California, not very hateful compared to other states. (Susanville: hotel, casinos)

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by Sennoshine

Righteous. You don't happen to have any waves by those sands do ya? Gotta wax the board and hit some surf. Hang 10 bro.

haha! Waves? I wish! Gotta go to Cali for waves. And for real trees, aside from these scrubby desert junipers. They call it a national forest around here, but there are no trees taller than 5 or 6'. That's pathetic. Someone invites you to go hiking in the "forest", and you're just walking among shrubbery. Too weird.

[Sierravillian]

Originally Posted by Mr5150

But much less so than the liberal Northeast. And that blue area seems centered around the liberal counties of Nevada and El Dorado.

Nice to see that the Bible Belt of the West Coast practices what they preach.

Except that those counties went for Romney

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

idk, except there's an Indian reservation near there, in Susanville. That's Lassen Co., though.

Like Los Angeles is near Deathvalley......... look at a map.

[Charles]

Also, the data are limited to those who "tweet'. A lot of people don't tweet. There might be a demographic bias there. Younger? Tech Savy?

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by Charles

Also, the data are limited to those who "tweet'. A lot of people don't tweet. There might be a demographic bias there. Younger? Tech Savy?

Goofy?

[Fontucky]

I can't imagine myself ever engaging in anything that's referred to as "tweeting."

[bigdumbgod]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

haha! Waves? I wish! Gotta go to Cali for waves. And for real trees, aside from these scrubby desert junipers. They call it a national forest around here, but there are no trees taller than 5 or 6'. That's pathetic. Someone invites you to go hiking in the "forest", and you're just walking among shrubbery. Too weird.

Weird? Nothing weird going on...

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by Sierravillian

Except that those counties went for Romney



Like Los Angeles is near Deathvalley......... look at a map.

You're not the only one who looks at maps, shocking as that may be to you. There are other Native communities in that area, though. I guess you didn't look at the relevant map yourself.

[sjnative]

Is this thread yet another expression of our smug self-satisfied supposed moral superiority over those shown on the OP's map?

Are we morally superior?

Riddle yourselves this- is CA's fastest-growing demography a tolerant one?

Does that demography hold liberal values of tolerance and celebration of diversity?

Has this very demography shown tolerance to African Americans?

Does it teach its children to accept and respect "gringos?"

I'd say "don't fool yourselves" but such words would go in vain.

As an aside, I think it would be interesting to see how often racial slurs are used by CA's fastest-growing demography. Sadly, even if that demography used racial slurs, we would sympathize with them and defend them- yet another revelation of how deluded we are.

[bigdumbgod]

Originally Posted by sjnative

Is this thread yet another expression of our smug self-satisfied supposed moral superiority over those shown on the OP's map?

Are we morally superior?

Riddle yourselves this- is CA's fastest-growing demography a tolerant one?

Does that demography hold liberal values of tolerance and celebration of diversity?

Has this very demography shown tolerance to African Americans?

Does it teach its children to accept and respect "gringos?"

I'd say "don't fool yourselves" but such words would go in vain.

As an aside, I think it would be interesting to see how often racial slurs are used by CA's fastest-growing demography. Sadly, even if that demography used racial slurs, we would sympathize with them and defend them- yet another revelation of how deluded we are.

Just can't stop the Latino-hate train, si?

[mrsltd]

Why does it seem that hating is something only "whites" do and not everybody else, at least according to modern definitions?

Are not all groups equally capable of hate toward whomever?

If a "black" person yells a slur or assaults someone for being something or other, is it not as equally detestable as if a "white" person were to do the same? Or a Latino? Or an Asian?

And why should it be surprising that there would be hate on the Indian Reservations? I'm sure the hate moves in more than one direction between numbers of different groups.