Funny, to me anyway.

[Phoenix61]

I live in the very red Florida Panhandle. I was out having a beer and got to chatting with two guys at the bar. Not sure what I said that set the one guy off but apparently he found my “liberal attitude” offensive and suggested I leave. The owner of the bar was there and he was like “nope, this is that kind of place.” The look on the guy’s face was priceless. He definitely didn’t expect a big, old burly bar owner to be a card carrying, rainbow flag waving liberal.

[multigraincracker]

1. Can't judge a book by it's cover. n/t

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. I am the perfect example of that

old, white and living in the deep south. I should be, by apperances, a card carrying fascist.

[multigraincracker]

3. Pretty much the same here in

the rural North. I'm like some folks token Liberal friend.

[NNadir]

9. I'm old, fat, white, bald and ugly and have frequently been assumed to be the wrong kind of guy.

[Ferrets are Cool]

12. Oh, I forgot the bald and fat part.

[Poiuyt]

18. I'm old, fat, white, bald, ugly, AND I used to be in Rotary!

There were only a few of us in that club

[soldierant]

23. Isn't Rotary the one that's designed to have very few members

because there can only be one member who works in any given field? I may be mistaking it with another one.

Whichever it is, I remember there being a story that, when a new protestant pastor came to town and there was already a boship who was a member, they gor around it by calling the p[artor "Religion, retail" and the Bishop "Religion, wholesale."

[Poiuyt]

24. Basically correct

I left the club about 20 years ago, so I've forgotten some details. I seem to recall that there could be two people from each classification, and the first person would have an opportunity to blackball a new nominee in that classification (that rarely happened). And yes, they would get creative with the classifications if there was a nominee that they really wanted in the club. Those classification restrictions were rarely an issue.

[soldierant]

25. Thanks. That's very clear!

[orangecrush]

20. Same here.

[Tommymac]

13. Me too. Look like a biker bouncer - have actually been mistaken for one too.

Except I live in a working class area of Pittsburgh. Lots of QAnon idiots at the neighborhood dive pub I hang out at occasionally, but the owner though conservative, (a middle aged white gent who loves Irish whiskey, H40 and Reggae)takes no shit from racists, QAnon idiots or just plain obnoxious and threatening Right Wingers.

His policy is All are welcome (the neighborhood is quietly being filled up with Nepalese, Latin Americans and Vietnamese taking low paying working class jobs and moving into the low income housing nearby), no N or C word usage allowed at all, and everyone has to treat everyone else with respect or he will 86 their ass permanently.

[Ferrets are Cool]

14. ...

[PurgedVoter]

16. Me too, here in Texas, I look like a white cop

They don't even glance at me as the look around before spouting the most hateful racist idiocy.

[niyad]

4. That is what people get for making assumptions.

[packman]

5. Sounds like my stompin' grounds in the NW section of the Panhandle

Deep red (Matt's district) with a hostile attitude toward anything smelling of being a liberal. Interesting, though, the local rag has been critical of the gov. and Matt lately . There may be hope somewhere in the future.

[twodogsbarking]

6. The owner knows who makes trouble.

[Phoenix61]

8. Yep, the bar owner is a really great guy.

They have live music 6 nights a week and afternoon sessions on Saturday and Sunday. Yoga a couple nights a week. He’s openly liberal which is an oddity around here and has earned him a devoted clientele.

[calimary]

10. Good to hear. Sounds like he diffused a bigger conflict in your case.

Thanks for letting us know. And letting us know you had some good backup there. Things could easily have grown ugly.

[DanieRains]

7. It's A Bar

Drink is the number one rule.

[seta1950]

11. Same here

People always assume I am a conservative

[Atticus]

15. 👍 nt

[onecaliberal]

17. Same. If you're white they think you are one of them.

[Skittles]

26. I hate it when someone thinks I am a bigot like them

actually, maybe I like it because I let them have it, I make them very sorry they made that assumption; yes INDEED

[ancianita]

19. Thanks! Great to know two liberals are still on the FL panhandle! What's the bar's name?

I gotta go there one of these days!

[EmeraldCoaster]

21. There are more of us here than people think.

The ignorant fools are (slowly) loosing their grasp on the levers of control. Cheers

[Solomon]

22. You guys all make me feel good.

I love it!