I want to talk frankly about the south hate here

[hifiguy]

124. Your point is entirely valid.

Those of us who do not live in the South or in border states come to judgments, which are not entirely fair, based on the elected politicians we see from those states. And the evidence in that regard is, for the most part, appalling, it must be admitted, on the levels of governor and US Senator. Somebody is delivering significant majorities for these drooling cretins from southern and border states. I know it's not DUers or liberals, but the sort of politicans that are elected in any state does say something about the majority in that state, especially when it goes on for a couple of generations. Texas, for example, hasn't had a governor who could use toilet paper without one-syllable instructions printed on each sheet in nearly twenty years.

No place is immune from having goofball reichwing cretins elected. Speaking for my native upper midwest see Michele Bachmann and Snotty Scotty Walker and that human dildo Sensenbrenner - but we also have or had people like Al Franken, Russ Feingold and Paul Wellstone and Mark Dayton elected to high office in the near-past.

I have no doubts that there are many good, progressive people in the South and every other region of the country. Outsiders tend to conflate the politicians they see from a region with that region's population. Hubert Humphrey was Minnesota's face to the nation for many years, and his compassion, forcefulness on civil rights and championship of liberal causes was seen as the essence of Minnesota politics. Unfortuately, majorities in many southern and border states keep electing the most revolting, retrograde cretins to statewide office time and again.

I feel for the good, compassionate people who live in these states. It has to be hell.