2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: NC FACTS--not pundit BS or pollster malarkey--Look at the numbers--FINAL UPDATE #10 [View all]Hulk
(6,699 posts)I'm a real "bigot" when it comes to the states "in the South"...but I have high hopes for Virginia and North Carolina. I say I'm a bigot because I've traveled through the states, studied the Civil War at great length, and have met hundreds of people from the South in my travels; and my conclusion is simply North Carolina and Virginia were simply "in the wrong place" during the Civil War, and are in the wrong place geographically today. These two states simply don't fit the Southern mold.
The Reconstruction is still working in most of the rest of the South, especially the countryside. But then, that's probably true about most of the country when I stop and think about it.
We really need to get a voice out in the urban areas via radio. You can get rush and vannity on as many as FOUR channels, and possibly more, at one time in some places, but NO progressive voice at all, except near the major metropolitan areas. Without a voice, we haven't a chance to reach the hearts of the rural America, and they're going to be living in "fox-reality" for ever.