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Same difference to a Yankee like me who's never been further south than NoVa. But it's not like those types don't exist elsewhere. Rural northern New England has people who accents aside seem like they stepped right out of the film set. One positive side for us is that regionalism plays our way up there. As the Republican Party has gotten more and more Southern, they've found it less appealing.
by MarekNYC on Tue May 13th, 2008 at 11:57:13 PM EST
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The problem for the Reps here is that the only issues people in the rural South agree with them on are gays and abortion, both of which are fading from the debate.  On the economic and environmental issues, the South is still Democratic, and that's how Childers won.  Davis's campaign was basically "The blacks will eat your kids if you vote Childers, and Pelosi will abort any they miss.  Just like they do in San Francisco!!!!!!!"  And it didn't work, because nobody gives a shit this year.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Wed May 14th, 2008 at 12:02:42 AM EST
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New Hampshire libertarians are pretty close politically - like WV, there is a strong tendency toward isolationism and mistrust of outsiders.

My mom and dad, visiting my sister working up in the white mountains, stopped at a gas station, where my mom was surprised to learn that there is no sales tax in NH. She asked the cashier who said "yep, up here, no tax, and no blacks." Imagine him wearing a 2nd amendment t-shirt and you've got a complete picture.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Wed May 14th, 2008 at 03:26:19 AM EST
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New Hampshire is a bizarre state, but it's fitting that the right-wing crazies would make their home in new Hampshire in order to balance out the People's Republic of Vermont.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Wed May 14th, 2008 at 07:35:50 AM EST
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