If you had to live in a red state which one would it be?

[ccharles000]

I have a cousin in Idaho and she voted for Obama so Dems do live in ID. It is a beautiful place and Boise seems nice. So if I have to move to a red state it would be Idaho.

[Chan790]

1. Texas.

I used to work long-distance for an NPO in Houston and had to fly down there 4-5 times a year. I actually really like TX. Also, I'm a city kid and it's one of the few red states with truly major cities.

[MrCoffee]

39. Houston is great, so is Austin

I love Texas.

[semillama]

82. I second Texas.

Just for the birding down along the Rio Grande.

[Shell Beau]

2. The one I live in now. It is slowly getting bluer by the day.

It make take a little while, but you wait. It will happen.


BTW, it is Mississippi.

[Flaxbee]

3. I have family in Boise and it's a pretty nice place - they moved

from Arizona, which would be another choice of mine. Sedona. Sigh.

Forgot Montana, though with two Dem. senators and a Dem. governor, and my best friend who is very liberal lives there, it just didn't dawn on me to consider it 'red'.

[nomorenomore08]

5. I could never live in Arizona, namely because of the climate.

Considering I've lived my whole life on the coast of Northern California, where anything over 85-90 is considered scorching, living in Phoenix or Tucson would be my idea of hell on Earth.

[ccharles000]

6. ...

I agree. NC heat is bad as it is I do not need to move where it is worse.

[Sebastian Doyle]

9. That's entirely different though.

Yeah "it's a dry heat" may be an old cliche, but it's the truth. Down in the southeast, you guys got some serious humidity to go with the heat. Virtually none in AZ, so 100 degrees in the desert would probably "feel" closer to 85 in heavy humidity. Now of course when it gets up to 115 or 120, that's just damn hot anywhere, and god help you if you don't have A/C or at least a "swamp cooler" (though those things seem useless to me)

The extreme humidity gets to me long before extreme heat would. If I want to be dripping in sweat, I'll go in a sweat lodge and do so properly.

[ccharles000]

10. oh

Thanks for telling me the difference. :hug:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

34. Humidity keeps things green. That's why I don't think I could live out west.

I'd sweat a little more just to have plenty of greenery around me and the lower threat of a forest fire. After seeing the reports from CA a couple of weeks ago, that's one less thing that would draw me to live there.

[Sebastian Doyle]

42. What, this ain't green enough for you?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

50. A drab olive just doesnt' cut it.

:P

[PVnRT]

54. Flagstaff is #6 for cities getting the most snow every year

[nomorenomore08]

4. Probably Montana, although it's more "purple" nowadays.

The scenery is absolutely transcendent, just jaw-dropping. And if I was ever inclined to go fishing/hunting, that would be damn near the perfect place.

[mcctatas]

7. Alaska...

I've always wanted to see Russia!

[PaddyBlueEyes]

11. YOU BETCHA

.. Louisiana..two words...mardi gras..

[coyotespaw]

15. Plus you've got the Palin accent down...

:evilgrin:

[Sebastian Doyle]

8. Arizona is my second home as it is.

Though I probably won't be spending much time there with Jan the nutcase in charge. :(

[MrSlayer]

12. Alabama.

If I have to suffer I want to really suffer.

[mcctatas]

13. ...

:spray:

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. Arizona

For one month out of the year (March), living in the Phoenix area would be like nirvana. :D

[azmouse]

35. It's pretty nice here right now.

Highs are expected to be in the mid-70s all week.
Flowers are blooming and birds are singing. Perfect.

[Oeditpus Rex]

48. 'Perfect' in Arizona is when there's baseball all over the place

Especially the Dodgers in their new spring home. :bounce:

[azmouse]

51. I can't argue with the baseball thing but

I can with the Dodgers... :P


Goooo Dbacks!

[Oeditpus Rex]

52. Yeah... gooooo, Snakes!

Slither away in September, like last season. :P









:hide:

[KamaAina]

56. Is there a typo there, by any chance?

Shouldn't the 'g' be a 'b'? :P

[Oeditpus Rex]

59. Nah

I don't hate other ball clubs.* I truly want the Snakes to gooooo — right into second place. :D









*Except Houston and Atlanta — and, of course, the Jankees.

[azmouse]

58. I knew you'd say that....

:P


A season that started out so well for the Dbacks sure did go into the crapper pretty fast.
Oh well... there's always next year ---> the loser's lament.

[Oeditpus Rex]

62. It wasn't really that bad

They were 13-15 in August and 13-13 in September, so not exactly a nose dive. But we went 17-8 in September, so... :D

Still, if you guys had won just a couple more games that month, it woulda been a lot different.

[Tektonik]

16. Idaho

[MissHoneychurch]

17. Georgia

because I lived in Savannah and loved it. Also, because Georgia boys are cute (at least the ones I met) :D

[racaulk]

25. You're welcome here any time!!!

<--- Georgia boy

:hi:

[ashling]

18. I'd definitely live in TEXAS, because

it is a beautiful state ... well, parts of it anway, mostly Austin and the Hill Country ... and the Davis Mountains ... and Big Bend ... and the Guadalupe Mountains ... and well, really most of the rest of it ...

But then, I already live here

[swag]

19. Fortunately I don't have to, but if I did I would go back to Montana and live in Missoula

Maybe even Helena, now that I know about its crazy art community.

Not Havre again, no way. I'll only go there to visit my parents.

[ScreamingMeemie]

20. One week until I move to Texas...and I'm happy about it.

Houston is nice, the neighbor next door had an Obama sign in the yard when I looked at the house so it's good!

[Lyric]

21. Louisiana, probably.

Although I wouldn't mind living anywhere in the Deep South.

[KamaAina]

49. Oh yeah chere!

specifically, la Nouvelle-Orleans.

Somebody from Hawai'i (I'm not saying who :-) ) just sent a resume there, as a matter of fact. And he wouldn't be the only one, either. While I was there a couple of years ago, I went to a citywide march against the violence that haunts the place -- and ran into a young woman who had recently relocated there from, I believe, Maui!

[petronius]

75. That's my vote too: crawfish boils and zydeco and po' boys at Mother's

and baseball at the Box and canoeing the bayous and all those weekend festivals (Shrimp and Petroleum!)...

I've no plans to leave CA, but I wouldn't cry too much if I ended up back in LA.

[RebelOne]

22. Where I live now. In Georgia.

I love it here, despite all the Republican rednecks in the area where I am in North Georgia.

[sazemisery]

23. I live in the reddest state, Oklahoma.

There are many of us here but we are the minority.

[LostinVA]

24. North Carolina -- I loved living there

If they ever recognize gay marriage, I'd like to move back to the Asheville-Boone-Blowing Rock corridor.

[ccharles000]

27. We are now a blue state

[LostinVA]

29. No, not yet -- and neither is VA

Although I was very heartened by the Election results.

[ccharles000]

31. When I looked at the election results we went for Obama.

So we are blue.

[Zuni]

44. VA has a dem governor, 2 dem senators and went for Obama

I'd say it has become a blue state

NC Carolina is where VA was in 2006---Democrats barely pulling it off

[racaulk]

26. Arizona

I visited there in 2004, and I found it to be incredibly beautiful. I-17 from Phoenix to Flagstaff is probably the most beautiful stretch of highway I've ever driven.

:loveya:

[Sebastian Doyle]

43. The "scenic route" through Sedona is pretty cool too

(As long as Grandpa McCain isn't in town anyway!)

[MorningGlow]

28. Louisiana

But ONLY if I can live in New Orleans. Of course. :evilgrin:

[tabbycat31]

30. no thanks

There are a few factors that have to be considered for me to live somewhere. The first is climate, I need four seasons and I actually LIKE winter, and I HATE when summers get above 85 (Central a/c is a foreign concept for me as I've never lived anywhere with it). The second is that I have to be within 50 miles of an ocean.

I don't think that any red state fits that criteria for me. If you were talking about 2004 MAYBE VA but that's it.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

32. Some place warm. I'm thinking GA, SC near the ocean.

Arizona is warm, but way too dry and not near the ocean.

I think the benefits of living near the coast in a temperate climate would probably offset its conservatism.

Hell, Florida was a red state until a month ago and I had no plans to leave, and loved it all the same. Even in a blue state in Maryland where I lived before, I lived in a red county and it was still not too bad.

[tabbycat31]

40. I live in a purple county

in blue NJ, but the county just south of me might as well be Oklahoma. My county's results were 51-48 McCain-Obama. The county south was more of a 66-33 divide but I don't have the numbers handy.

The Republicans don't bother me (we have a very high senior population here). However I also don't live in a state with a high evangelical population either.

I just couldn't live in the South due to the weather, and the fact that I'm a native NYer would make me instant enemies.

[Zuni]

45. I live in a purple county too

although most of the more urban parts of Anne Arundel County, MD like Annapolis and the areas surrounding Baltimore City went for Obama, the exurban west and rural south county areas were overwhelmingly for McCain. It was something like 120,000 votes for McCain-114,000 for Obama. close, and thus Anne Arundel county is a purple county in a very, very blue state.

[ccharles000]

79. My dad lives in SC

[arcadian]

33. Utah

Before you come down on me. Southern Utah is canyon country and sparsely populated, it's the northern part that is so horrible.

[Jade Fox]

36. Montana, because it's so beautiful. n/t

[LanternWaste]

37. Although I live in one already...

Although I live in one already (Texas, which isn't half bad), I've always had a little soft spot in my heart for Maine (Maine's red, yes?). Specifically, Appleton, Maine. I've never been to Appleton, or even Maine-- but the place holds the mythological equivalent of Capra's 'Bedford Falls' in my own little world.

Lighthouses, forests, actual snow(!), granite coastlines, eerie fogs, the northern lights, small towns, etc. How could I *not* a place like Maine?

[ccharles000]

69. Maine is not red

[LanternWaste]

81. oh noes1111

oh noes1111

[Marrah_G]

38. New Hampshire is as red as I am willing to go.

[graywarrior]

61. We're blue now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Marrah_G]

80. Exactly !

:evilgrin:

[LynneSin]

41. I'd move to Canada instead

seriously!

[Aristus]

46. Virginia, I guess.

Oh wait! Blue!

Then Colorado, maybe.

Oops! Blue!

Maybe lovely North Carolina...

Blue!

The people in Ohio are very nice...

And they're blue!

Gee, I dunno...

[Deep13]

47. Arizona.

I like Arizona.

[krispos42]

53. Hmmm....

Dakotas, Montana, Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming. Maybe Nebraska or Kansas.

Not the Old Confederacy because I don't want to be sweating my butt off 9 months out of the year, and not Utah because of the Mormans. And Idaho and Alaska are all mountains, whereas I prefer flatter terrain to live on.

Mountains are nice to visit, though.

[PVnRT]

55. I just moved to Kentucky and love it here

It probably helps I'm in the southern portion of the Bluegrass (20 miles south of Lexington).

[beck47]

57. Arizona

I love to go to spring training in Scottsdale and watch the Giants

[GreenPartyVoter]

60. Are there any in the Pacific northwest? I don't do well in the heat so the

southeast and southwest wouldn't be so good for me, even though I am sure they are all lovely states.

[ccharles000]

65. Idaho is in the northwest

[GreenPartyVoter]

70. Hmmm.. I'm a coastal person myself but it might do in a pinch. :^)

[Burma Jones]

63. Montana, they seem less Fundie and there's more space between the 'Pukes and me....

There are really wonderful parts of Texas too....

[cboy4]

64. Arizona....having lived in East Tennessee, I know I need

a mild winter with lots of sun.

[XemaSab]

66. Some of my favorite states are red states

South Carolina, Texas, Alaska, and Arizona would all be fine with me. :)

[texanwitch]

67. Texas is more purple then red.

The cities are blue but some of the country side is still red.

We were one a blue state, we are getting there again.

[MrScorpio]

68. I used to live in Virginia when it was red

And it was turning bluer by the day.

I can't think of one

[Throd]

71. El Dorado County, California

[ccharles000]

72. I don't believe that is a state

[Throd]

76. They like to think so.

[DevonRex]

73. Montana without a doubt. Um, is Florida still reddish? Never can

tell what they're doing.

[Shakespeare]

74. Texas, in a heartbeat.

It's home, after all. Going back to spend a week in Dallas with my sister for Christmas. :woohoo:

[Pool Hall Ace]

77. Nebraska

so I could be near my cool lib brother.

Either Nebraska, or across the river in Iowa.

[cemaphonic]

78. I liked Atlanta OK when I lived there

I don't know about Idaho, I live in Washington, and Idaho just kinda seems like what Eastern Washington would be if it was its own state, only with a lot more Mormons.

It is pretty though - you're right about that, especially the northern panhandle.

[Blue_In_AK]

83. The one I'm in...

I love it here. It's a beautiful place and there's never a dull moment politically speaking.