Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Are you liberal in your thinking? A democrat? Diverse? multi-cultural? have money? Are a good driver? (lot's of traffic) Can handle stress well? If yes to any of these you will love it here. Personally, I can't wait to get out--it's a prison to me
all those things. apart from money isn't important to me. also i guess democrat by US standards, but i won't be voting in the states. wife will though and she's a straight democrat ticket
all those things. apart from money isn't important to me. also i guess democrat by US standards, but i won't be voting in the states. wife will though and she's a straight democrat ticket
ian6479 - glad to have you. Welcome!
Last edited by tigerlily; 05-05-2007 at 06:44 PM..
Reason: edited for addition
all those things. apart from money isn't important to me. also i guess democrat by US standards, but i won't be voting in the states. wife will though and she's a straight democrat ticket
I think he meant that by money its an expensive place to live.
Va... where I live is very conservative, althought I am more of a moderate than anything else, if we have to go by labels here, yes I say I am more of a moderate... But, I do feel more comfortable in a conservative state, because I have a good moral code, am very ethical and am tolerate of most upstanding decent people.
Maryland is Democrat - blue. Republican presidential candidates don't even bother to campaign here. Since a lot of feds live here they vote for who will give them the biggest annual pay increases when it comes time to vote for the Senate, the House and the President. It also has a large African American population, a demographic that votes Democrat even when an African American is a Republican candidate for the Senate. Ironically, I live in a town that is Republican according to voter registration but I'm pretty tired of my votes meaning nothing so...
I'm moving to a red state, Tennessee, that didn't even carry homeboy Al Gore and probably still won't should he decide to run again. Tennessee is divided into 3 sections geographically (East, Central and West). East Tennessee is overwhelmingly Republican according to registered voters stats, including it's 2 largest cities - Chattanooga and Knoxville. See examples below:
I was wondering what your state is politically like?
.
New Jersey here. High taxes, failing schools, an incredible number of public employees vs. private sector employees (like France). Political corruption, at all levels, that would embarrass a Louisiana politician, and a hostility towards legal firearms owners/hunters.
A belief that all suburbanites are rich and should shovel more and more money, unaccountably, in the "blue" strongholds that run this state.
Alabama -- about as far to the right as it gets... poor people pay higher taxes than they would in Massachusetts while the super wealthy get a half-rate discount, basically every social service is underfunded, none of the urban areas have any real public transportation, and if you propose changing any of these three things you'll get the "crazy socialist" label from a sizable fraction of the state's population. Ultraconservative groups like the Christian Coalition manage to keep even the most benign, insignificant changes defeated by portraying everything as a backhanded attempt to raise (the nation's lowest) taxes... Most of the Democrats in Alabama make George W. Bush look liberal...
Also there's the world's longest constitution, drafted 100 years ago by rich white supremacists to maintain the status quo at all costs, rampant corruption, and cities basically aren't allowed to govern themselves... all the power rests with the legislature, who get to decide whether Perfunkel County or whatever can trim weeds or not.
Last edited by fishmonger; 05-07-2007 at 05:16 AM..
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
