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renie408

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13. Six months ago I would have told you I loved living here.

Reply to Warpy (Reply #10)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 01:44 PM

Sep 2012

I was born in Charleston, SC and raised in the south. It is just home and FEELS right to me. I love the fact that you can get into a discussion in the check out line at the Food Lion for ten minutes, that people still stop and talk to each other in the middle of the road, that cars stop for funerals and that kids here say 'Yes, ma'am' and 'No, sir.'

I made it through the past three elections and NEVER felt this angry that I recall. Maybe I am just getting over it. Maybe what I like is the small town feel of where we live and I just need to find a liberal small town.

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I swear to fucking god, I think I literally just felt something pop in my head. [View all] renie408 Sep 2012 OP

I avoid strokes by taking aspirin daily, getting up and walking on airplane fights, and... Poll_Blind Sep 2012 #1

Oh. My. God. renie408 Sep 2012 #5

And the next motherfucker that tells me that we should not spend any more money renie408 Sep 2012 #2

we should not spend any more money ProdigalJunkMail Sep 2012 #15

No, I am calming down. renie408 Sep 2012 #17

we should do what we can to abandon the region altogether... ProdigalJunkMail Sep 2012 #25

unfriend them Faux pas Sep 2012 #3

you might consider asking your doctor about aspirin regimen grasswire Sep 2012 #4

Which sick, fucked up, backward, inbred, intolerant, ignorant state? get the red out Sep 2012 #6

The GLORIOUS state of South Carolina. renie408 Sep 2012 #8

I fled your northern neighbor in the late 60s Warpy Sep 2012 #10

Six months ago I would have told you I loved living here. renie408 Sep 2012 #13

I'm a blatherskyte IRL Warpy Sep 2012 #23

Drive north to Chapel Hill, NC and you will find yourself in a liberal small town. mnhtnbb Sep 2012 #27

In 2008 my DH's Uncle from SC came to visit get the red out Sep 2012 #16

SC... oh jeeze I'm a so sorry. I drove through there recently to go to Charleston TalkingDog Sep 2012 #19

A (aka Warpy) Northern neighbor here nc4bo Sep 2012 #20

The worst one is my farrier. renie408 Sep 2012 #22

Go with your first instincts....wouldn't surprise me at all. nc4bo Sep 2012 #24

Fortitude, friend renie, remember that by far most of them have nothing but repeated patrice Sep 2012 #7

You don't understand. renie408 Sep 2012 #11

GOOD work! You ARE a stronger person than I. I hope you give yourself a break - AND - patrice Sep 2012 #12

Facebook is full of idiots Egnever Sep 2012 #9

I know the feeling, my friend! I live in Missouri and grew up in Oklahoma LongTomH Sep 2012 #14

I've had to unfriend a few people on FB for political stupidity rox63 Sep 2012 #18

Two items for your to-do list: Brigid Sep 2012 #21

I'm told that's a "political fail", and you should include everyone, LOL just1voice Sep 2012 #26