I hate to say this but.. West Coast people are better people.

[Tavarious Jackson]

This nation is extremely racist but for West Coast.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. There are good people everywhere - it is about relative concentration.

[elleng]

2. Try again. No, don't; try apologizing.

There are more than a few easterners here.

[Codeine]

3. Of course we are. ;-)

But we’re too concentrated in one place.

[Merlot]

5. West coast, if by that you mean CA, encourges everyone to vote

There are enough good people in most other states, they don't get to vote as easily. Our voting system is better equiped to be safe, and all votes counted.

It's like the chicken and the egg....which comes first, being a blue state or having good voting systems?

And CA has it's red spots.

[Tavarious Jackson]

9. Thats a good point nt

[wasupaloopa]

6. We have our racists in CA. They don't make

a lot of noise but they are here.

I used to live in the mountains east of Bakersfield. I did not talk about politics or religion with my neighbors.

We were as white as snow.

[misanthrope]

7. Plenty of Americans

in Watts or East L.A. who might beg to argue with your conjecture.

[still_one]

8. I am West Coast so I am bias, but let's also be fair, the Northeast is fine, it looks like Virginia

has moved in the right direction, and the Midwest may provide moves in the right direction

In fact, I would argue even in the places where we didn't make it we are moving closer.

The important thing now is that we retain the House, and that will leverage us for 2020


Keep in mind after trump won in 2016 the pundants were spewing that the Democrats had no chance to win in 2018


The House is very much in play

[Tavarious Jackson]

10. Agreed. nt

[Raine]

11. No we aren't

there is just a larger population here that's progressive but it wasn't always this way, don't forget my state California gave this country Raygun.

[lunatica]

21. And The Governator Ahnold Swartzenegger

Don’t forget him!

[Raine]

23. that too

and not that long ago, yuck!

[MissB]

12. Nah. Oregon, Washington and California all have racists

And there are good people everywhere not just on the west coast.

[Tavarious Jackson]

13. I know there are good people everywhere.

The racist seem to be more concentrated in the south and south east.

[MissB]

14. It may seem that way.

Oregon is reliably blue. The I-5 corridor has large cities with predominantly democratic voters. But if you travel to the eastern part of the state, it’s solidly red. It’s just that there are more of us than them in this particular state.

Small towns are everywhere in this state. There are racists in small towns and big towns, but there are just more democrats in the metro areas here.

[Tavarious Jackson]

16. Agreed. I am in Portland.

I'm very lucky,

[Blue_true]

15. They have a high concentration of Masters and PhD.

As does Massachusetts and New York. They also have a lot of modern industry, knowledge industries, as does Massachusetts and increasingly New York. If the same changes happened in certain parts of Florida, for instance, that state would trend strongly blue, sort of where Virginia appears to be headed.

[joshcryer]

17. Having lived in the south for half my life...

...I would agree.

[Demovictory9]

18. lol. we are.

[McCamy Taylor]

19. I think urban people are mostly more civilized than rural people. Mostly.

[fishwax]

20. I mean, there's a lot of nation that isn't south, southeast, or west coast

[Jamaal510]

22. We have our share

of racists out here in the Bay Area. My older sister complains all the time about getting followed around in stores and being treated funny in the science field as a Black person. Racists are everywhere, I'm afraid.