Red-state blues

[avram]

immlass has called a bunch of us to account on the whole red state/blue state thing, and, well, she’s, um, right. Nearly three million Texans voted for Kerry, along with 3.5 million Floridians, 700,000 Kentucks, eight Alaskans, and millions of other assorted people who are all feeling even more depressed than we blue-state liberals.

And hey, let’s hear it for those million Coloradorados who sent a Democrat to the Senate!

An even better reaction came from a commenter on Making Light:

Let me tell you how we do it here in the red states.

We fight and we fight and we live in a certain amount of fear from the results, because we don't have the comfy, self-satisfied environment the rest of you have.

When we go out for gay rights, sometimes we get kicked around--it's happened to me. When we demonstrate againat Reagan, ditto--it's happened to me. When we petition for tenants' rights, the landlords take the petitions and blacklist us for signing--I've watched them ask for the lists, and get them. And when it's done, we go back for more, if not the next day, then the one after that.

That’s me told. So no more mocking the red states. I’ll reserve my mockery for individual fuckheads. In fact, plenty of fuckheads live in blue states — folksy jackass James Lileks lives in 51% blue Minnesota, Little Green Fascist Charles Johnson lives in California, and would-be rapist Adam Yoshida comes from Canada and is currently living in Massachusetts.

I reserve the right to mock Libertarians for nominating Badnarik.

Comments

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

"voting to remove that language from the constitution was associated successfully with a mandate to tax the crap out of people"
Yes. By unreconstructed racists. And people bought it. There is a certain point at which I'm unwilling to let someone go as just easily tricked. That 50% of Alabama has just crossed it.

[gentlyepigrams]

I'm sure your well-stated point would have convinced any Alabaman who was wavering to vote for Amendment 2, too.

I won't bother arguing the point. One of the things I've learned from arguing with unreconstructed bigots is that there some people simply won't open their eyes, and it's better not to waste your time on them.