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In reply to the discussion: "the big sort" Americans are fleeing to places where political views match their own [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(101,315 posts)26. Repubs: "we don't have to wear masks!" Dems: "they put broken glass in our mailbox"
"Indiana's a red state as it is, but Greenfield is also very red," says Tiffany Wooten. "We as Democrats felt very out of place. If people in public were talking about politics it was always a Trump view. We heard 'Those damn liberals' a lot."
She says during the Trump years, it seems like people became more antagonistic toward them for being Democrats. She even fell out with some of her own family of conservative Christians over their support for the former president. And her 18-year-old son, Cole, says his politics ran counter to the kids at his high school, who were MAGA fans like their parents.
"Some of 'em would even have Trump meetups," he says. "They would all bring their Trump flags and then just preach to each other about how great he was. It was just a really threatening atmosphere."
One afternoon, they discovered someone had put broken glass in their mailbox.
She says during the Trump years, it seems like people became more antagonistic toward them for being Democrats. She even fell out with some of her own family of conservative Christians over their support for the former president. And her 18-year-old son, Cole, says his politics ran counter to the kids at his high school, who were MAGA fans like their parents.
"Some of 'em would even have Trump meetups," he says. "They would all bring their Trump flags and then just preach to each other about how great he was. It was just a really threatening atmosphere."
One afternoon, they discovered someone had put broken glass in their mailbox.
In one direction, it might be a "sort"; in the other, I think it's "political cleansing".
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"the big sort" Americans are fleeing to places where political views match their own [View all]
Demovictory9
Feb 2022
OP
So, you don't want to move to a "Red" Country but you want a "Red" policy of lower taxes?
brooklynite
Feb 2022
#49
RE Texas...Liberals are moving there as well...it's purple now, thus the draconian Election laws
ashredux
Feb 2022
#12
It's become a running joke here in TN that so many folks from California are moving here
Docreed2003
Feb 2022
#17
its almost as if Rightwingers expect red areas to be utopias. and some of the "sorting" in 80s/90s
Demovictory9
Feb 2022
#22
Repubs: "we don't have to wear masks!" Dems: "they put broken glass in our mailbox"
muriel_volestrangler
Feb 2022
#26