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[Stonepounder]

46. Please don't lump everything Southern together.

Yes, there southern states that are governed by the Tea Party, but then again, there are some northern and southwestern states that are run by the Tea Party as well. However, if you look closely, many times the urban areas are reasonably liberal. It is the rural areas that vote in the Tea Party. We live in No KY, just across the river from Cincinnati.

When I retired, re bought a repo double wide mobile in a lovely, wooded, park. The lots are large and, since we are over 65, we get a 'homestead exemption' on our property tax that exceeds the assessed valuation of our home, which means we pay no property tax. Yes, it is predominantly white, but there are several black families living in the park as well and nobody thinks anything about it. The nice thing is that, since we bought our home outright, we pay only the lot rent (which is less than half the cost of a lot about 1/3 the size in the San Jose, CA area).

Yes, Ky has a couple of assh**e Senators, and the turtle, but the State government is pretty reasonable. We have a Dem Governor, Lt. Gov, and AG. Yes, they would have been Republicans 40 years ago, but then, so would most Dems. When they owner of the 'Creationism Museum' wanted to build a theme park based on the Bible, he managed to get some tax concessions from Frankfort based on the jobs it would create and the income it would bring into the state. When that same owner announced that only 'Christians' need apply to work in the park, Frankfort told him that unless he recanted his statement and agreed to hire anyone qualified. He refused and Frankfort pulled his tax concessions, effectively scuttling the project.

I have also spent time in the Research Park Triangle, in NC. Inside the triangle is probably pretty expensive, but the companies I was doing training for had multi-racial, multi-cultural work forces, working together with no apparent racism or prejudice.

So, please don't condemn the entire South, just because they get a lot of bad press.