Best Part of Living in a Red State?

[DemocraticWing]

62. It's not all bad.

People on DU tend to ignore this, but it's not like Southern states are unanimously conservative. Sure there are going to be backwards doofuses if you live in a particularly bad area, but big cities and college towns are almost always pretty liberal. Even the small towns have their charms, and I'd warn you from just assuming everyone is a Republican even if the representatives are. Republicans like to keep poor people from voting everywhere, and the South is the prime example of that, so the representatives don't always indicate how the average person feels.

Even when you see Republicans win with 60-70% of the vote, please understand that having 30-40% on your side means that in a room of 1000 people, there are a few hundred Democrats and a couple hundred more who are probably moderate Republicans. It's even more important to remember that in the parts of the south (Georgia, much of Kentucky, etc.) which are 55-45...in these places you're not too far away from being a swing state.

Also there's lots of good food in the South, and if you know where to look, a distinct culture that does create worthy experience. Not everything is radio country, there's plenty of alternative music coming out of the South too. And any city or college town worth its salt has a symphony. Southerners are also very interested in their own history, and if you like that kind of thing, there are history museums and historical sites all across the region.