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Georgia on my mind...[Updated] | 11 comments (11 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
georgia is ground zero for (none / 1)
pseudo=Xtian bigotry.  Not shocking that the R's did a better job motivating their peeps.
by HiD on Wed Dec 3rd, 2008 at 01:06:42 AM EST
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I thought Alabama was even worse!  

As a student in the late 1970's I did summer work in Wildwood, New Jersey (Howard Johnson's take out window, best hotdogs on the Boardwalk; making beds in Motels, and skinny dipping in hotel pools just ahead of the cops) and in Virginia Beach, Virginia (road construction work in *90 F - phew, never again).

I did the obligatory hitch-hiking around to see more of the USA but stopped just north of the Carolinas because I was told my long hair would be enough to get me lynched - "there tbe monsters down there, there be ..." - and as I was acting as involuntary protector for two fellow female hitch-hikers at the time, I decided that discretion was the better part of valour.

Hitch-hiking or giving lifts in Islamic/African countries never inspired the same sense of terror!


notes from no w here

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Wed Dec 3rd, 2008 at 04:16:37 AM EST
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Oh, my dear HiD, no.  There's plenty of faux-Christianity in Jawjuh, but it's is nothing compared with places like Louisiana, Alabama, or -- the most insane of all -- Oklahoma.  Georgia's just stuck with some Old South nuts who'll eventually die off, but those other three operate in an entirely different dimension of crazy.

Hell, Obama only lost Georgia by 5 points, maybe a bit less (haven't checked the scores in a few weeks at the state level).  Give it another few cycles.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Wed Dec 3rd, 2008 at 01:12:59 PM EST
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I've spent very little time in the south but having a city like Atlanta radiating out modern values has to help tremendously. Alabama, Louisiana, and Oklahoma have no such city.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Wed Dec 3rd, 2008 at 04:24:45 PM EST
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I wouldn't call the values "modern," except for the actual city core.  The suburbs are not filled with total Neanderthals, but they aren't exactly San Francisco either.

But basically, yeah, that's the long and the short of it.

Could be worse.  Imagine Louisiana without New Orleans.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Wed Dec 3rd, 2008 at 05:32:47 PM EST
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