5 Things Red State Liberals Want Blue State Liberals To Know

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86. So here's the thing. LA and MS are full of people just living.

There's a certain quirky admiration for the crooked politician even as there's a gleeful willingness to run them out on a rail if they get caught. But many people are closer to being independent, laissez faire entities than most anywhere else. The political system makes a political cause out of people who in many ways don't give a tinker's damn about it. I don't mean they don't want freedom or rights or help but there's such a deep distrust and dismissive ness about government that many don't think about it as anything but something to be gotten around. One of the tragedies of Katrina was that it tore apart underground societies and economies that worked well for generations, and all kinds of opportunists came in to fill in the holes, replacing family and community loyalty with governance and gangs.