Originally Posted by don'ttreadonme

I'm Southern and in one of the largest cities in the country and don't agree with your take on it at all. (Not surprising!)

I think your side likes to paint it like it's so black and white but it's not. Do you really think no minorities or immigrants are conservative? People who worked their asses off to make it here (and learned English!) and be successful. People who left oppressive countries to find liberty.

My neighborhood is mostly white but we certainly have hispanics, blacks, Asians, biracial families. We even have Jews and Muslims. I don't know how these people in particular vote but I'm in a heavily Republican district so some of 'em must not be liberals.

Originally Posted by SouthernDemocrat

I am not saying that no minorities are conservative. There are always those 3 or 4 Blacks the cameras zoom in on from time to time at the RNC conventions.

Seriously though, the vast majority of minorities do not vote Republican though, and there is a strong statistical correlation between how diverse a community is, and whether it votes Democrat or Republican.

Originally Posted by don'ttreadonme

I don't think you need a "vast majority" of minorities to win elections, though. We'd love to get just 25% of the black vote.

Originally Posted by 1069

To me, "real America" is the heavily liberal city I was born in and have lived my entire life in, but I'm not stupid enough to think that's "real America" for everyone (which is why I've never left; I know other parts of America must be very different, and that people there would have a different value-system than mine).
The majority of American people today are not inhabitants of small towns and rural areas... although, statistically, perhaps the majority of white conservative fundamentalist christians are, and it's unsurprising to me that they'd believe they are the only "real" people, and that their America is therefore the only "real" America.

Such is their arrogance.

Originally Posted by 1069

My exclusionism is based upon their (self-chosen) belief system, which I find detrimental to society.
Theirs is largely based upon factors that people cannot help, such as race and sexual orientation.

No. I do not see the irony.

Originally Posted by SouthernDemocrat

Oh, and also like I tell my wife that is from Texas, Texas is the Southwest, not the South.

Originally Posted by Gabby

Not if you're a Texan. Southwest is more like New Mexico and Arizona.

Originally Posted by SgtRock

The way things are going I think we will soon have to change the name of our country to Das Sozialistische Republik der Staaten von Amerika or
The Socialist Republic of the United States of America.

Originally Posted by SouthernDemocrat

I know I am only kidding (and it pisses my wife off every time I say that) Anyone that has ever been to East Texas knows that its definitely the south.