Reply #11: Virginia I understand, a bit. So much military/government infrastructure

[mcscajun]

down there, it's practically a "company state". I visit friends down there quite a bit, and see very few signs of Democratic activity. Although, this past month, I did see two kids holding up signs at a strip mall; one said, "Impeach Bush", so there is hope everywhere.

NJ, where I live, is a patchwork quilt, with a lot of big money counties leaning primarily Republican, and the cities leaning Democratic. I attribute our reddish tint, in part, to Republican New Yorkers moving to the "safe, white suburbs" of NJ and snuggling into the "I've got mine, the hell with you" mindset. I know, two of my sisters did just that elsewhere in the state. The counties close to NYC are more Democratic, though, with a lot of residents still tied by their professions or occupations to NYC.

Here in Morris County, our Democratic Party organization has just been getting off the ground and becoming a force in the last couple of years, but it's an uphill battle. Even the little town I live in, primary working-class homeowners who've lived here for generations, somehow is Repbublican; it makes no sense to me!

Yet, with all of that, we have a Democratic governor and two Democratic US Senators. Thank goodness!