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There are good and crappy individuals everywhere.

As a collective, though, I think religion has the least influence on government in California, Oregon and Washington than on any other group of states in the country. And for me, that's why the West Coast is a great place to live. No blue laws or some Bible-thumping asshole deciding what I can or can't do.

 

If the South is so bad, why do so many yankees come down here and wind up staying?
I've never heard a single southerner say, "I want to retire and move up north."

 

Duck that.

 

Weather. Plain and simple. Older people like it warm.

Plus they want to find the cheapest place to live (ie, low taxes), since they don't need good schools any more.

 

You have fingered the pulse of my county.

 

Please win, Sen. Warnock.....

Herschel Walker: U.S. should keep 'gas-guzzling cars' that produce 'good emissions'

 

The South is great as long as you don't pay too much attention to what is going on. There is a grim, bloody magic to the region and I love it, but it's hard to not fall into a permanent state of rage and despair when you see everything from a worm's eye view all the time. Sometimes I think hatefulness is my people's spiritual lidocaine.

 

Pence Says Trump Was ‘Reckless’ in Assailing Him on Jan. 6

None of these assholes will say anything unless they can make a buck or three.

 

It really takes some work to blow the number of Senate races the GOP has blown over the years, particularly with their cash advantages.

 

Dear Herschel:

Again, I must say:
You is a dumb fuck.

Love, Mama

 

I think big intramural fight is coming to the GOP, with Trumpism on one side and...Cheneyism? Romneyism?...on the other. Democrats will aide the first side - they already have - because it's beatable, and the second side has to decide what it stands for that is distinct from Trumpism.

I doubt the GOP has any earthly idea what that is.

Trumpism, morally ugly as it is, filled a vacuum that had formed in the party after Romney's loss. DeSantis, in theory, could be on the Romney side of the divide, but he seems an awful lot like Trump.

The larger question could be how the GOP approaches the voting structure questions. Mail-in voting and drop-offs are convenient. How long can the GOP tenably argue to voters that it is against convenience? (It can untenably argue it for a long time, but it's hardly convenient.)