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In reply to the discussion: Please feel free to nuke all of us Southerners...Drop a bomb on us redneck ignart Sutherners. [View all]bvar22
(39,909 posts)143. Gosh, Hoyt.....
It was ONLY the "Southern States" that turned down the Medicaid Expansion???????
I didn't realize it was so localized. Thanks for this information.
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Please feel free to nuke all of us Southerners...Drop a bomb on us redneck ignart Sutherners. [View all]
bamademo
Jul 2015
OP
Yep, IMO the south often gets a bad rap. There are many good people in the south. I've worked with
RKP5637
Jul 2015
#4
Yep, that, is the root cause of many problems. Democrats that think sliding rightward
RKP5637
Jul 2015
#127
State, place & people shaming s*cks. There are good people in WI & other places, hate it when
appalachiablue
Jul 2015
#12
This country should be totally up in arms about GOP-gerrymandered districts and Koch money, but
RKP5637
Jul 2015
#23
Even apartheid S Africa had some desirable qualities. I live in south, there's a lot to bash, sorry.
Hoyt
Jul 2015
#10
You are right, there is no abundance of racism here, red states gladly expanded Medicaid under ACA,
Hoyt
Jul 2015
#20
I see it no different than Place of Origin prejudice. It's backwards. I also warn them that TX was
freshwest
Jul 2015
#121
You gotta a list of southern states that expanded Medicaid vs those that did not?
Hoyt
Jul 2015
#144
here in Georgia the GOP went out of its way to restrict the expansion of Medicare
CatWoman
Jul 2015
#44
But we're morally superior that's why we're so tolerant of bashing the South here.
ileus
Jul 2015
#13
Maybe that's the problem, even many Democrats are not far removed from old "Dixiecrats" in
Hoyt
Jul 2015
#22
Fact is, if rest of country were likethe south, McCain and Palin would be in office and
Hoyt
Jul 2015
#63
The bashing comes from the constant, most often crazy, protrayal of "southern mentality"
randr
Jul 2015
#15
I lived most of my life in the north & now in Tx. White Supremacy, Bigots, KKKristians
misterhighwasted
Jul 2015
#18
It really is, exactly as you say. "It' s not a north/south thing, it's RW hate, & someone with the
RKP5637
Jul 2015
#24
The high drama from Southerners about any form of criticism or joshing is incomprehensible to me
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2015
#38
Give a lot of Northern transplants five years in the South and they sound/act just like the locals
Fumesucker
Jul 2015
#97
I've had two different DUers tell me that Oregon is 'not really America' and that the South is
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2015
#73
Yes sarcasm - It started in Montgomery Al during the push for equality and there was a wee
lunasun
Jul 2015
#74
Not to mention the fact that you'd be killing most of the black people in the US in the process.
craigmatic
Jul 2015
#47
As a happily transplanted Texan to New England, I will say the South has come a long
CTyankee
Jul 2015
#59
No call for annihilation of the southern states seen here* did i miss something?
lunasun
Jul 2015
#71
I'd take the South over the North any day of the fucking week. The North's an overpopulated shithole
cherokeeprogressive
Jul 2015
#88
Meh. I was trying to write something as stupid as the stereotyping I see here re The South.
cherokeeprogressive
Jul 2015
#110
Thanks for stating that all italian-americans are not like a fictional tv character....
Drahthaardogs
Jul 2015
#96
That's such a silly thing to say. No one is threatening Alabama or any other Southern State.
YOHABLO
Jul 2015
#104
Why invest anything at all into the empty rhetoric of the regional bigot?
LanternWaste
Jul 2015
#132
No kidding.. so stupid to focus on geography when some of the most racist assholes to
randys1
Jul 2015
#152