Dixie Chicks Poll in Lubbock, Texas (Lubbock or Leave It) Please DU!!!!

[WiseButAngrySara]

This poll needs help! Let's shock the heck out of this city that still bans Dixie Chicks music, even though the lead singer was raised there. 80% say they won't buy the CD. Let's change those numbers! I've included the lyrics to the song "Lubbock or Leave it" and a link where you can listen to it. I've also included some of the comments that were posted on this news topic on their message board.

http://www.kcbd.com/

Do you plan to buy the new Dixie Chicks album?

Thank you for participating in our poll. Here are the results so far.

Yes 20%

No 80%


http://www.kcbd.com/Global/story.asp?S=4935097
<snip>

The song "Lubbock or Leave it" is fast paced and upbeat. Some listeners may not like what the lyrics say, while others won't get the chance to even hear it. Most Lubbock country stations are still not playing their music.

Country Radio station 99.5 The Bear is the only station playing the song in Lubbock. Radio personalities, Jane Prince-Jones and Rick Gilbert say for the most part, people want to hear it so they are playing it. "We don't like to sensor things around here and there has been a lot of publicity with this song. .....

KLLL and 105.7, The Rebel say they will not be playing the Dixie Chicks. They say it's simply because their listeners do not want to hear it.

"Lubbock Or Leave It"

Dust bowl, Bible belt
Got more churches than trees
Raise me, praise me, couldn't save me
Couldn't keep me on my knees
Oh, boy, rave on down loop 289
That'll be the day you see me back
In this fool's paradise

Temptation's strong
(Salvation's gone)
I'm on my way
To hell's half acre
How will I ever
How will I ever
Get to heaven now

Throwing stones from the top of your rock
Thinking no one can see
The secrets you hide behind
Your southern hospitality
On the strip the kids get lit
So they can have a real good time
Come Sunday they can just take their pick
From the crucifix skyline

Temptation's strong
(Salvation's gone)
I'm on my way
To hell's half acre
How will I ever
How will I ever
Get to heaven now
Get to heaven now

International airport
A quarter after nine
Paris Texas, Athens Georgia's
Not what I had in mind
As I'm getting out I laugh to myself
Cause this is the only place
Where as you're getting on the plane
You see Buddy Holly's face

I hear they hate me now
Just like they hated you
Maybe when I'm dead and gone
I'm gonna get a statue too

Temptation's strong
(Salvation's gone)
I'm on my way
To hell's half acre
How will I ever
How will I ever
Get to heaven now
Get to heaven now
How will I ever

Get to heaven now

Listen to the song here: http://www.kqbr.com/main.html

Examples of the message board on this topic:

Bless your old hearts.
Born and raised right here Lubbock
The album is great. In some instances it strays from their beaten path of bluegrass, they've traded in their fiddles for guitars, and while it's somewhat darker and more driven than previous endeavors it still manages to stay true to it's bluesy tail feather shakin roots. Lubbock or Leave it is exceptional.
Can any of you point out anything in the lyrics to "Lubbock or Leave It" that isn't true about our city?
I admire anyone who can stand up for what they believe and when the world spits in their face, they spit back.
So if Natalie has "made a mistake" and is now "paying the price" --- when willl Bush atone for his own sins?
This may be hard pill for you all to swallow, but try it with water.
**********
You don't have to do anything. You don't have to buy their music, nor do you have to tune in to 99.5 so you can "listen & note every advertiser" and contact each one by telephone threatning to "boycott" their business if they continue to advertise their services on a station that airs the Dixie Chicks, as you've said you will do. Who has the time for this? Are you employed? And why on earth would you do something so creepy and radical? Does it hurt you that deeply? The feelings must still be raw.
**********
Wonder when all of you objecting to the Dixie Chicks are going to start turning off Jay Leno and David Letterman???? they say and have said MUCh worse about Bushy than Natalie ever has! Yet, you keep watching them. Get off it, grow up, don't buy their music if you want, but stop depriving those of us who have nothing against them from hearing their music on ALL the radio stations.
**********
Ok, I was willing to let the Chicks slide after Natalie apologized. My problem with them is this: if you want to gripe about the president, fine. The protest happened outside of this country, and Natalie should have known better. Being a grown-up means knowing when to keep your trap shut, and poor Nat has yet to learn that lesson. As far as the song goes, so? What town does not have hypocrites? What does the song prove about Lubbock that isn't true about every other town in this country?
**********
Why do we care so much what these people in Hollywood think, like who you like but don't push it on me! The President of the USA deserves our respect, He is our commander and cheif do you want to live like they do in Iraq or China be glad you have your freedom of everything. Love your family and love your life, don't try to live through some movie star or a singer they are just people like you and me! The dixie chicks really??? I mean can you not see its a publicity stunt to spark their career so go ahead buy into it but i am not going to, there is too much life i want to live! i don't want to spend it fighting with random screen names about stupid issues!
Praise his name
**********
Ok, I agree that the death threats are over the edge. I would never threaten the lives of artists even if I strongly disagreed with their views. The first backlash that the Chicks experienced should have been enough. The right to speak does not automatically assume the right to be heard, or the right not to be offended. I think what we're seeing from the band now is just a tit-for-tat reaction. Stop throwing a fit, girls...just leave it be and go on with your singing. Entertainers have a habit of thinking that just because they can draw a crowd means that the audience wants their opinion on politics, the poor, minorities, etc. No. Most audiences go to a concert to be entertained and escape the world for an hour or two, not to hear some know-nothing spout off about world events.

[genieroze]

1. done

[varkam]

2. Done. 22% v. 78% n/t

[Alexodin]

3. Done!

[Erika]

4. done 23% yes n/t

[rodeodance]

5. No 76%

Pulse Poll
Do you plan to buy the new Dixie Chicks album?
Thank you for participating in our poll. Here are the results so far.
Yes 24%
No 76%
Tell us what you think at the kcbd.com Message Boards

[rodeodance]

6. k

[rodeodance]

7. No 75%

Pulse Poll
Do you plan to buy the new Dixie Chicks album?
Thank you for participating in our poll. Here are the results so far.
Yes 25%
No 75%

[Erika]

8. Yes now 26% n/t

[Erika]

9. Yes now 26% n/t

[blonndee]

10. Wow! Love the lyrics. I'm asking for this album for my birthday

next month. If not, I will buy it myself (I would anyway but am mega broke.) This *IS* Lubbock and Natalie's giving them a big F you! I grew up an hour and a half from Lubbock and I only wish I could express my sentiments so eloquently.

Done, now up to 27%.

[WiseButAngrySara]

13. I'm from Houston, and lived here for just a short while, and everything

she says in the song, I can already relate to! Especially the churches (more churches than trees!) and the dust and the 'Christian' hypocrisy. I am not a fan of contry music, but I love everything I've heard them sing. I love the group, and I must admit it started because of their criticism of B*. It had the opposite effect on Lubbock residents!

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. From the station's message board

nine minutes after the OP:

D. Herman

Posted 22 May 2006 11:14 PM
This poll has been posted on the radically liberal website, Democratic Underground, with directions for skewing.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...&address=364x1262453

Posts: 5 | Registered: 22 May 2006

Methinks there's a mole afoot.

[WiseButAngrySara]

15. Damn! How does that happen? Someone here has to have posted this?

What happens now? Will we get in trouble? (a nervous :rofl:) Will they block our vote?

[Spazito]

50. Interesting, seeing as this is one of those polls where one can

vote repeatedly, why no notice that the freeper component is skewing as well. No bias at this news outlet I see, lol.

[WiseButAngrySara]

54. Thanks, I hadn't noticed that you can vote more than once! The article

did state that the local music stores had stocked up on the new Dixie Chicks CD...what a farce! They won't play their music, and, according to the poll, they won't buy the CD, the newscasters have been sanctimoniously disparaging about all of this, and YET, they stock their record stores with an oversupply of CDs that they don't expect to sell? Something is not adding up!

Too late to edit my post to reflect that one can vote repeatedly. I'm going to sign on and post a message thanking the FReeper for the great link to DU; not a far left site at all, just one where the truth is discussed!

[Spazito]

57. LOL, I hope you do post that message!

Poor freepers are very unhappy we can now hold our own against their freeping of the polls, rofl.

Disclaimer: I normally only vote once even when the polls are open to multiple voting, in this one, I voted twice to see if it would take my second vote, sadly, it did which makes it even more meaningless, imo.

[WiseButAngrySara]

74. Just did! Hope he likes it.

"Wow! thanks so much for the link to this great site! Radical? Since when is honest discussion radical? I'm joining the DU Community thanks to you. I think that an internet site which would be to your liking, and is truly radical is Free Republic.

Thanks again for the clue!!!!"




Heh-heh! I hope he likes my message. I had to sign on to a site I will never frequent again, and used the name Luna C (lunacy) appropriately...

[Spazito]

75. Good job!

No longer should their hunting grounds go unchallenged. I bet your post made his head spin, rofl!

[WiseButAngrySara]

76. Hey, I'm on a roll, and have just begun to fight! (Now, if I can only

find some really good Cheney ammo....Was it birdshot???)

:rofl:

[Spazito]

80. ROFL!

I almost feel sorry for the poor little freepers, NOT!

[Rosco T.]

12. Freeper crying in his beer...

a "D. Herman" is posting this in every thread on the forums of the website there..

"This poll has been posted on the radically liberal website, Democratic Underground, with directions for skewing.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1262453"

Waaa.. Waaaa.. Waaaa...

just signed on there and has 5 posts.. everyone like the above...

[WiseButAngrySara]

16. Anyway we can track him here and find out his identity? We're

radically liberal? Not me! At least until the radical RWers took over our media and our government!

[blonndee]

19. That exact message was posted in re to another poll recently

but I can't remember which one.

Ah well, at least we know the freeper troll/moles are so desperate they gotta do this kind of crap. :)

[WiseButAngrySara]

35. We should start doing the same thing with polls posted at whatever

that grotesque hellish site is...Free Republic? That's why I can't remember the name; it's name is a complete contradiction in terms! A Nazi-style Free Corporate owned, Corporate supported, wealthy only Republic. :sarcasm:

[libhill]

37. Screw him - and all the other right wing tittie babies...

I've had it with these right wing fuck wads throwing a shit fit over the Chicks criticizing Bush. Piss on 'em. They talk shit about Clinton to this day, and the man left office 5 years ago. They need to practice what they preach, or shut their god damn fucking mouths. Sorry about the profanity, but this crybaby right wing B.S. about the Dixie Chicks has been going on for way too long. I wish I was a millionaire, I'd buy everything the Chicks have on the market just to ass off the wing nut fuckwads. America is still a free country, despite their best Fascist efforts. And the Chicks have a constitutional right to say any god damn thing they want. And if Repukes have a problem with that, then THEY can god damn leave. America will be a better place without those Neo - Nazi scum suckers.

[WiseButAngrySara]

41. GREAT ' RANT ' libhill! I've had it too! ....n/t

[libhill]

42. Thank ya...

I'm not usually that foul mouthed, but I'm at the end of my tether with all this whining about the Dixie Chicks. I admire them for their courage, and for putting their beliefs and values ahead of money and career goals. I say more power to them. And "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take it any more"...

[WiseButAngrySara]

45. I'm mad as hell too, and that is exactly what your post reminded me of;

it's how I feel, and you could hear it in the Dixie Chicks when they performed on Letterman last night that they were NOT sorry. Lubbock or Leave it...they are getting their just rewards. I hope they become famous for their narrow-minded idiocy.

[Maestro]

89. I am not skewing the poll if I actually am buying the album

:)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

14. Done.

28% yes.

[WiseButAngrySara]

17. Kick for the Dixie Chicks! ....n/t

[Vidar]

18. done

[theHandpuppet]

20. An early morning kick for the Chicks!

Thanks for the heads up! :donut:

[Lethe]

21. i went to TTU, i feel what she is saying

and there are certainly more churches than trees.

Hell's half acre. thats about appropriate. The city council owns all those alcohol emporiums on the strip, and they wont ever make lubbock wet because they are making a fortune out there on the strip. And they got a whole bunch of cops always watching the I-27, looking for drunks driving the 5 miles home back to their house because they couldn't buy a six pack at the local gas station a block from their house.

i lost all respect for the whole Buddy Holly thing when his wife sold the rights to his name to another company. Before that they had a awesome jam called the Buddy Holly Festival every year in lubbock, and lots of cats would come to play. (chuck berry, etc) Now its just a lame excuse for a bunch of frat boys to get drunk and act disorderly.

[WiseButAngrySara]

34. I am here briefly I hope! Years ago my best friend moved to Lubbock

to go to medical school, and she wrote that they rolled up the sidewalks at 10:oo p.m., and it was a city of churches and dust! I can so relate to hers words now, and to the Dixie Chick's lyrics. They mention the ugly, infamous strip! I'm used to being able to buy good wine in grocery stores, and I was aghast that a city the size of Lubbock didn't sell it. When I ventured out to the strip for wine, I was hit with revulsion! Honestly, it is so ugly, it made me feel like a desperate alcoholic or a prostitute or something, because I had to go there to buy wine! You can't purchase it anywhere else in the city. I'm currently a tee-totaler, because I refuse to drive there. I was told that the most of the real estate here was owned by the former mayor (a major B*/Cheney contributor) and that he not only owned the strip, but most apartment complexes and restaurants...they sell alcohol in restaurants only, and make huge profits. So, it's not about good Christian values that went into the making of the strip, but valuing the good almighty god of profit. So I'm told anyway.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

79. TTU here, class of

'70. I so know what they're singing about. Can't wait to get the new CD.

[WiseButAngrySara]

87. Did you listen to the "Lubbock or Leave it" song at the link above?....n/t

[RebelOne]

22. Dupe.

[RebelOne]

23. Done. Needs some serious help from DU.

[Random_Australian]

24. Done 32%

[Sisaruus]

25. Done. 33%

[NoPasaran]

26. Done 34%

[Lochloosa]

27. 34% COME ON!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

28. Voted - but this is a waste of time. If, after all the overwelming

evidence that Junior is a criminal they still don't see it - there is no hope for these idiots.

[WiseButAngrySara]

38. LOL! You can see why she wrote the song Lubbock or leave it? ....n/t

[zanne]

29. Didn't they do the same thing to Janis Joplin?

I think she came from a small town in Texas. After she died, they refused to even admit that she had lived there. She had worldwide fame, but her own hometown would have nothing to do with her.

[Bridget Burke]

30. Janis came from Port Arthur.

It's a pretty big town--a refinery town on the Gulf Coast, near the Louisiana border. Far from Lubbock in West Texas. Janis's family always supported her, but Port Arthur answered her rejection of the town with rejection--for a while.

In 1988 some 5,000 people from Port Arthur, tears in their eyes, sang "Me and Bobby McGee" as a bust of Janis Joplin was unveiled. It now sits in a Port Arthur library.

www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/JJ/fjo69.html

Lubbock (like the Golden Triangle of Beaumont/Port Arthur/Orange) has been a fertile source for Texas music. But most musicians leave their little towns in search of fame--for New York, Nashville, San Francisco--or Austin, at least.

The city of Lubbock, however, was somewhat slower to recognize its most famous son. Not until the release of the movie The Buddy Holly Story in 1978 did the city begin to realize the tourism potential of Buddy Holly. In 1979 the city hosted a concert by Jennings and the Crickets to raise funds for a statue of Holly. The 8½-foot-tall bronze, by Grant Speed, was unveiled in 1980, near the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. In 1983 the city turned the area around the statue into a Walk of Fame honoring West Texas musicians.

www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/HH/fhors.html

Quite a few people in all the little towns remember their "stars" with affection.

Music in Texas? This list from the Handbook of Texas includes colleges with music schools, but also quite a few names, places & genres you might know. Or ought to know.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu:8080/tsha/search_hoto.jsp?collections=tsha-handbook&queryParser=Simple&queryText=music&Search=Search

[bmbmd]

31. And went on a blind date with

http://www.nndb.com/people/493/000022427/

truth is stranger than fiction, it would seem.

[WiseButAngrySara]

77. OMG! I just clicked on your link... Not THAT Bill Bennet!!! ....n/t

[Bozita]

32. 37% yes

[WiseButAngrySara]

33. a.m. KICK for the chicks! Thanks DUers for participating! ....n/t

[nonconformist]

36. Done. 40% yes, 60% no. nt

[WiseButAngrySara]

39. Fantastic! TY nonconformist! ....n/t

[Roxy66]

40. Done...n/t

[ComerPerro]

43. About the message you posted ending in "Praise his name"

does the writer mean Jesus, God, or Bush?

Its so hard to tell anymore

[WiseButAngrySara]

46. LOL! The Texas Trinity, don't ya know? One in Three, Three in One...

The Holy Spirit is left out of this Tejos Trinity, and that's an impossibility and a grave error.

[NoPasaran]

52. He might be referring to Tom Landry

Football is the actual religion here. All that Bible-thumpin' and catterwallerin' about Jesus is just to fill up the time when there's no football.

[WiseButAngrySara]

55. I think you're right about that one! Maybe instead of a Trinity, it's a

Quadripartite? God, B*, Jesus and Tom Landry?

[StellaBlue]

66. AMEN!

:D

[Booster]

44. Done and a kick for the Chicks.

[in_cog_ni_to]

47. 38% yes 62% no

Do you plan to buy the new Dixie Chicks album?

Thank you for participating in our poll. Here are the results so far.

Yes 38%

No 62%

[robbob]

48. done; but what a stupid question

Are they trying to gauge a reaction to the Chicks "radical" :eyes: views about junior? Because, if so, they should have asked something more along the lines of "Do you agree or disagree with ...." etc.

My intention to buy or not buy their latest release is no indication of the hearty support I have for their outspoken opposition to that POS who is running the country into the ground.

[WiseButAngrySara]

59. I agree, and wondered about the question myself. It's funny though,

as I noted above, that even though this poll reflects that most won't buy their CD (you can vote more than once though, I just found out), the news article on this site stated that local record stores have overstocked the Dixie Chick's new CD! They are anticipating a huge sellout! Doesn't add up, according to this poll result.

[Scoody Boo]

49. Those numbers reflect their popularity numbers in Texas...

pretty well. Our own Country station KGKL had a poll of their listeners to see if they wanted the Dixie Chicks ban lifted (no Dixie Chick music had been played since the "incident")and they did not even get a 25% favorable vote.

Texas has been bearing a grudge against them than anywhere else.

[NoPasaran]

51. Done again!

[kerry-is-my-prez]

53. Ironically- one of the stations that refuses to play it is called "rebel"

Maybe they should changetheir names to "establishment."

[StellaBlue]

56. Let's email that to 'em!

Seriously.

Fuckers.

[WiseButAngrySara]

61. This is an excellent idea! Attack them, like they did the Dixie Chicks.

I'm going to do some research on links and e-mail addies for these radio stations, and post them separately!

Great idea!

[StellaBlue]

63. I wish I could compile it - let me know what you get

I am all for it. We need to come up with a email that packs a punch to them, big time. Call them traitors, unpatriotic, etc. It's quite easy to do, since they are in REALITY against everything the Constitution stands for.

I would do it myself, but I am prepping for an interivew at 4pm!

:D

LOVE IT!

[WiseButAngrySara]

69. I will certainly let you know! It won't be until later this afternoon,

but I'll try to include all the biggies! I'm not a country-western fan myself, so I'm not even knowledgable about the local radio stations...that's why I have to research it.

GOOD LUCK ON YOUR INTERVIEW!!

:hi:

[StellaBlue]

58. done 36%

n/y

[StellaBlue]

60. OMFG - I'm FROM Paris, Texas!

I just listened to "Lubbock or Leave It" - thanks!!!

Rock on, Dixie Chicks!!!

I am going to buy this album RIGHT NOW.

[WiseButAngrySara]

64. How funny! Pais is EAST Texas, though, right? And they have

beautiful pine trees, like Houston, with no dust! Having the misfortune to have lived in Lubbock for a short while, I thought that part of their political lunacy came from the ghastly dust and absence of trees! There is minimal beauty here, IMHO.

[StellaBlue]

65. Not quite "beautiful pine trees"

we are culturally East Texas but geographically half East Texas, half North Texas. It's not as pretty as if you drive about 40 miles south or east.

But, yeah, Lubbock sucks. Why anyone would EVER go there is beyond me. Buddy Holly was the only good thing to ever come out of that place. Until now.

[IndyOp]

62. Done. Holding at 36% - need more DU votes! (n/t)

[Left_Winger]

67. Done

[WiseButAngrySara]

68. Update: YOU CAN VOTE MORE THAN ONCE! Currently; 37% Yes, 63% No

:kick:

[RareLubbockDem]

70. Done, and I'm listening to

the cd I got on Itunes first thing this morning. It's good stuff. I hope it stays at No. 1 for a long, long time......

(Can you imagine such remarks from a true Lubbockite???)

[WiseButAngrySara]

72. I love your name! All two of us! ....n/t

[Zhade]

71. That was my alarm-song this morning.

(I use a PC alarm that wakes me up to my mp3 collection.)

WONDERFUL album. Go get it, show these dumb hicks (I can say that, I'm from the south) that their hatred only makes us love the DC more!

[WiseButAngrySara]

73. I just rechecked the updated messages and some of them are so vile

and deluded that it makes me want to scream in rage or cry! Someone keeps posting the link to this OP, and calls DU a radical liberal site. I responded to him in kind just now!

Wow! thanks so much for the link to this great site! Radical? Since when is honest discussion radical? I'm joining the DU Community thanks to you. I think that an internet site which would be to your liking, and is truly radical is Free Republic.

Thanks again for the clue!!!!




Heh-heh! I hope he likes my message. I had to sign on to a site I will never frequent again, and used the name Luna C (lunacy) appropriately...

[Zhade]

92. And people wonder why it's so easy to bash the south.

So many of them bring it on themselves!

Dumbest. Fuckers. On. The. Planet. (Obviously not all - southern DUers very much excepted!)

I have stories that would make your skin crawl...

[WiseButAngrySara]

78. .. n/t

[SPKrazy]

81. done n/t

[Nikki Stone1]

82. Kicked, Recommended, Voted

:)

[GreenPoet64]

83. Done n/t

[sonias]

84. done

38& yes and climbing.

Go Dixie Chicks go!

Sonia

[Mr_Spock]

85. I just bought the Dixie Chicks CD tonight!!! WOOOT!!

I also bought Pink & Green Day.

I also bought a Chicago/Earth Wind and Fire DVD that I'm watching first :D

Edit - oh, and I voted Yes in the poll - lol

[WiseButAngrySara]

90. Glad you didn't forget to vote Mr._Spock! Enjoy your CD's. ....n/t

[Vincardog]

86. done Yes 39% No 61%

[Maestro]

88. Done -nt

[Breeze54]

91. Yes -- 39% < No -- 61% ------ C'mon DU !!!!!

Do you plan to buy the new Dixie Chicks album?
Thank you for participating in our poll.
Here are the results so far.
Yes 39%
No 61%

:kick:

[WiseButAngrySara]

93. "C'mon DU!" Thanks. You can vote twice! And, it's better than 80% No

like it was earlier.

[Breeze54]

94. Not anymore!! lol

Yes 40%
No 60%


I cheated and voted again! :evilfrown:

[Rockholm]

95. OMG! It's 95 Degrees @ 9:53pm EST.

In May, no less. That's just nasty!

[Mr_Spock]

97. I was shocked that it was 99 earlier

That place is f'ing hot!

[Breeze54]

101. Hey, no

offense but that is the southwest!!! :)

----------------------------
Typical southwest weather Texas for May.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ewx/html/wxevent/2006/mayclimate.htm

Cool weather outbreaks are much less common, although a few have been observed.
On May 1, 1907 the high was only 52 at Austin, with the low at 42. On May 6, 1917 the high was 52 at Austin and 56 at San Antonio. The combination of a cool front and rain gave Del Rio an unseasonably cool day May 3, 1918 when the high was 60 and 2.55 inches of rain fell. The lowest overnight low temperatures in May have sometimes come in drought years, like the low of 43 at San Antonio on May 9, 1984, and 45 at Del Rio on May 3, 1970. At the Austin City Climate location the lowest low for May was 40 May 1, 1925, another dry year. Austin Bergstrom's all time May low was 42 May 1, 2005.

In some years when droughts were broken in the summer, some of the warmest days of the year came in May. Although not a drought year, in 2004, the warmest day of the year for San Antonio and Del Rio came May 31. On May 31, 2004 the high was 104 at San Antonio and 107 at Del Rio. The 104 high at San Antonio was a May Monthly Record High. Austin nearly had its warmest day for Year 2004 on May 31, 2004; however, in August 2004 warmer days came at Austin. The high at Austin Mabry May 31, 2004 was 100, later exceed by 101 August 5, 2004, and the high at Austin Bergstrom was 99, later exceed by 100 August 5, 2004. The warmest day in May for the Austin City Climate location came May 24, 1925 when the high was 104, and at Austin Bergstrom 102 May 7, 1998. The warmest day at Del Rio in May came May 24, 2000 when the high was 109. On the other side of extremes for high temperatures, following mostly cloudy and wet winters and springs, some of the first 90 degree days have not come until May. On rare occasions the first 90 degree day has not come until June for Austin and San Antonio. The latest first 90 degree day at Austin was 91 on June 29, 1907 and for San Antonio 91 on June 8, 1885 and 90 on June 8, 1957. The latest first 90 degree day at Del Rio was 91 on May 22, 2004.

May Climate Information...

;)

[Mr_Spock]

102. Yes, I know that - but the thermometer on the page opened my eyes

It's in the 50's tonight - I HATE passionately heat like that and the idea of it being 99 was a real eye opener. I know people in that area and in Arizona - seeing that temperature in May is still startling to me :D

[midnight]

96. Yes I will purchase this new CD

and one for my daughter, so I guess that will be two votes for the new CD.

[GreenPoet64]

98. 40% to 60% kick. n/t

[XOKCowboy]

99. Same .. Kick

[otohara]

100. Done

w/ pleasure, those girls kick ass! They were very good on Letterman - OMG, Viacom broke the right-wing rules -

[banana republican]

103. 41/59 STILL NEEDS HELP N/T

[proud2BlibKansan]

104. LOL

I live in Lubbock, and still, I think that people in Lubbock are offended because they know its true. I'm sorry, but we DO live in the Bible belt, why else is the strip outside of town?! we act like people in lubbock don't drink and we try to hide it... trust me, whoever owns that strip is making a killing!! and the dixie chicks have every right to express that opinion!!! isnt that what our country was founded on... the bill of rights... FREEDOM OF SPEECH PEOPLE!!! I support Natalie and her opinion of the President! people in Lbk act like she is the only one against the President... there are a ton of artists singing anti-war songs!! she isnt the only one that counts when they say Bush's approval rating is at 30%!!! (which is horrible by the way) and the radio stations are simply being immature by banning their music!! come on... yall will play country songs about a "ba-dunk-a-dunk" referring to someone with a big butt.. but yet if someone doensn't like the President, their music is considered bad!! grow up!

[fight4my3sons]

108. you are so right!

My grandparents have lived in Lubbock for over 50 years. My mom and uncle went to Tech. They both moved out as soon as they could. Of course my grandparents are good Southern Baptists. Never drink, smoke, and they would never miss church, you know the deal. My mom and uncle are republican, but are not favorable towards * anymore. I haven't been to Lubbock in years. The only thing I miss is Furr's (spelling?) :hi:

[proud2BlibKansan]

109. Sorry - not my words

I copied that from the comments on that discussion board for that poll.

SOunds like your mom and uncle are smart folks :)

[DesertRat]

105. Done. Yes 41%

[leftofthedial]

106. Lubbock or Leave It

also the name of ex-Lubbockite (Lubbockonian?) Butch Hancock's former gallery in Austin

[LeahD]

107. Yes 41/No 59. n/t

[Faryn Balyncd]

110. done

thanks

[prairie populist]

111. Done, but still needs help: 40-60

[Maestro]

112. Just wanted to say that

the Dixie Chicks album is number #1. Despite what the troll here who posted over there said, the Chicks are still popular!