Imagine a world without red states. Without the southern states, the rest of us would enjoy:

[The Straight Story]

120. You say it like it is a bad thing:

"big on 2nd amendment rights"

I live in Ohio, a state that switches it mind all the time when it comes to president.

Some of them rural folk hate Obama/dems because they actually have uses for their guns, they are not the ones living in cities shooting up people, but they are the ones being impacted by less than what 1% of gun owners do with their guns.

It might be akin to conservatives wanting to ban faster internet speeds and anon browsing because of illegal porn and then wanting you have to use to your real name on all web sites, etc.

Wouldn't matter who the candidate was, people would not like them based on the ideas of the party when it came to that issue.

"large cities in yankee land are the oases of blue for the most part. "

What is needed in large cities is not needed/wanted in small towns and it is the arrogance of those in such places thinking they know what is best for others that leads to that whole 'liberal elite' image. You all can't handle a gun without going nuts and killing each other on a regular basis? Well, folks out in the country don't have that issue.

It is like the religion of a big church trying to tell smaller ones how to operate.

Yeah, people do need to get out of their bubbles and realize we don't all live in some cramped, crime ridden, city and that gomer out in Byesville, Ohio does not need some guy in a city 80 miles away telling him how to live.