A view from the reddest of red states - Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain.

[redstatebluegirl]

104. We have lived here 12 years

I truly ask myself that question on a regular basis. What I have found is the lack of education has a lot to do with it. A great many of the people I have met here do not read anything past a comic book now and then. They let their pastors tell them how to vote and how to think.

If they do read, it is the trash rag in OKC the Oklahoman, something right of Limbaugh. They all vote straight ticket republican no matter what! Our state legislature is trying to push through a law that will get all of the oil and gas companies (as well as other large businesses) off the hook for paying taxes on most of their intellectual property (I use that term very loosely down here). It will force the cities and counties to raise taxes to pay for roads, schools all of the basics but because our Governor is selling it as a great thing they will no doubt vote for it.

I live with a bunch of dumb sheep..... There are some progressives down here like us, but we are terrified to speak out, I don't write letters to the editor or anything since we work for the university. Not a wise thing for sure....

I disagree with the original post in this thread a bit, I do see fewer Republican signs and stickers but I know they are all still out there, nut jobs everyone. Democrats down here would be a moderate Republican anywhere up north. Not really Democrats as I knew them.

Not all of us are nuts, but we are certainly in the minority and silenced for the most part. If you like your job you keep your mouth shut and listen.