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North Carolina mens basketball team announces they will not go to White House (Original Post) KelleyKramer Sep 2017 OP
Yes! This needs to happen in every sport through out the country...n/t Upthevibe Sep 2017 #1
I'm surprised and gratified Warpy Sep 2017 #2
Actually , I live here and we were progressive octoberlib Sep 2017 #4
Good for you guys. Declaring what is right and good about our country is Hortensis Sep 2017 #6
This doesnt surprise me at all. octoberlib Sep 2017 #3
Sad, but the best way to honor the presidency in this era is to reject this perversion. Hortensis Sep 2017 #5

Warpy

(111,254 posts)
2. I'm surprised and gratified
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 03:16 AM
Sep 2017

In the days before the televangelist craze and Jesse Helms, NC was the most progressive state in the south, Bobby Jones and all.

This gives me hope that when the sour old Republican farts die off, it can be again.

octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
4. Actually , I live here and we were progressive
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 03:55 AM
Sep 2017

until Repubs took control of the legislature for the first time in a century in 2012. We had an award winning Medicaid program, some of the best voting laws in the nation, and were 4th in the country for solar. And in each election since then, Dems would have regained control of the legislature if it weren’t for extreme gerrymandering.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. Good for you guys. Declaring what is right and good about our country is
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 08:23 AM
Sep 2017

a very important way of standing up for it and fighting those who would destroy it.

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