More Alabama bashing

[quaoar]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=2258160&mesg_id=2258160

Alabama seems to be about as popular as North Korea around here.

[northzax]

1. I don't know, looks an awful lot like Roy Moore bashing to me

not 'bama bashing.

Attention fellow DUers, I hereby call for a cessation of Alabama-Bashing! I invoke the mercy rule, based on the principle that it's just too damn easy. thank you.

[quaoar]

6. I should move to your state

It must be a paradise free of racism and bigotry with jobs for everyone and gold coins laying the streets. Otherwise there is no way you could rationally be so smug.

[northzax]

7. ahh, but I don't live in a state

I live in colonial Washington DC, come on up, you may dislike Roy Moore, but at least he was elected, not appointed by people from Mississippi.

[quaoar]

8. Any place that elects Marion Barry to anything

has no room to criticize a state that elects Roy Moore.

[autorank]

2. Go yell at them if they're picking on a whole state.

Tried to retrieve this thread but the 'archive search' is not working.

Here's the text. We had a ton of responses to this with 'southlandsheri' of your great state in the thinck of it. I live in VA and we're so conceited that I didn't realize this red/blue stuff applied to me, until I realized it did. Nevertheless, it's not fun. I've done some work in AL and enjoyed it. Keep the faith. Here's the message.

Things really calmed down for a good while after this but I suppose vigilance is required.

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autorank Donating member (1000+ posts) Mon Nov-22-04 12:38 PM
Original message
The Red State vs. Blue State Crap Needs to Stop Now
Edited on Mon Nov-22-04 12:42 PM by autorank


I'm about as pissed off as anybody about * winning. The Red-Blue crap is largely useless; especially talks about a boycott! Here is why:

(1) We need the Red states in 2006 and 2008. What a perfect softball for Rove to hit in those states -- see what these elitists really think of you.

(2) We don't campaign in the Red states, advertise much, or pay much attention to them. How the F are they going to get the message about our commitment to their issues? I wondered why we didn't do massive local radio advertising; great medium and lots of people listen while they drive all over the place.

(3) California elected Reagan twice and Deukmejian (R) twice. What a great move that would have been back then; boycott California. Give me a break.

(4) Are you comfortable adopting the same strategy that Nixon used to screw us; except this time we're screwing ourselves. Nixon's Southern strategy was to pit middle and lower class whites against blacks on the race issue, thus getting the white vote while not representing their interests. We're not screwing ourselves. Pit Red and Blue states against each other on location, religion, etc. when the real issues pertain to war, economic justice, racial-ethnic justice.

(5) I'm in very Blue part of a Red state, Northern Virginia. We have a Democratic Governor. I don't even think about Red-Blue (raised in CA, lived in NYC before here). Guess what we produce that you will boycott -- the f'ing internet. Telenet was the first public data network (Reston, VA); MCI set up the internet backbone (Arlington, VA); UUNET was the backbone integrator (Fairfax, VA). Go right ahead and boycott VA but be sure to use one of the other "internets."

Venting time is over. Lets be both tactically and strategically smart. If you want to see what's up, look at Montana state-wide elections, look at Colorado, look at Virginia's governor and potential in 2008.

I'm with Obama:

There are no Red states or Blue states, just United States

You might recall these words from Obama's Keynote address at the DNC:

"Yet even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America there's the United States of America. There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America. The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I've got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States."

[BamaLefty]

3. Exactly

[autorank]

4. So who sends the next msg to GD:Politics, you or me?

Time for a reminder. I'm reveling in my new identity as a Red State Democrat.

[autorank]

5. Did it already.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1446164

[southlandshari]

9. Hey, thanks for remembering, autorank!

I've been on a bit of a DU hiatus (sorry, autorank, I missed your great alerts to important threads - please don't stop sending them via PM) for various reasons the last few weeks, but I'm BAAAAACK, and now trying to catch up!

I probably have a text version of the "The Red State vs. Blue State Crap Needs to Stop Now" thread from back in November saved, if anyone wants me to email a copy. I thought it was one of the best of the volumnious threads on red state (read: South) bashing, because there was actually some resolution among some of the participants who were initially hostile to each other (yes, I was one of them!).

Anyway, I want to get back to the rest of this thread and others before I lay me down to sleep, so I'm off. But it is good to be back among friends here!

southlandshari