Do you live in a red state

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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[Wounded Bear]

1. Blue district in a blue state...

but we have several red districts in the state, and I think at least a couple of them can be flipped.

[angstlessk]

2. Michigan...moved here from VA, and found they are MORE racist here!

[LeftInTX]

3. A red state that is trying hard to be redder of the reddest and is trying to outdo itself

every single chance that it gets.

Being the reddest isn't enough for them.

[kimbutgar]

4. I live in California and those areas who benefited the most by the ACA voted for chump

THe dumbfuckenstein parts of the state, who also have GOP reps.

[old guy]

5. I live in WI.

So yes, I live in a red state.

[wildeyed]

6. Not going to be easy for us if they gut O-care and replace it with the mess they passed today.

I am self-employed. No serious preexistings, but my insurance is already sky high. Sigh. It is sad to be forced to leave an entrepreneurial job where I earn good money and create value for the community because I can't afford it anymore because of HEALTH INSURANCE! But that is where I am heading.

This is why red states fail. They punish their creative class so we take our skills and and go pay taxes in places where we are appreciated. Sick of having my taxes taken, my votes stolen and nothing in return except insults. Fuck it. It gets really old. And fuck the state leaders who get GREAT state health insurance but screw me on mine.

So much worse for those on a fixed income who lack the resources to leave or find other employment. Those people will suffer more than necessary. Some will die.

[Wounded Bear]

12. Feature, not a bug...

Repubs want to keep people in wage slavery. I always figured that O'Care would open up the entrepreneurial spirit. Many people cannot afford not to work in a corporate job, even as they get scarcer and scarcer.

[wildeyed]

19. The economy has changed.

Hardly anyone works at the same career for a lifetime, much less the same company. It is all contract work and gigs and small businesses now. And small business adds more to local economies too. Jobs and profits don't get outsourced the way big companies do. Corporate talent isn't taxed as extravagantly, but they sill want good public schools and nice public amenities. Things the GOP despises. Cities and states who can attract the talent win because that creates more jobs and increase the local tax base. The ones that don't are dying.

The GOP doesn't care. They would rather let their states die economically than change or risk getting voted out of power. Lets be real. Most of us mobile workers don't vote the 'right' way. If you are mentally and emotionally flexible enough to navigate the perils of self employment successfully, rigid RW ideology probably doesn't appeal. So they are driving us out by making it too expensive and uncomfortable to stay, I guess. Killing the goose who laid the golden egg, IMO, but you can't reason with them.

[janterry]

7. Left Florida

and am in Vermont. I'll never go South again. Not even for vacation.

[Greybnk48]

8. Yes. Wisconsin. n/t

[liberaltrucker]

9. I do now (PA). nt

[Wounded Bear]

14. I'm hoping for a bounce back in PA...

[liberaltrucker]

18. Me, too

*fingers crossed*

[Different Drummer]

10. Yes, Georgia. n/t

[smirkymonkey]

11. No, thank god! I live in a very blue city in a very blue state.

At this point, I will never move unless I leave the country.

[standingtall]

13. Live in Kentucky

the only blue district left in Kentucky. Geez hate what has happen to my state over the last 20 years.

[Shandris]

15. Home of Pence, right here.

Aren't I so lucky...

[Wounded Bear]

20. Well, you did get rid of him...

sort of.

[LostOne4Ever]

16. Texas. Nt

[yortsed snacilbuper]

17. I live in Pennsyltucky.

[EarthFirst]

21. No. (New York)

Although outside the four major cities and Manhattan; New York is very, very red.

[blueinredohio]

22. Yes

1 dem senator, 1 rep senator who say neither one will vote for Trumpcare (hopefully Portman doesn't sell us out, I know Brown won't). My misrepresentative is a scrawny little chicken shit who's afraid of his own shadow and does nothing but vote with his party and collect a paycheck. Sorry for the rant.

[Behind the Aegis]

23. Can't get anymore red than Oklahoma.