Do you live in Freeperville?

[Delano]

How would you characterize YOUR town?

[strategery blunder]

1. Definitely Bible-thumpin' Freeperville

aka Kirksville, Missouri

CONFESSION: I have a Bible myself, and I thump from time to time.:evilgrin:

[neoteric lefty]

2. mederate town

smack down in the middle of the Bible Belt of Florida.

[Delano]

5. College Town.

That seems to make all the difference for Gainesville. All the cities nearby, however....:scared:

[neoteric lefty]

8. spot on

head 10 minutes in any direction and you are now in "Red" country (along with the cows)

[ClintonTyree]

14. I just left there...............

Sebring, FL. I just moved to Clearwater 10 days ago, I couldn't take it any more. The jury's out yet on Clearwater, but I think it can't be any worse than Sebring. Growing up in a College town in western NY did NOT prepare me for what was in store in Sebring. What a culture schock THAT was!

[neoteric lefty]

22. I've heard clearwater

is pretty moderate, but I could be wrong. I hope I am not for your sake.

[johnnie]

33. Been to Clearwater..

...one month for a week. It is a great place to hang out, but watch for the Scientologists. Unless you are one, then don't watch yourself.

[7th_Sephiroth]

3. not sure actually

i dont bother to interact with the people of this town, i will not be an *shudder* American much longer

[Delano]

4. It is REALLY scary how many folks are saying "Bible-thumpin' Freeperville"

Because no matter what the FACTS are, religious fanatics are almost impossible to reason with...

[7th_Sephiroth]

6. i know how to deal with them

for people who love thier god, thier scared to death to meet him, one gets in my face i pull a gun on them, they back down, shitting themselves, i might add, verry quickly

[The Traveler]

9. I can dig it but ...

as much as your approach resonates with my inner most being, it is not an effective campaign approach. Somehow, we have to convince these people.

That will be difficult without first deprogramming them.:evilgrin:

[7th_Sephiroth]

12. it is a deprogramming program

enough people do it to them they will associate what they do with the threat of pain, and thus learn not to do it

[The Traveler]

13. But of course! Quite Pavlovian of you, actually ...

I retract my comments. Please, carry on.

[7th_Sephiroth]

15. some people call me stupid

crazy or dangerous, but i know what i'm doing

[The Traveler]

18. Stupid no

Crazy? Dangerous? Perhaps ... but then again these are crazy and dangerous times.

All kidding aside, I think we need to keep our cool and all that ... but neocons need to know there are a lot of us common people out there willing to fight if need be to resist tyranny.

Bush sez he wants to be a dictator. (Yep. He said a couple times it would be a lot easier if he were.) But ... I say NO!

[7th_Sephiroth]

19. can i get links to bush saying that?

And if he said it on tape, the Kerry campaign should slam bush big time for sayin g it, make it come back to haunt him, implant the idea that bush=Dictatorship (hitler, stalin ect)

[The Traveler]

21. Stand by

I had heard them before ... someone posted them here tonight again.

Let me do some fast browsing ....

[The Traveler]

23. OK ... trying to insert a link here ....

Try this

robg

[Justitia]

11. yup, it IS scary

I live in the Dallas area, VERY bible-thumping, closeminded, hypocritical, nutcase nirvana.

Moving to Houston soon, and while still in the Repub HQ state, it is much more diverse than current locale.

I really miss the old Texas of my upbringing - before we got hijacked by the ReichWing.

[Lisa0825]

35. Welcome to Houston!

I lived in Dallas before too, and I do like the Houston area much better. When I go back to visit Dallas, it just seems so weird to me now. I heard it called "the land of the $50K a year millionaire," meaning everyone wanted to *appear* to be a millionaire, and that seems to fit! It's so much more yuppie-ish than Houston!LOL!

However, I REALLY like Deep Ellum, and wish we had something comparable down here.

Do you know of the band Jibe? They are friends of mine in Dallas. (www.jibeonline.com)

I really miss the old Texas too... the memory of a Democratic Texas is getting so distant now though. It's been so long.

[Justitia]

39. Thank you!

I'm looking forward to a refreshing change. I grew up in San Antonio, spent lots of time in Austin - both of which are hugely different than Dallas, as you know.

However, I like the lay of the land here (call me crazy) and the wonderfully DRY climate so I will miss that. Good roads here too. The biggest Houston plus is getting back to an area where I don't walk around under a black cloud because I hate my neighbors.

I haven't heard of Jibe, but they sound awfully cool!

I am determined to preserve an "Old Texas" attitude of tolerance, openness and friendliness. I plan to spread it around the State, even if it kills me :toast:

As you can see from my signature line, we have some great role models in the "Old Texas" tradition, so I still have some hope.

[elfwitch]

40. With ya honey!

I live in Dallas too.
I grew up in San Antonio.
They might as well be in two different states.

[guitar man]

7. Tulsa,OK

Is the Bible thumpin' capital of the world

[RoyGBiv]

17. I need to take you on a tour of Ada some day...

Fewer than 15,000 people in the entire town.

51 churches...one Catholic, one Presbyterian, one Episcopalian, two Methodist. The rest are some variation of hard-core, Bible banging, brimstone throwin' Baptists, Pentecostals, etc...

I lived there for 30 years. IT WAS HELL.

[The Traveler]

10. Atlanta: Pockets of reasonable folk

surrounded by Bible thumping freepers who secretly fanatasize about the New Inquisition.

[RebelOne]

26. Yep, same here.

I live north of Atlanta. Lots of Bible-thumping freepers in my neighborhood.

[huellewig]

16. Slightly Liberal..

http://www.fundrace.org/neighbors.php?type=loc&addr=&zip=97404&search=Search+by+Location


So that is the one guy in the church parking lot on Sunday morning.

[jus_the_facts]

20. mines a combo of the top three.....

....and blue collar dems all thrown in together here.

[Nomad559]

24. Fresno Ca.

Home of Free RePUGlic.com:puke:

[nonconformist]

25. I picked Bible Thumping Freeperville, but....

I could probably have also picked Blue Collar but clueless Freeperville.

I get pretty frustrated here in SE Kentucky, which is such an economically depressed area it boggles the mind why anyone would vote for a Republican. But after I thought about it, I think the major factor around here is the religious zealots. They just also happen to be poor blue collars on top of the fundamentalism and stuff. ;)

[Seldona]

27. Other than the University,

it is a pretty blue collar liberal town.

Which is pretty surprising considering the amount of rural farmer types in the area.

Nothing against farmers or anything.

They just usualy vote Repuke, at least in my experiance.

[smada]

28. Half and half

Pretty much split evenly between Bible thumpers and limousine liberals.

[Piperay]

29. 'Greedhead rich Freeperville'

in a burb of Los Angeles County along the coast, lots of hoity toity repigs here. :puke:

[No Mandate Here.]

30. Strange Place...

...which is a combination of the top three, with the wealthy part being a big second home community that provides my family with most of our income. (as a contractor)

and then there are the very few of us.

[Whitacre D_WI]

31. Waukesha County, WI.

Greedhead rich Freeperville.

[TN al]

32. Greedheads...

...here in Mt.Juliet, TN but it is a close race between them and the bible thumpers. Either way there are too many freepers.

[GreenPartyVoter]

34. I live in a trailer park in an otherwise affluent town

I'm sure there are plenty of folks who consider it an eyesore and wish we low-income people would just go somewhere else so they don't have to look at us. But, since I rarely leave the trailer park, I haven't met those folks yet. :P

[Shopaholic]

36. South Carolina--

Need I say more? :grr:

[SmileyBoy]

37. I live in a half-and-half town.

Both halves are pretty moderate. The conservatives aren't bible-thumping fundies, but pretty sollid libertarian-types, and the liberals are mostly DLC'ers or DNC'ers.

I'm pretty left as far as this town goes.

[southpaw]

38. Somewhere between Bible Thumpin

And Blue Collar but Clueless.

Hell, at least the Greedheads vote for their own best interests. Both the Bible Thumpers and the under-educated workers screw themselves every time they pull the lever with the elephant beside it.

[NoPasaran]

41. Peoples Republic of Travis County

The liberal oasis in the freepish desert that is Texas.

[LDS Jock]

49. A welcome oasis

at that. I couldn't handle living in any other place in Texas.

[dawn]

42. Greedhead, rich freeperville.

[furrylitldevil]

43. Denver, Colorado

Don't ask me why, logic would tell you that with so much nature, so many universities, and so much diversity would produce a liberal town, but no. Maybe it has something to do with an almost complete lack of the arts within the scope of the main stream, there's no music, theater, or performing arts scene to speek of outside the true diehards.

[Love Bug]

44. Grassroots, left-wing activist town

Minneapolis! Solidly Dem, high voter turnout (typically over 60%). On the other hand, the suburbs tend to be freeperville nowadays, full of people who are tired of paying taxes for stuff they don't use, like mass transit. They vote for asshats like Pawlenty and Coleman. x(

[amandae]

45. Bible-thumping freeperville in KC

you should see the size of the churches around here ... I've never seen them so HUGE before! Maybe KC isn't too bad of a freeperville (although I surely think it is) but hubby and I have only lived up north (both of us grew up in the Northeast) and compared to that, this most definately is. Especially where we live on the Kansas side of the metro area.

:scared:

[Mr. McD]

46. White-collar democrat town.

Somewhere in between blue-collar and limousine liberal.

[gpandas]

47. i live in two red states...

ohio in winter, and florida-southwest fla is fire engine red-in the winter

[geniph]

48. The small town I live in is pretty conservative

clueless blue-collar for the most part, but all I have to do is drive a few miles north for relief, into Seattle. Thank goodness for Seattle!

There's a lot of blue-collar Dems in the small town I'm in, too, but we tend to keep kind of quiet because the pugs are so ... pugnacious.