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It's no longer red vs. blue or liberal vs. conservative or black vs. white, it's intelligent and educated vs. ignorant and superstitious. look at the states that voted for McCain. Do any of them have more than one university? Would you want your children growing up in any of them? The all too true statement that Obama said in Pennsylvania . . . ("clinging to their guns and religion") could be applied to half the country- but not the half that produces Rhodes scholars." [emphasis added]
This is just a bit reductionist, don't you think? But hey, what the hell do I know? I'm just a dumb atheist liberal from the Deep South.
Texas has its Austin. Mississippi has its Jackson. Louisiana has its New Orleans (yes, we're still here). Kentucky has its Lexington. Tennessee has its Memphis. I could go on.
If you want to foam at the mouth over something, try directing your rage at the Electoral College. Or perhaps at the blatant gerrymandering of district maps that serves no other purpose and yields no other effect but to artificially skew Congressional representation to the right. Democracy is all about the process.
The culture war is their game. Why are you playing it?
You'll excuse me if I don't stick around for an answer just now. I need to get back to the kitchen before my arugula wilts.
