Obama and southern states

[fire400]

http://southernstudies.org/fac...els/barack%20obama.asp

You might recall the Union North and the Confederate South from the Civil War days.

It's different today, but how much different?

More southern states won for McCain, obviously. Bush's former secretary may not have been counting votes for the 2008 election in FL, so no ties in Flordia this time (lol)

http://newsok.com/colin-powell...sident/article/3313298

Colin Powell, as he quickly rose threw the ranks in his military career, in summary said:
'If anyone has a problem with me being black, it's their problem, not mine."

 

[nageov3t]

... ok?

 

[alien42]

you can't blame the urban areas in the south, they are all blue just like up north.

 

[Stunt]

Exactly...it's not a north/south divide.
It's an urban/rural divide with the battleground being the suburbs or middle class...

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: loki8481
... ok?

Dude, it's fire400 - from OT. This is actually the most rational and coherent thread I've seen from him.

 

[robphelan]

the last I saw on election night, Texas was 55% McCain 45% Obama - I can't find the final %s though.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

It has nothing to do with North vs South or White vs. Black it has to do with idea and beliefs.
Some people think that someone that supports partial birth abortions is an idiot that supports murder of children. Others think that having a child and killing it is ok because some one didn't want it.
Other issues include the rights of individuals, and Socialistic ideology vs rational thought.

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
It has nothing to do with North vs South or White vs. Black it has to do with idea and beliefs.
Some people think that someone that supports partial birth abortions is an idiot that supports murder of children. Others think that having a child and killing it is ok because some one didn't want it.
Other issues include the rights of individuals, and Socialistic ideology vs rational thought.

Thanks for that fair and balanced perspective.

 

[fskimospy]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
It has nothing to do with North vs South or White vs. Black it has to do with idea and beliefs.
Some people think that someone that supports partial birth abortions is an idiot that supports murder of children. Others think that having a child and killing it is ok because some one didn't want it.
Other issues include the rights of individuals, and Socialistic ideology vs rational thought.

I assume you believe yourself to be a member of the latter group, and your rational thought for the day is that the people in blue states support child murder and oppose rational thought.

You are not smart.

 

[woodie1]

Originally posted by: robphelan
the last I saw on election night, Texas was 55% McCain 45% Obama - I can't find the final %s though.

According to the RCP page the final results for TX were:

McCain 55.5%
BHO 43.8%

 

[techs]

Originally posted by: woodie1

Originally posted by: robphelan
the last I saw on election night, Texas was 55% McCain 45% Obama - I can't find the final %s though.

According to the RCP page the final results for TX were:

McCain 55.5%
BHO 43.8%

I give Texas about 10 years and then its solidly blue.

 

[Feanor727]

Originally posted by: techs


I give Texas about 10 years and then its solidly blue.

It may be 10 years before Texas starts voting blue, but it will still be by very slim margins. There's enough people out in the sticks to balance out the urban areas. The rural areas are still extremely backwards. I mean, there was (basically) a lynching in Jasper ten years ago. Not exactly a hallmark of progressive progress.

 

[Deliximus]

it's way too sad to still see these kinds of things going on in America. It's pretty pathetic actually. And yet, of coz, the Republicans will do nothing cuz they are ensured by those votes.