about the city of Miami.

History lesson: Major Francis Langhorne Dade was slaughtered by Seminole Indians during the Second Seminole War in 1835, which is when they named the county after him.

Miami is an Indian word meaning either "big water" or "open water".

[Reverend_Smitty]

16. Mercer County NJ...

aka "The Capitol County" a blue town, in a blue county in a blue state!

[Lenape85]

18. All the towns in Mercer county are blue, except for Washington Twp.

Which I could imagine going red

[Reverend_Smitty]

22. Thats not too bad IMHO...

12 of 13 towns

[Downtown Hound]

28. Are you familiar with Moorestown, New Jersey?

I believe it's in Burlington County. I lived there when I was a kid. I seem to remember it being very Republican, but being 7 years old at the time I really didn't pay much attention.

[Reverend_Smitty]

39. Not familiar with it's politics...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=167x1230
but according to the list here it is not a blue town

[NNadir]

72. Mercer County. Pennington man here.

I live not too far from the outstanding congressman, Rush Holt.

[The Great Escape]

75. Mercer County West Virginia...

the county seat is Princeton...the high school sports teams at Princeton High School are the Tigers...named for Brigadier General Hugh Mercer...

Princeton's first bank, First State Bank, was organized in 1874 by H.W. Straley. The bank was very primitive, using a trunk as a safe and a beaver hat for a till for coins. At night, the directors took the bank's money home with them for safe keeping. It was reported that on opening day a well-dressed gentleman entered the bank and identified himself as a visiting businessman. Judge David Johnson, the bank's vice-president, was so taken by the gentleman's fine demeanor that he invited the man home for dinner. The gentleman, Frank James, later reported to his brother Jesse that the bank was too insignificant to rob.

[Lenape85]

84. Ironically, Princeton, NJ is in Mercer Cty.

[The Great Escape]

94. Actually...The Town and the County Are Named For...

Princeton, New Jersey and Mercer County, New Jersey...I imagine the high school mascot was chosen to honor their Ivy League namesakes. Ironically, famous Princetonian John F. Nash is a native of Mercer County, West Virginia.

[NNadir]

93. General Hugh Mercer died in Princeton, NJ, under a famous Oak Tree.

This was at the battle of Princeton, George Washington's first victory against British regulars. (He had defeated Hessian mercenaries at Trenton just a few days earlier.)

The tree under which General Mercer died just a few years ago when it was struck by lightening. This was just around the time that a retarded thug was installed in the office first held by General Washington. I thought it sort of symbolic.

By the way, Albert Einstein lived for years just down the street from the Princeton battlefield.

[Reverend_Smitty]

100. Yeah I was sad to see the old oak go...

I've been to PBF many times, just not the same without it. Never really thought about the symbolism between the turning for democracy in this country and the destruction of it. Good observation

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

27. Morris County, NJ

Madison to be exact.

I lived in Rockaway before that (family moved there when I was 10, because blah, blah, blah Union City wasn't "safe").

I also did a brief stint in Hackettstown, NJ (Warren Co). I often felt 3 steps from being gay-bashed there.

I lived in Union City (Hudson Co) until I was 10. I wish we never moved. So close to NYC...it only costs like $1-2 to get to NYC from there.

[General Zod]

29. Guilford County, N.C.

An island of blue surrounded by a sea of red.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

30. I live in Cook County, Illinois

I think we're pretty blue...

[tcfrogs]

34. About as blue as it gets

Cook County too!

[dweller]

31. Orange

and Kucinich won the Primary (county) here in NC.

a sky blue spot in a red state.
dp

[smbolisnch]

33. Ohio :) nt

[Droopy]

37. I live in Montgomery county, Ohio

Home of nothing special.

[GOPNotForMe]

38. Alachua County, FL

One of the few liberal bastions left in Florida, and besides Tallahassee, pretty much the ONLY one north of Orlando. I love Alachua County and I love Gainesville. In 1995, Money Magazine named Gainesville the best city to live in. I don't know if I'd go that far, but I do enjoy the big city conveniences with the small town feel. Plus this town is majorly anti-Bush.

[LudwigVan]

41. If I have nothing else to be thankful for in life, at least I live in

(Mostly blue) Travis County, (Red as a beet) Texas.

[steely]

43. Montgomery County - NW of the city of brotherly love.

Densely populated are compared to points west - suburbs, malls, office complexes and shrinking open space, but I call it home. Proximity near Phila - very blue, but my area has the red mix of biz professional types, and the semi-fundi blue-collar SUV drivin' hunter variety.

On edit: population is about 700,000, and just over half of them kept the county red.

[Lenape85]

47. Didn't Monty County go blue last election

By more than 11 points

[steely]

86. You're absolutley Right -

It is a Blue county after all - I screwed up.

44% red, 55% Dem, 11% point difference, win county by 5%.

I sorta feel better. :)

sorry Lenape85 - thanks for the catch

[rainbow4321]

45. Collin County, Texas

aka freeperland,. Just north of Dallas. What a difference a few miles make...unlike Dallas County that was 2% away from going BLUE this last time, Collin County is listed as one of the top three repuke counties in Texas :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

Collin County dems are a rowdy bunch, though..someone set a freepers "chimp" sign on fire back during pre-Black Tuesday...a sign that was hanging on a wooden fence (oops)....wood fence + fire = a neighbor having to run over with a fire extinguisher when she saw the flames outside her window.

[Skittles]

87. ugh, me too

:hi:

[donheld]

48. Denver County

Colorado

[Zuni]

50. I live in Anne Arundel County, Maryland

Anne Arundel starts at the Southern boundary of Baltimore City, and has miles and miles of Chesapeake coastline. Thye Southern Parts of the county are southern Maryland and rural, while the northern parts are suburban.
The National Security Agency is in Anne Arundel County, as is Fort George G. Meade.
The biggest city is Annapolis. I live in the city of Annapolis, a small city on the Chesapeake Bay. It is home to the US Naval Academy, and is MD's capitol. It is one of the oldest cities is the US.

[Downtown Hound]

52. The NSA is in your county?

I'll say hi to your neighbors then, given that they're probably monitoring us right now.

:hi:

[IronLionZion]

51. Monroe County, NY City of Rochester

but I'm really from Somerset County, PA

I'm way too tired and drunk for this. nite all

[democracyindanger]

53. San Francisco County

I'll provide GPS coordinates shortly. I live on the 3rd floor of the building, my door is presently unlocked and I forgot to turn my car alarm on.

[TheMightyFavog]

54. I have two home counties.

Home: Marinette County, WI. About a half hour north of Green Bay, right on the Michigan Border. The rural areas are pretty damn red, with a lot of rednecks who have swallowed the NRA's "chicken little" approach to the Democrats and fundiebots, many of them farmers (and ex-farmers) who vote with their Bibles in leiu of their brains, resulting in the election of politicians at the state and local level who fuck them over, as evident by the myriad of farm auction notices in the newspapers. However, the county seat, Marinette has quite the blue streak. With the influence of Menominee, MI, home of Congressman Bart Stupak, a small two-year UW college campus (of which I am an alumnus) and a very strong union presence at the local ship plant which builds buoytenders for the USCG and the next generation of boats for the Staten Island Ferry, the city of Marinette is slowly, but surley dragging the rest of the county into the blue with it. Discontent for our repuke assemblyman John Gard (R- Sun Prari... I mean Peshtigo) and a well organized County Dem party will probably see this county finally go blue by 2008.

School: Portage County, WI Right in the Middle of the state, about an hour or so north of Madison. It's adamantly blue, but by reading the Gannet owned Stevens Point Journal, you'd guess otherwise. With a strong union and liberal Roman Catholic tradition, plus the influence of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, this aread is very blue. It's so blue, that their congressman did not have a Republican challenger during the last election. His opponents were a Green and a member of the Constitution Party, who both got stomped on.

[Piperay]

55. Los Angeles County

a BIG blue county in a BIG blue state...except the 'burb I live in is red. :-( x(

[driver8]

60. Piperay -- I am in Los Angeles County, also...

What 'burb do you live in??

[Piperay]

61. South Bay

along the coast where the beach cities at the foot of Palos Verdes Pennisula. It's heavily repug here because so many of the people are employed in the defense industry.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

56. My home county is Butler County, Kansas

"Black gold - Kansas tea." I currently reside in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. I am moving to Dallas County, Texas in May.

[Kire]

58. Warren County (not that one)

New Jersey, not Ohio, where all of the electoral problems happened

[Guy Fawkes]

62. Rock County!

I prefer classic rock, myself...

[RebelOne]

63. Cherokee County, Georgia

Just northwest of Atlanta.

[BamaGirl]

98. Lived there for a couple of years

but I'm from Dekalb Co. We lived there before it was really an Atlanta 'burb. It was a cool place. I have a cousin there now who says that's changed.

[B Calm]

64. I live in the least populated county in Indiana and its also the

second largest county. For the people who suffer road rage, there is not one single traffic light in the entire county. Warren county..

[B Calm]

65. Warren County Indiana also has the highest waterfall

in Indiana and is located right downtown in the county seat Williamsport, In.

[roguevalley]

66. Used to live in Jackson County in Oregon but now in Kenai

Peninsula Borough. They are called burros up here for all the jackasses that live here. Our school district in our borough is the size of Oregon. If you cut Alaska in two, Texas would still be the third largest. HA!

[JVS]

67. Champaign county

[B Calm]

68. Illinois???

[JVS]

69. Yeah, not that other Urbana in Champaign county Ohio.

[Skittles]

88. I was born in that county

Rantoul; yes INDEED

[rug]

70. Pike County, Pennsylvania

[TyeDye75]

73. Merseyside, England

[name not needed]

74. Somerset County, NJ

[nytemare]

76. Sunny Orange County, Florida, home of the mouse

Crossroads for hurricanes, small blue section of the middle of the state.

[RC]

77. Cass County, in North Dakota

Situated along side of the Red River of the North. This is the only river in North America that flows North.

[bearfan454]

78. Williamson County Tx

gop headquarters for around here.

[tyedyeto]

79. Hi! My son is at Humboldt U and loves it there...

except for the fact there is no ski resort nearby....over the holidays he went back to the Sierra's to get his ski time in.

Myself I live in Pima County AZ.

[Downtown Hound]

81. Hi!

Yeah, some of the mountains do get snow higher up around here but there's still no place to ski. The Sierra's aren't too far away though. Be careful, he might not want t leave Humboldt, I didn't!

[Ironpost]

80. Beautiful Mayes County, Oklahoma... Green Country

[scarlet_owl]

82. Champaign county, Illinois.

[greendog]

83. Flathead County, Montana

population: 74,471
land area: 5098 sq miles
water area: 158 sq miles
Glacier National Park
Flathead National Forest
Bob Marshall Wilderness
Flathead Lake, largest natural freshwater lake west of the Mississippi.
North Fork of the Flathead Wild and Scenic River
Over 100 miles from the closest interstate highway

[Downtown Hound]

85. kick

[nini]

89. Los Angeles County

bigger than some countries.

[CelticWinter]

90. Warren County Pennsylvania

population approx. 43,000 ppl, Alleghany National Forest and Kinzua Dam are some of the nice things to see around here...red county :( in a blue state :)

[bigwillq]

91. New Haven County in CT

:hi:

[njdemocrat106]

92. Ocean County, NJ

Red town in a Red county in a blue state

[Emops]

95. Greene County, Ohio

I live right on the border of Montgomery County (Dayton) where I grew up.

[TOhioLiberal]

96. I live in Lucas county...

a very blue part of a very red state (Ohio)
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/OH/P/00/index.html

My county is the triangular blue county at the western end of Lake Erie.

[Penndems]

97. Prince William County, Virginia

in the northern part of the state, about 30 miles south of D.C. off of I-95.

[BBradley]

99. Fairfax County, Virginia

The only thing I can say about it is that it's bluer than the rest of the state.