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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 08:35 PM Original message |
Top 10 States in terms of poverty rates: |
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kath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 08:38 PM Response to Original message |
1. Well , the name "Dumbfuckistan" from that old electoral map sure says a lot about the situation! |
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HowHasItComeToThis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 11:26 PM Response to Reply #1 |
28. THEIR RACISM COSTS THEM DEARLY |
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NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 08:38 PM Response to Original message |
2. idiots easily manipulated by wedge issues |
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Lagomorph (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 08:39 PM Response to Original message |
3. They know how much the Democrats love them? |
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appamado amata padam (301 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 08:44 PM Response to Original message |
4. : |
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Sanity Claws (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 08:45 PM Response to Original message |
5. I wonder how many people in those states are disenfranchised |
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Harry Monroe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 09:02 PM Response to Original message |
6. WooHoo!! We're #1!! |
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LuvNewcastle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 09:21 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Yep, we're always number one |
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get the red out (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 09:03 PM Response to Original message |
7. Religious indoctrination |
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moondust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 09:07 PM Response to Original message |
8. Guns 'n God Goobers. |
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NOLALady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 09:08 PM Response to Original message |
9. That's positive. |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 11:31 PM Response to Reply #9 |
31. "Thank God for Mississippi." Alabama state motto. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 09:23 PM Response to Original message |
11. Two words: Civil Rights |
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last_texas_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 10:48 PM Response to Reply #11 |
21. Yes |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 11:39 PM Response to Reply #21 |
33. Yeah, but that's not a commonality to all those states. So what is? |
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Iris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 11:03 PM Response to Reply #11 |
24. Yep. Plus a tendency to accept suffering as a part of life and to wonder that others refuse to do |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 09:29 PM Response to Original message |
12. Democrats fail at talking values. |
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fujiyama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 12:37 AM Response to Reply #12 |
39. What "values" are those? |
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mnhtnbb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 09:53 PM Response to Original message |
13. Lack of education |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 09:59 PM Response to Original message |
14. Republican Economic Conservatism creates a society in which |
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ezgoingrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 10:06 PM Response to Original message |
15. The two things all of those states have in common are |
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JBoris (675 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 10:16 PM Response to Original message |
16. Wouldn't that mean that those states' residents receive more Fed tax dollars? |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 10:25 PM Response to Original message |
17. Low IQ. |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 10:42 PM Response to Original message |
18. For Arkansas, at least, it's a little more complicated than that |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 10:47 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Wasn't it Arkansas where awhile back (< 1 year) there was a storm or something... |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 11:08 PM Response to Reply #20 |
25. Ah, Madison County |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 11:00 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. Yeah, on the Mississippi side of the border, I can confirm your observations about the Delta. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
19. There are things they hate more than they care about their interests. |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 10:54 PM Response to Original message |
22. They have the problem of being ignorant. Some are willfully ignorant. Those cannot be helped. |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 11:13 PM Response to Original message |
26. 'We keep them ignorant and frightened' should be the GOP motto. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 11:20 PM Response to Original message |
27. they weren't any richer when they used to vote democrat in the "solid south". |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 11:28 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. Those dixiecrats switched to the Republican party in the 1960s.... |
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K8-EEE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 11:30 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. Conned-servative policies = shithole |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 01:59 AM Response to Reply #27 |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 02:05 AM Response to Reply #36 |
37. bye-ee |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 11:36 PM Response to Original message |
32. I'd bet many of the poor don't vote. If they follow the issues and turn out at the polls, |
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UTUSN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 11:44 PM Response to Original message |
34. & Governor Goodhair (TX) brags about rich-state TX's rugged individualism being recession-proof |
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Zoeisright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-24-09 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
35. What a surprise!! |
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never cry wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 12:31 AM Response to Original message |
38. Our educational system contributes greatly. |
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