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  • Dear Red States

    "Letter" making the rounds on the Internets.

    Dear Red States,

    We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and
    we're taking the other Blue States with us.

    In case you aren't aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon,Washington,
    Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We
    believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially
    to the people of the new country of New California.

    To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states.
    We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get Elliot
    Spitzer. You get Ken Lay.

    We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood.

    We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.

    We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.

    We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You
    get Alabama.

    We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states
    pay their fair share.

    Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the
    Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a
    bunch of single moms.

    Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and
    anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at
    once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have
    kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no
    purpose, and they don't care if you don't show pictures of their
    children's caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq, and
    hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to spend our
    resources in Bush's Quagmire.

    With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent
    of the country's fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple
    and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent of
    America's quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners)
    90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most
    of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and
    condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools, plus Harvard, Yale,
    Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.

    With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88
    percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health care
    costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the
    tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern
    Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh,
    Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.
    We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.

    Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was
    actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred
    unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent say
    that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was involved
    in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy bastards believe you are people
    with higher morals then we lefties.

    By the way, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt
    weed they grow in Mexico.

    Peace out,
    Blue State
    Ed.

  • #2
    Re: Dear Red States

    Or if you'd like to be a little more inflamatory

    http://www.fuckthesouth.com/

    I'm not sure I'd really class California as a liberal state. It didn't seem particularly liberal when I lived there. In fact it seemed somewhat conservative with pockets of whacko conservatives, and pockets of whacko liberals who like to get annoyed with each other.

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    • #3
      Re: Dear Red States

      Originally posted by FRED View Post
      "Letter" making the rounds on the Internets.

      Dear Red States,

      We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and
      we're taking the other Blue States with us.

      In case you aren't aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon,Washington,
      Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We
      believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially
      to the people of the new country of New California.

      To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states.
      We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get Elliot
      Spitzer. You get Ken Lay.

      We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood.

      We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.

      We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.

      We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You
      get Alabama.

      We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states
      pay their fair share.

      Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the
      Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a
      bunch of single moms.

      Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and
      anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at
      once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have
      kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no
      purpose, and they don't care if you don't show pictures of their
      children's caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq, and
      hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to spend our
      resources in Bush's Quagmire.

      With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent
      of the country's fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple
      and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent of
      America's quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners)
      90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most
      of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and
      condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools, plus Harvard, Yale,
      Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.

      With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88
      percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health care
      costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the
      tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern
      Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh,
      Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.
      We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.

      Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was
      actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred
      unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent say
      that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was involved
      in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy bastards believe you are people
      with higher morals then we lefties.

      By the way, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt
      weed they grow in Mexico.

      Peace out,
      Blue State

      Is this the reason Blue state property values are so much higher? (Location, Location, Location)

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      • #4
        Re: Dear Red States

        Originally posted by lurker View Post
        Or if you'd like to be a little more inflamatory

        http://www.fuckthesouth.com/

        I'm not sure I'd really class California as a liberal state. It didn't seem particularly liberal when I lived there. In fact it seemed somewhat conservative with pockets of whacko conservatives, and pockets of whacko liberals who like to get annoyed with each other.
        California is really two states a blue state from nappa south and a red state north of that point. (this is a geographic, not popoulation split).

        Oregon and Washington are the same except it is a West (blue) East (red) split.

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        • #5
          Re: Dear Red States

          whatever. it's always ever been about money anyway.

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          • #6
            Re: Dear Red States

            I remember that back in the 70's until sometime in the 80's, the jackasses were red, and the pachyderms blue.

            Checked the wiki, so my memory isn't (yet) faulty (yay) . . .

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            • #7
              Re: Dear Red States

              Fresh water, beaches, blah blah

              Where do all the soldiers come from? That's what matters...

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              • #8
                Re: Dear Red States

                Originally posted by FRED View Post
                "Letter" making the rounds on the Internets.

                Dear Red States,

                We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and
                we're taking the other Blue States with us.

                In case you aren't aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon,Washington,
                Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We
                believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially
                to the people of the new country of New California.

                To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states.
                We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get Elliot
                Spitzer. You get Ken Lay.

                We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood.

                We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.

                We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.

                We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You
                get Alabama.

                We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states
                pay their fair share.

                Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the
                Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a
                bunch of single moms.

                Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and
                anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at
                once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have
                kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no
                purpose, and they don't care if you don't show pictures of their
                children's caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq, and
                hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to spend our
                resources in Bush's Quagmire.

                With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent
                of the country's fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple
                and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent of
                America's quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners)
                90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most
                of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and
                condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools, plus Harvard, Yale,
                Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.

                With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88
                percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health care
                costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the
                tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern
                Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh,
                Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.
                We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.

                Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was
                actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred
                unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent say
                that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was involved
                in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy bastards believe you are people
                with higher morals then we lefties.

                By the way, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt
                weed they grow in Mexico.

                Peace out,
                Blue State
                When will people like the arrogant prick who wrote this realize that it's not red states vs blue states, it's urban vs rural. Cities & college towns tend to go for democrats and suburban & rural areas for republicans. My take on it is that people in cities are exposed to a wider variety of cultures and lifestyles and tend to be more accepting of those who aren't just like themselves. The map below of election results by county is often used by republicans to 'prove' that the country is mostly on their side. That's ridiculous, but I do think the map is instructive in destroying the red state / blue state dogma.

                Jimmy from Atlanta (blue), GA (red, but maybe not in '08!)

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                • #9
                  Re: Dear Red States

                  The interesting thing about this is that the supposed "blue states" (in reality urban areas, college towns, areas of large government concentration, etc.) are the ones whose wealth has been contingent upon the FIRE economy, vastly overinflated education costs, tax receipts/debt sales, etc. that may be coming to an end.

                  Sure, those in fields like selling CDOs, feminist studies, selling $5 lattes, etc. have been doing well. However, those unproductive, lazy losers doing the unimportant work of farming, mining, etc. might have the last laugh.

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