Red state values

[AdamSmith]

Seen it before, but doesn't hurt repeating...

[RA1]

Because the blue states lie about their sins.

Best regards,

RA1

[AdamSmith]

If the blue states can fib that competently, that in itself deserves some credit.

Course ... most of the above are matters of public record.

[RA1]

First, the Republicans can call themselves the moral majority all they want but they will not get an amen from me. Secondly, I do believe that the MSM does not report things they deem not in their own best interests or, for sure, move them to page 29.

To recall some cases of racism extant in the blue states which you may or may not recall; do you remember Roxbury, MA almost going to war to prevent desegregation back in the '60's. As a teenager, did you travel to such as northern IL and spend a summer in a small town there where the "locals" said there will never be a black (only they didn't say black) person in our town? I did.

Did you, as a young adult, ever go out west and have locals ask you why you Southern boys treated the blacks so badly and when you asked about how they treated Mexicans, they replied, oh you mean those dirty spics? I did.

I resented all that and still do. Southerners cannot mistreat folks but neither can any others BUT having a too heavy a hand from pols and the feds is not my ideal solution.

Best regards,

RA1

[AdamSmith]

No disagreement on that. Racism in the placard above is labeled "self-reported," the one category explicitly not a matter of tallying public records.

When I first moved to Boston in the early 1980s I was amazed by the complexities of racist and classist resentments and hatreds -- Italian-descended against Irish and vice versa, lace curtain Irish against the "other class" of Irish, blacks fine so long as they stayed put in Roxbury, on and on and on. It made the racism of the South look positively simple-minded.

[RA1]

Well, it was simple minded.

Best regards,

RA1