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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow about some here throttle back the insults?
All of us in Florida aren't idiots or MAGAs. There are a hell of a lot of very GOOD Democrats who work fucking hard and donate money to get our candidates elected.
Cool it.

Dumpy
(101 posts)flying_wahini
(8,060 posts)I feel your pain.
hamsterjill
(15,775 posts)I live near San Antonio.
Aviation Pro
(14,229 posts)Will not allow the state to move forward.
ramedy
(185 posts)I personally know several former DJT supporters who voted for Harris. You don't know shit.
Bev54
(12,389 posts)in the last 4-8 years. I guess they replaced all those that were killed off by the virus.
ramedy
(185 posts)Gee, who does that sound like?
LOL
Bev54
(12,389 posts)Whiskeytide
(4,542 posts)TomSlick
(12,348 posts)Imagine if you lived in Arkansas.
DemonGoddess
(5,126 posts)I live in Indiana
Dem4life1234
(2,531 posts)But also a lot of shitty MAGAts who ruin it.
I think folks are irritated because that state had so much potential and Dems have won quite a few times there. We hate seeing it destroyed by these maga turds.
Bev54
(12,389 posts)the state or the senate race. She went to Texas for the senate race.
KarenS
(4,917 posts)Maru Kitteh
(30,092 posts)I live in Montana. If we keep this senate seat it will be to Democrats who wore their good boots out here on the ground.
hlthe2b
(109,288 posts)(Colorado) successfully, I'm with you!
Iris
(16,346 posts)yaesu
(8,622 posts)nolabear
(43,670 posts)A massive number of wonderful people are just negated. Prejudice is prejudice. And it sounds just like what the right does.
TwilightZone
(28,835 posts)In fact, at times, it can be pretty dominant, such as election nights.
From a Texan, I couldn't agree with you more.
Groundhawg
(1,130 posts)brer cat
(26,902 posts)There are great Democrats everywhere and we work very hard in red states.
Emile
(34,184 posts)and I would never take it as a personal insult to the Democrats who live here.
electric_blue68
(21,050 posts)TBF
(35,085 posts)
jayschool2013
(2,574 posts)And there are more progressive Democrats in Florida than there are in Vermont.
Bayard
(24,793 posts)People get really nasty about Kentucky, too.
berkerly6240
(88 posts)Cirsium
(2,364 posts)It is bad enough that we are divided up by these arbitrary geographic boundaries into "states," and that it gives the right wing a built in political advantage. But for Democrats here to buy into that nonsense and group people according to which side of some boundary they live is really inexcusable.
If it were not for the anti-democratic electoral college and Senate configuration, we would not even be talking about states tonight.
There are more Democrats in Texas (5,259,126 ) than there are in Oregon (1,340,383), or in Connecticut (1,080,831), or in Hawaii (366,130), or in Vermont (242,820). That is based on the votes or Biden in 2020.
You can add Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts. Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, ad Washington to that list. There were more Biden voters i Texas in 2020 than there was in any of those "blue" states.
California - population 38,965,193 - 2 seats in the Senate.
Wyoming - population 584,057 - 2 seats in the Senate.
Wyoming - population 584,057 - 2 seats in the Senate.
District of Columbia - population 678,972 - 0 seats in the Senate.
Puerto Rico - population 3,205,691 - 0 seats in the Senate.
Voter suppression; slavery era anti-democratic systems; dark money; monopolization of the media. Lots of things to blame. Lots of things to fight for.
surfered
(6,332 posts)SunImp
(2,471 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,661 posts)Same for Oklahoma.