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Related: About this forumSomething in the Water in the 6th CD
I was bored today so I googled the Sherburne County Tea Party. Boy what a trek into tinfoil land. Words cannot describe now nutty and paranoid they are up there as part of the 6th CD, Bachmann turf.
http://sites.google.com/site/sherburnecountyteaparty/
Just looking at the "ads" on the right, any environmentalism is "fascism", then they go to Health Care is Communism the next "ad" down. Talk about divergent views so close to each other, far right to far left. My head is spinning by trying to read this nonsense. Remember, this is the base the GOP is reaching out too.
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Something in the Water in the 6th CD (Original Post)
CatholicEdHead
Mar 2012
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Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)1. Try Stearns County---similiar
Lots of Fundie Lutherans and Baptists. Families are inter related more than any other area of the state. The Syndrome lives.
mahina
(20,518 posts)2. Was it always like that? Or is this the Fox Effect?
Any other ideas about how this came about?
I always thought of people up there as so sensible.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)3. Second generation Eourpean imigrants
Mostly white,strong patriarchal in social terms. Older folks only High School educated at best,inter related huge families.
