The country still LOOKS VERY RED! (voting, united, town, democratic)
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Oh it's quite meaningful: most of the U.S. is not blue. If it were divided into two countries based on that map (from the first post in this thread)...the blue country wouldn't be too big, and would be mighty hungry. The reds control most of this country's land and resources. The blues simply consume.
hey, Iowa is solid blue now
On the other hand, most of the agriculture in the Red States is highly subsidized with money that comes from taxpayers in Blue States
Hhm, what's the pop. per square mile of those states? 2 people?
I see the most racist part of the country, though, the South is still very red.....
wonder why?....Hhm?
There's more racism in the North than in the South.
Im in Okla, I think they fixed the elections. I sat in a line for hours around mostly dems, yet
For the first time in the history of the state even the repubs took the state senate-- that is UNHEARD OF!! Something happened.. not sure what it was..
Racism? I heard alot of that dribbling out of everyones mouths.. but still..
We had record number of DEM reg, young people and record turn out to the polls. Obama had alot more support here than those numbers are showing, but they did put a hunting /gun question on the ballot so maybe just all the fearful gun owners showed up .. I didnt see them though, and Im in the largest populated town.
Of course, when one loses the first thing out of their mouths happens to be, "they stole the election".
You didn't look at the map on the first post then did you.
It's subsidized to keep it cheap for all the people in the cities. You'll be paying the full, real, price of food when we kick the feds out.
It's subsidized to keep the farmers from going BROKE and allow them to compete with food producers OVERSEAS - and actually tends to keep food prices UP by discouraging cheaper food imports from foreign counties (one needs only look at the disappearance of agriculture in Hawaii (where thousands of acres lay fallow) to see a case where the crops grown there were not sufficiently subsidized to see what happens in that event).
Subsidies give farmers additional cash for their crops, as well as a guarantee of a price floor so that they don't go out of business. In a general sense they serve as redistribution of wealth (gee, does that sound a bit familiar?) and were started by that "socialist" Roosevelt, and often come under attack from Fiscal Conservatives.
Funny how it's only "socialism" when the money is going to someone else.
There's more racism in the North than in the South.
Having lived most of my life in the northeast, I can't really dispute this claim, at least when it comes to ethnic and racial population dispersion, by town. There is very little integration.
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