Anyone drowning in a red state.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

I am. Not my choice. In TX (not the cool part).

Just spent an evening with nice and educated people.

Maybe half (generous) had even heard of the Orlando killings.

[Doctor Jack]

1. I'm drowning in the humidity in San Antonio

Thankfully, I live in a liberal enclave in Texas so I am able to survive. I just try not to venture too far out of the city limits though. Starts to feel more and more like Deliverance when i do.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. Oh man, I keep hoping that if we just could move to the cooler part

of TX then everything would be better - you just vanished my dream.

[demosincebirth]

11. Oh man, very, very clever!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

22. Hey DJ - are you at Trump protest??? just saw on news. nt

[Doctor Jack]

25. Na, no time

Busy, busy day today.

[Hoyt]

26. Heck, I live close to where that movie was shot -- and they used a lot of local yahoos.

[calguy]

2. Greetings from Arkansas

Same shit here. I moved here 10 years ago after living California for 35 years. The people here for the most part are very fine folks. But politically, as a voting group, they're dumb as a box of nails and constantly vote to screw themselves over and over again. Trying to explain it to them is like talking to a wall.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. Hey. You actually tried to explain?...kudos to you ! I never get past

even bringing a subject up !!

[sinkingfeeling]

12. Ditto, except I've been here 24 years. Ready to leave.

[Warpy]

5. I'm so sorry. I knew when I left the south like I was shot out of a cannon

that I'd never choose to live in a right wing area ever again.

Now I'm in NM and while this state has its share of religious crackpots, right wingers and other dimwits, it's a lot more tolerable a political climate than Texas would be.

We're close, so you can come for a visit and decompress once in a while.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

6. Love you Warpy !! Got to figure out what I can do to

help change my environment.

All I can think of at the moment is - turn TX blue.

[Warpy]

7. Damn, good luck to you there

especially good luck doing something about those Wahab Baptist preachers who are causing a lot of the problems there.

[Logical]

8. Brownbackastan here. A hellhole of GOP idiots! Nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. We should get extra Democratic credit, don't you thinK? Like, people

should adore us.

[Logical]

10. I agree! Love your name also! Nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

38. Ya, well, wish I had picked something more dignified and

intelligent sounding like Logical Bet you can say all
kinds of bullshit and people think it's brilliant. LOL

[Logical]

42. Well, I get a lot of "your posts do not match your name". Set myself up for that. :-)

[annabanana]

29. I adore all you red state liberals..

And I hereby take it upon myself, as an Ann Arbor born, Massachusetts raised New Yorker to bestow buckets of extra credit for being where you are and continuing to fight the good fight against daunting odds

[Laura PourMeADrink]

37. You rock. At least it sounds like you moved up the food chain and not

down from CT, PA, and then TX.

[Maru Kitteh]

13. Very Rural Montana.

I FEEL YOUR PAIN.

But, on the other hand

[mcar]

14. Boiling in FL

In a tea party red county. Still, we had our first Orange Walk (for gun control) earlier this year and only one driver flipped us the bird!

A good 40 people attended. I see that as progress.

[deaniac21]

33. At least you aren't in a southern state.

[BreakfastClub]

15. I've always lived in a red state. I'm so used to it that I

wouldn't know how to act if I actually lived around other progressives. People in my area tend to think everyone is right wing, just like them, so when they start talking to me as if I naturally agree with them, I just nod and smile. This is an especially good skill to learn when it's your dentist or someone working on your house, etc., who is spouting right wing nonsense. My dentist is great and does excellent work, so I ignore the fact that Fox news is blaring in his waiting room and that he makes "funny" little right wing quips while doing my teeth. For some reason, you can't find a liberal dentist around here. They are overwhelmingly right wing and seem to all have on Fox news. Yep, that's the kind of mindset that I live around.

[Hortensis]

20. "you can't find a liberal dentist around here.

Lol. What a thing to know, but here neither, and Fox News is everywhere that team sports aren't blaring.

Last year I dropped a primary physician who supplied nothing but religious tracts in his waiting room (that reason was just the cherry on top), and two days ago we visited a giant gastroenterology group for my husband and found the same, plus bibles on most of the tables. Very rude, but they'd never agree.

[RebelOne]

16. Yes, in the totally red state of Georgia.

My county is so red that it glows.

[Different Drummer]

18. What county? I'm in Walton.

My county is so red that it glows.

[Different Drummer]

17. I'm in Georgia. I definitely feel your pain! n/t

[Hortensis]

19. Greetings from Georgia also.

Our friends and acquaintances here are of course,...multifaceted, some of them with some facets that are quite wonderful. It is here, though, that we finally understood that the real reason you don't talk politics and religion in gatherings is not because people can't be polite but rather to avoid replacing liking with an excess of politeness in future.

[Amishman]

21. PA might be a blue/purple state but am in a very red part of it

nice people but incomprehensibly self destructive political beliefs

[Laura PourMeADrink]

36. Just came through there...Lititz, Adamstown, York, Gettysburg

Went to college in Cresson.

Where you at?

[Amishman]

44. You were close

I'm near New Holland

[ShrimpPoboy]

23. In a rural and red parish

In one of the reddest states in the country.

You just have to take the good with the bad, live and let live, and keep your opinions close to the chest.

[Adrahil]

24. I live a blue spot is a red state (Indiana)

It's kind of tough at times....

[deathrind]

27. For now...

But hopefully not for much longer.

[a la izquierda]

28. WV...

Enough said. Never a more proud group to vote against their own interests.
I'm thankfully moving to Germany for several months next year. I cannot wait. I'm in Mexico at the moment, but dread my return to Appalachia next week...

[1StrongBlackMan]

30. Arizona, here ...

But, thanks to Don D. Con ... we're turning this patch of desert, BLUE, come November.

[Uben]

31. Where is that cool spot in Texas?

I've yet to find it in my 61 years here! Right now, about 2:00 PM, it's 92 outside and feels like 103 with the humidity. HOT!

We did however have very nice spring weather. Up until about a week ago, we had only a couple of days over 90 degrees, but the heat has hit, and when it hits, its here till October! UGGGH!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

34. :) Cool meaning cool

[kentauros]

39. Try Natural Bridge Caverns, or the Comal River,

both in the same area

[Uben]

46. Been there, and it is cool!

They just wouldn't let me move in. Da noive!

[Runningdawg]

32. I am a Pantheist liberal treading water

in the buckle of the bible belt otherwise known as Oklahoma, looking for a way out.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

35. oh wow...never met anyone from Oklahoma - but I figure it's

worst than TX - at least TX has Austin and a beach. Sorry. !!!!!!!!!!

[cry baby]

40. East Texas, here.

Very red community.

[TexasBushwhacker]

41. I'm in Houston

About 150 protesters showed up in front of a home in River Oaks that was having a Truump fundraiser this afternoon.

http://www.houstonpress.com/news/donald-trump-met-with-protesters-at-river-oaks-fundraiser-8493250

He had a rally in The Woodlands at a Marriott and expected about 5K.

[mnhtnbb]

43. Yes. Up until 2012 when the Republicans took over in NC

I had loved living in the blue oasis of Chapel Hill. Heck, NC had become so purple it voted for Obama
in 2008. It all came crashing down when Dems didn't come out to vote in 2010 and
the Republicans were able to gerrymander the voting districts after they took control of the Legislature.

Now, a mere 4 years later NC has become the target of late night comics. The NY Times regularly
runs articles on how backwards and bigoted the state has become. What was once a proudly progressive
southern state has been taken over by a bunch of mean-spirited, bigoted yahoos whose goal is
to make NC more like Mississippi! Shit, if I had wanted to live in Mississippi, I would have moved there!

So, I have been seriously lobbying my husband to go take a look at moving to Kauai. I want to be as
far away from the gun nuts and bigots as possible. I do not like the way things are headed...and I'm
more worried than I was when Bushie boy had the election handed to him by the Supreme Court
in 2000 as, effectively, a coup d'etat.

The bigotry and racism that had never really gone away has surfaced--big time--as a reaction to the audaciousness
of people in this country electing a black man to the White House. HB 2 in NC is a direct result of
LGBT people gaining marriage equality, which the state had banned by "putting it to a vote". The states' right dirtbags--who have never gotten over losing the Civil War--
now want to have a war on LGBT. I don't think Orlando will be an isolated event. There are too many guns in the
hands of too many haters in this country who've been given permission from people like Trump to act on their
hatred.

I'm 65. I figure I might be lucky to have 20 years left. I don't want to move--damn, not again!--but I do not want to live in a place where people are carrying
guns everywhere. And I'm happiest when I'm at the beach. So...we'll see. I'm trying to get my husband to agree to go take a 'look-see' at Kauai, tacked on to
a trip in August to California for a family wedding.

[LostOne4Ever]

45. I'm also from Texas. A little West of the Midland/Odessa Region (Heart of Bush Country). nt

[trof]

47. Treading water in Baldwin County, Alabama.

Reddest county in a bright red state.
We are currently 'famous' for our county commissioners voting NOT to lower flags in sympathy with Orlando.

Our repug speaker of the repug house of representatives was just convicted on 12 of 23 felony counts and is on the way to a lengthy jail term.

Our very Christian governor (the Luv Guv) is facing impeachment over shenanagins with his "closest" female assistant.

Our even more Christian state supreme court chief justice (AKA The 10 Commandments Judge) has been relieved of duties for disobeying a federal court (again) and is facing dismissal (again).

Outside of that things are just hunky dory in the totally repug controlled state.