What part of the south are you from?

[BlackVelvetElvis]

I'm from NC, the triad area. A big issue here is job loss to the textile, manufacturing and tobacco businesses. What about your areas?

[kick-ass-bob]

1. up the street in Raleigh!

I work in state govt.
And no one I work with followed the SEANC backing of Ballentine...

[southernlad]

2. Arkansas :)

[Blue_Roses]

91. me too

:)

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

103. Newton County AR

is my neck of the woods. Hi, fellow Arkansans!

[BlackVelvetElvis]

6. I work for the state too.

Same response. What were they thinking?

[kick-ass-bob]

7. they heard 5% for each of 3 years

and ignored the rest of what he was saying.

Clusterfucks.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

10. Amen to that. n/t

[ncrainbowgrrl]

55. Another State gov't employee here.

SEANC really drank the kool-aid on this endorsement. Luckily, no one I know actually followed SEANC's recommendations...

:hi: from chapel hill

[Citizen Jane]

3. Currently Atlanta

Prior to that all my life was spent in a combination of Central Florida and Durham, NC (I was born in Shelby, but only lived there for 3-4 months).

Great idea for a forum, btw!

[finecraft]

4. Louisiana

New Iberia here :hi:

[GumboYaYa]

24. Do you know Richard Spears or the Dagates?

Richard went to law school with me at LSU and the DaGates would frequent the bar I worked at in NO.

[finecraft]

54. I've met Richard Spears

He did a lot of work for an attorney I used to work for.

[GumboYaYa]

83. He's a big Republican, but he's still a great guy IMO.

[ronzo]

5. Across the lake from New Orleans.

I'd wager I live in the middle of the reddest parish in the state.
Christ, you know it ain't easy. :)

[BlackVelvetElvis]

9. I feel your pain.

Sometimes I feel my county eats and breathes red.

[CottonBear]

70. Greetings ronzoNOLA!

My in-laws live in Lacombe. My husband grew up in Slidell. I love the live oaks, the bayous and the food! It's a beautiful area. We'll be down there soon under unfortunate circumstances. My brother-in-law has only a few weeks or maybe months to live. It's going to be a long, sad drive from Northeast Georgia.

[ronzo]

90. Hi.

Here's hoping you won't have to make that trip any time soon...

[Lady Effingbroke]

8. From a trailer park deep in the rumbling bowels of Houston.....

....it's Lady Effingbroke! :hi:

[LDS Jock]

11. Austin, TX now, but grew up in Arkansas

in a tiny town named Flippin up in the Ozarks. BTW, its freezing here today.

[Rocinante]

12. Southern Tn

about 30 miles north of Alabama. I live in the hometown of alleged 'actor' Fred Thompson.

[Maddy McCall]

13. South Mississippi.

Hi, everyone! I am in higher education in the university system in Mississippi.

[JohnKleeb]

14. Virginia

[kimchi]

39. Me too.

Although NOVA is nothing like the rest of VA. I was reared in Woodstock; and got the hell out of there ASAP!

[RubyDuby in GA]

15. Covington, GA

[Jose Diablo]

17. Lawrenceville, GA here

Hi neighbor

[RubyDuby in GA]

58. Howdy neighbor!

:hi:

[doni_georgia]

72. McDonough, GA, but born and raised in Atlanta

[surfermaw]

76. My sister lives in McDonough

I was born in Fayette, County, raised in Fayette and Spalding County, and now live in North Carolina, my husband was a member of the old Atlanta Crackers Baseball Team.

[doni_georgia]

77. Cool, McDonough is getting huge -

That's neat about your husband. My dad played football for the Atlanta Rebels - the semi-pro team before pro football came to GA. We moved to McDonough 12 years ago. I was born and raised in Atlanta, as were both of my parents. My husband is a native as well, not too many of us left.

[Bossy Monkey]

16. Columbia SC n/t

[SCDem]

97. You disclosed your location!!

[Politicub]

18. I live in Atlanta

Which is very much an oasis of blue in the sea of red that is rural georgia.

:hi:

[Robeson]

19. Nashville, TN

A Democratic bastion in a sea of Red. Nashville was solidly Kerry!

:hi:

[Bolo Boffin]

68. Go Music City Democrats!

Nashville here, too.

[vetwife]

86. Hey Rob...anywhere near Thompson Avenue? We used to

go to Nashville a whole lot ! Hubby has his guitar in the Country music Hall of Fame. He at one time lived in Hendersonville and I at one time lived in Galatin.

[Robeson]

95. We're East Nashville people, the heart of the Democratic Party..

..in Nashville!

[NoPasaran]

20. Austin, Texas

Another Blue island in a red sea

[Longhorn]

36. Dripping Springs, TX, outside of Austin

I've lived in Central Texas for two-thirds of my life, having grown up in Indiana and Michigan.

It's my impression that most Texans don't consider themselves part of the South or any other region of the country -- you know, "Texas, It's a Whole Other Country!" I think East Texas has more in common with the South and West Texas has more in common with the West -- and that leaves Austin right in the middle!

[Lisa0825]

21. Howdy y'all! Texas Gulf Coast checking in!

:hi: from Galveston County!

[HerbieHeadhunter]

22. Fayetteville, Arkansas here.

nm

[sadinred]

23. Northern Florida.

Love the sunshine. Hate the politics.

[GumboYaYa]

25. I grew up in Newellton, LA. a small farming community in the Delta

on the LA side of the river between Vicksburg and Natchez.

I went to college at Loyola in NO and law school at LSU. Now I live in Missouri, which seems like it gets more Southern every year.

[JohnLocke]

26. Southern Florida (nt).

[RedEarth]

27. Oklahoma City here.........and damn proud of it....

My wife and I were both born raised here and the majority of both of our families are still here. I'm sick and tired of people taking shots at people in the south and in particular of people in Oklahoma. I could go on and on about this, however,....I ain't going to right now.

One thing I would like to point out to those who claimed McVeigh and Nichols were "homegrown wackjobs".....you got it wrong....McVeigh was born and raised in NEW YORK.......Nichols was born and raised in MICHIGAN.

[Nicole]

94. Oklahoma

I tried to tell someone here that McVeigh was not "our homegrown whack job" when it was suggested Oklahoma got what it deserved from him.

[bobbieinok]

112. born in Stillwater, grew up in Tulsa....after many years in IA now in OK

[wildeyed]

28. Charlotte, NC

2nd largest banking capital in the country. We were blue this time 'round, too. :-)

[leyton]

75. Dang right we were blue! Made me proud.

Ticked off one of the forum writers in the Charlotte Observer this morning, though, IRRC.

[juslikagrzly]

29. Stillwater, OK here

Struggling to be proud of my state. Born and raised in Tulsa, lived in Missouri and Indiana for grad school and job, moved back here because I love the people.

But, I am reconsidering that now after this election. Coburn???????? Gay marriage amendment???????

[RedEarth]

30. You'll be okay..........

One of the primary reasons Carson lost was because the repubs were able to tie Coburn in with Bush.....remember the ads, "a vote for Carson is a vote for Kerry, Kennedy and a vote against Bush." Might not be the best state in the country, but the people, for the most part are great.

[ulysses]

37. hey

I was born in Tulsa and raised in Claremore. My family is still there. I'm not surprised at the amendment, but Coburn? Didn't he say that the Cherokees weren't "real Indians" or some stupid shit?

[curlyred]

31. Born in Macon GA, grew up outside of OKC

my dad's family is from Amarillo TX.

[Dzimbowicz]

32. South Carolina

Currently residing in the upstate, but I consider Columbia my first home and Litchfield my second.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

33. My peeps have been in TX since long before it was a state

1782 to be exact. Before that, we were in Georgia. Before that, Wales and Scotland.

So we've never lived anywhere in America but the south.

I live in the Dallas area.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

34. North Alabama here!

[ulysses]

35. east side of metro Atl

[argyl]

38. North Central Texas, Denton.

[WestHoustonDem]

40. Houston Texas

[CottonBear]

41. Athens-Clarke County, GA

I'm a NC native and grew up in Chattanooga. My Scots-Irish ancestors came over from Ireland in the 1700's and settled in the beautiful mountains of western NC. One of my aunts married Davey Crockett .

My community is under siege by Republicans who've manged to pass a non-partisan voting referendum. So in four years time, Republicans disguised as Democrats will try to take over and ruin our progressive city-county. Much work awaits us.

[recovering democrat]

79. HI "cousin".

It's a small world! My great-grandmother was a Crockett too.

[CottonBear]

100. Davey was an in-law so I'm related by marriage.

That makes us cousins in-law I suppose! Nice to meet you!
My Aunt Elizabeth (Robert Patton's daughter) married Davey and my (several greats)Grandfather Robert Patton was the executor of Davey's estate. Robert Patton was a mill owner who came over from Ireland in the 1700's.

[EstimatedProphet]

42. Columbus GA

I can at least say that Muscogee Co. went Democratic...

[RubyDuby in GA]

59. Hello there Muscogee Co!!!

I know some great Democrats down your way! :hi:

[pookieblue]

88. another one from Columbus, Ga

:hi:

[Endangered Specie]

43. North Carolina

:)

[qnr]

44. Cordell, Oklahoma

for a while, at least.

[AlFrankenFan]

45. A Virginian trapped in California

If you'll allow me :D

I lived seven years of my life in Richmond and Fairfax.

[JohnKleeb]

51. aww you consider yourself one of our kind

Good for you.

[bluedonkey]

46. Baton Rouge

in beautiful Louisiana.
I adopted the South as my home 22 years ago,after living in MN for three years.I'm from Germany and I ain't leaving!
People up Nawth will never understand the South,too complex.
I met more racists and nutjobs in MN than anywhere(and they considered normal)

[Maddy McCall]

52. Very true...that people in other regions will never understand...

the complexity of the South.

Hi, neighbor. :hi:

[NRaleighLiberal]

47. North Raleigh for me....originally a Rhode Islander, then......

TO NH, to WA, PA - then to NC (work in a major Pharma co).....

[GoBlue]

48. Tennessee

Retired faculty from UT Knoxville. Originally from Michigan with stops in Buffalo, Rochester MN, and St. Louis.

[Mrs. Venation]

116. Hey, I'm From Tennessee, Too!

I was born in Maryville, grew up in Clinton. Relocated the the metropolitan Washington, DC area 22 years ago.

My family is still in Clinton. And Tennessee is where I feel most at home; my family settled there in the mid-18th century.

[aquaman]

49. Columbia, SC

[Dzimbowicz]

101. Hello homie!

I grew up in the Lake Katherine area, then in Shandon after returning home from the Marines. I now live in the upstate and I'm homesick as heck. Oh, I how I miss the place.

I'm am so glad Richland County went blue earlier this month.

:hi:

[aquaman]

104. Hi yourself,

My wife an I actually live in the Little Mountain area which is in Newberry County which did not go blue this year. We are about 30 miles from Columbia which is where we both work. We just moved out here, wanted to live out in the "country."

[sonias]

50. Austin, TEX-ASS

Big blue heart in a red state.

:evilgrin:

Sonia

[patricia92243]

53. Asheville, NC - "Land of the Sky"

[No Passaran]

56. GA

I used to live in North Carolina. I call Georgia my home now but I have never stopped following news in North Carolina.

I'm still a fan of UNC, Panthers and Bobcats (I spent so much money on TV packages this year just to watch them play)

[supernova]

57. North Carolina, RTP area

This is a very good idea. :D

[groundpilot]

71. right here with ya!

'bout a half mile up the road from the Streets at Southpoint.

[jdj]

60. Union County, NC

next to Charlotte.

Home of the working-class poor people who vote against their own best interests.

[kayell]

61. Upstate South Carolina, originally from Southern Maryland/Virginia

[xultar]

62. GA, heart of Bubbaville USA

[DemBones DemBones]

63. Gaw-jah, up in the Piedmont.

Growing up in a military family, I also lived in Florida (several times), South Carolina, Virginia (several times), Tennessee, Illinois, and overseas.

[dsewell]

64. Charlottesville, blue island in the Red Sea

Charlottesville, Virginia. Actually I live outside the city in Albemarle County, in a precinct that went to Bush by a slim majority, but we were very proud that Albemarle County went to Kerry, reversing the 2000 results. C-ville proper is of course heavily Democratic, with 72% of the vote going for Kerry.

I'm a Californian married to a native Virginian, and I'll probably never be able to call myself a "Southerner" without reservations (I would have had no problem with "Virginian" if the Commonwealth had gone for Kerry this time around). I'm actually happier living in the semi-rural South than I ever was living in the Northeast (Connecticut, Philadelphia area, western New York), even though my politics were more at home there; the pace and tenor of life south of the Mason-Dixon line feels more familiar to a Southern Californian than it does up North. Lived in Tucson for seven years in the '90s and would go back in a heartbeat if it were just up to me.

[Tweed]

65. Chicago, IL, but I want to stay up to date on Southern politics

It pisses me off at how much other DUers throw away the South. We have so much potential for growth in this region. I'm glad this group exists so we can all work together to build in the South.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

93. I lived in Chicago for a couple of years (too cold for me).

My best friend still lives there.
Thanks for seeing our potential.

[jefferson_dem]

66. Just outside Atlanta, GA here. Live outside, work inside the perimeter.

Those familiar with the Atlanta area will appreciate what that means. Basically, inside 285 (the perimeter) is the lone bastion of blue in a sea of blood red. As i travel downtown, i gradually start to see fewer and fewer chimp stickers and the air gets fresher and fresher. Gotta keep fighting!

[doni_georgia]

73. Going inside the Perimeter is good for the soul. I miss living in town.

[Rowdyboy]

67. Central Mississippi....Turn left at the barn in Gluckstat and go 'bout

three miles to Hwy 51. Turn left. It'll carry you straight to the house, right down the street from the court house. Look for the crape myrtles!

[RebelOne]

69. Just north of Atlanta in Woodstock, GA

I'm in Cherokee County, which is just about 100% Republican. I was born in Philadelphia, PA, grew up in Miami, FL and moved to Georgia in 1989.

[akwapez]

74. SE Tennessee

[recovering democrat]

78. Clayton County GA

Born in Atlanta, grew up in Decatur, and I have lived in Clayton County for the past 30 years, while it grew and changed from primarily Democratic to Republican and now back to really "blue" Democratic. We even survived Newt Gingrich as our (least favorite) congressperson. Most of the Republicans I know are as upset with Bush as we are over the deficits and Iraq and the rest are "born-again" hypocrites. I am enjoying quoting new New Testament verses to them which, if nothing else,makes them go away.

[doni_georgia]

80. I used to live in Morrow

We moved to Morrow - graduated from Morrow High School a zillion years ago. Dreamed last night I moved back to Clayton County.

[comsymp]

81. Eastern NC born and raised

Currently (and hopefully for a long, long time to come) just outside the Triad~ got the best of ALL worlds!

[BlackVelvetElvis]

92. East? What part?

My mother is from Columbus county. I still have family there.

[comsymp]

96. Columbus, huh?

Ahh, the fond childhood memories of traveling thru Riegelwood on a summer morning... ;-)

Actually, one of my favorite memories is of skiing on Lake Waccamaw- didn't see any alligators, though!

I was born in Clinton, raised (mostly- we moved a lot) in Fayetteville, and spent most of the past 20 years in Greenville, Raleigh and Wilmington- couple years out of state. Moved to Asheboro last year.

Most of (the NC branch of) my family is from Sampson and Craven Counties.

[SCDem]

82. York County South Carolina

Not where I am from but where I currently reside.

[upsidedown]

84. Northeastern NC

in Halifax County -- which went for Kerry by almost 20 points. :-)

[vetwife]

85. Temple, Georgia

[Shopaholic]

87. South Carolina

sad to say.

[giasangria]

89. north alabama

[BamaLefty]

99. Andalusia, Alabama

Where the fools around me voted:

74%- Bush

26%- Kerry

:hurts:

[MelissaB]

111. Florence, Alabama

It's good to know I'm not alone!!

:hi:

[yellowdogintexas]

98. Fort Worth Texas

but I grew up in Kentucky and lived in Nashville for 13 years.
And I lived in Evansville Indiana which really should be in Kentucky

[BamaGirl]

102. I'm from Atlanta, live in se Alabama now. nt

[Frogtutor]

105. Fort Worth, TX here, hi ya'll! n/t

[Lone_Star_Dem]

106. Central Texas

The beautiful Highland Lakes area. It really is lovely here.

[Spider Jerusalem]

107. Griffin, Georgia, about 35 miles south of Atlanta.

Southern edge of the ATL metro area. Lots of job loss in the textile industry here, too (the area's major source of emploment was te textile industry, until about a decade ago wen all the mills closed and the textile companies moved their operations overseas). And this area hasn't been experiencing the same growth as the rest of the Atlanta metro area thaks to absurdly high property taxes (some of the highest in the state) and general the general shortsightedness, stupidity, corruption and small-town mentality of the county and city officials.

[slutticus]

108. Tullahoma TN....Then I lived in Nashville...

...Now I live in Houston TX

[quaoar]

109. Central Alabama

State motto -- "We Dare Defend Our Rights"

According to a Birmingham News-Age Herald article by Marie Bankhead Owen (the director of the state Archives) dated April 23, 1939, she came upon the idea while searching for "a phrase that would interpret the spirit of our peoples in a terse and energetic sentence." A part of a poem entitled "What Constitutes a State?" by the 18th-century author Sir William Jones found in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations includes the stanza "Men who their duties know. But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain."

[nclib]

110. Durham, NC

:hi:

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

113. Originally from Newport News, VA; went to college in Norfolk where I

met my future husband and we now live in Richmond. Underpants and some other DU'ers live here, too. Shalom y'all!

[NC_Nurse]

114. Originally from Atlanta

but been in NC for 25 years. I live in Chapel Hill, the blue refuge in central NC!

I LOVE the South, wish we could get more people to wake up and realize they're being shafted by the Repubs!!!

[Penndems]

115. 12th generation Virginian here

Currently residing with Hubby in Woodbridge. Greetings to all my fellow Southerners! :)

[Queen Jane]

117. Charleston, SC here...

born in Nashville TN, where some of my family still lives, and part of my family lives in New Orleans, LA. :)

[Dob Bole]

118. Southwest Georgia-by-way-of Florida Panhandle-by-way-of-Southwest Alabama

My dad's a preacher, (and became so when I was about 10) so we started moving around after that.

[Stump]

119. Lynchburg, VA

That's right...Jerry Falwellville, USA.

[Politicub]

120. I'm from beautiful Western, NC

But now live outside of Atlanta.

Since graduating from college 12 or so years ago, I've been fortunate enough to live in the SF Bay and Los Angeles before moving back to the southeast to be closer to my mom and dad (the burden of being an only child). I never appreciated the mountain culture before I moved away from it.

I think the attitudes of California and the left coast are more compatible with who I am today, but it was a gift to see Appalachian culture from the outside for a period of time. It made me want to know more about the rich history of my Scottish, Irish and German ancestors who came before me to make a life in the mountains.

[RebelOne]

121. Woodstock, GA, just northwest of Atlanta

[ashling]

122. Texas

Dad was from Texas, Mom from Mississippi. I have a lot of relatives in Miss. I went to school there (Millsaps) and Law School (Mississippi College) and have lived there a lot. But now my wife and I (who is from Mississippi) are back in Texas. My mother in law lives in Miss.
so I'd have to say TEXASSIPPI.

[tnlefty]

123. SE TN currently.

I grew up in a tiny town in N GA.

[NOLALady]

124. New Orleans born and raised.

Family has been here for at least 9 generations. Some of them anyway.

I'm currently on the Northshore, across the Lake and about 30 miles from the city.

I've been here 20 years.