Wait, You're an Atheist AND a conservative?

[Heddi]

11. Most of my conservative friends are from the south, where i grew up

They were raised in traditional conservative southern baptist republican homes. They got married right out of high school, had 23940 babies, go to church, live in the trailer, husband #2 works as a mechanic or wife #2 works through those "sales party" things where you sell awful candles to your friends.

This is a LARGE number of the conservative republican friends I have.

There are quite a few that went from that ^^^ to buying the tea-party Libertarian bullshit YEAH WHY SHOULD I PAY FOR SOME BLACK WOMAN"S BABBYS!@?!??! and saw Sarah Palin as some messiah and that's when I started dropping them like flies. They feel that republicans are too liberal, that George Bush was to the left of Obama...

My republican friends (and please know I use the term "Friends" as lightly as possible. THey're not coming to my house, we're not raising kids together, and the extent of my interaction with them is sharing youtube videos of cute cats and goats that scream like jerry lewis) are just dumb southern rednecks. They aren't enlightened. They're not interested in race relations...but they don't spam my wall with racist meme's about Obama. They're anti-abortion, but they're not putting pictures of dead fetuses on my page.

the libertarians are. I just find them to be so much more base, so much nastier.

Again, maybe it's because i grew up in a poor southern city/town and most of my classmates have stayed poor, stayed southern, and live within 15 miles of where they were born and grew up