Is it silly to dismiss an entire geographic area, e.g., a state?

[Dreamer Tatum]

Poll question: Is it silly to dismiss an entire geographic area, e.g., a state?

Based on the neverending heaps of scorn piled on Texas and the South, I'd like some opinions...

[Incitatus]

1. The bottom 2 are the same. nt

[damntexdem]

12. Hear, hear!

[vi5]

2. Yes, it's silly....

Case in point is the story recently about the high school in Florida that elected a gay prom king and a transgender prom queen. And in particular how loving and supportive the transgenders kids family is and was.

I'm a hardcore northeastern, NJ born and raised hardcore liberal and I"m not sure most of the places around me here would be so tolerant.

And also, I don't want my state being judged by the clowns on Jersey Shore.

[tabbycat31]

6. I live in the shore area

And I don't want to be judged by that awful TV show or even by my representation in Trenton or Freehold.

I especially don't want to be judged by the fat fuck circling the state in a chopper.

Everyone is an individual. Last year, I worked for a campaign in a fairly red state (that elected Rand Paul last year) and I can tell you my volunteers were not the rednecks that the stereotype of that state is. Most of the voters I talked to were not either.

[OHdem10]

3. My Goodness, why such questions???

[provis99]

19. obviously a Texan with a chip on his shoulder.

[LondonReign2]

4. More slanted that a Fox poll

n/t

[Wait Wut]

5. No "Other"??

You forced me to vote yes, but after living in Arizona for almost 10 years I would like to suggest to everyone here to just dismiss this entire state. I will sacrifice myself in order to make this a better country by being ignored by the more intelligent citizens of other more intelligent states.

This has been a public service announcement sponsored by The Lonely Democrat of Central Arizona and the letter "D".

[LondonReign2]

9. Of course he forced you to yes

That was the sole intention of this poll

[Canuckistanian]

7. I tend to dismiss places by altitude

Fuck Glade Park-Gateway in Colorado. You too, Cloudcroft, New Mexico.

[Dreamer Tatum]

8. Now THAT bends!

Hahahahahahaha well-played.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. Define ''dismiss''.

Is just deciding I don't want to visit place X ''dismiss''?

[Peacetrain]

11. Yes it is a totally stupid way to act towards others.. people who define

others or assign to them some value system because of the area they live in..are whackadoodles..

[aquart]

13. YES. But occasionally vengefully satisfying.

[On the Road]

14. Almost One Third Voted No?

DU, I am disappoint.

[Arctic Dave]

15. No, Cullyafornya still sucks.

Derp da derp da derp.

[Ozymanithrax]

16. Each region and state have a prevalent culture common to the majority...

in that state.

That is why the Red State/Blue State or Liberal/Conservative paradigm works.

In Texas and the South, the prevailing political culture is conservative. I don't dismiss them, but except in unusual circumstances I don't expect much from them.

And you poll was way to biased to make it worth voting in.

[Spike89]

17. Obviously depends on context

I'll assume this is another Texas and/or Southern US issue and use TX as an example. TX votes republican in most statewide and national elections--isn't in my opinion "silly". In a discussion of which states have the richest recent history of voting democratic/progressive, I think it might be silly not to dismiss TX.

Of course, in many discussions, it would be very silly to ignore the millions of progressive people in TX.

However, the reality is that TX needs some work to truly become a swing state, much less a bastion of progressive ideals.

[readmoreoften]

18. Absolutely. It also leads to atrocities. If you can hate a region, you can clusterbomb them.

Texas votes 45% Democrat and has hundreds of active revolutionary socialists organizing protests and rallies throughout the state (far more than contemporary Oklahoma, Kansas, etc.) I guess if you're going to "forget" the state of Texas, you might as well forget about the 22% of children that are food insecure. You know what? Fuck it: just start advocating for States RIghts and don't stand in solidarity with the working class activists from red states. Let alone members of your own party.

[JoePhilly]

20. I've lived in NC for the last 20 years ....

And at time, I am AMAZED at the regression towards pre-civil war politics that I see here.

I grew up in PA ... which is Philly to the east, Pitt to the west, and Alabama in the middle.

The South suffers a bad rep because the southern states tend to vote with the craziest of the GOP.

Sure, parts of the South fight this. But the net effect is negative.

And there is a reason that the GOP named their own political strategy the "Southern Strategy".