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Thanks for the tip. Here's another for the Rick Santorum Was Right file: Sundance Film Festival to Feature Documentary About Enumclaw Horse Pervert.

i love the south!

a recovering californian...

actually, it didn't take that long - kissed the ground here six years and five months ago and haven't thought about californistan since!

Has anyone got access to the full article? I want to read it just so I can understand why some arrogant liberal douchebag thinks that, because Im a white Southerner, I'm automatically a racist and/or evolutionary throwback. Not that it would surprise me, since I've been acutely aware for years (starting in college) that non-Southerners look down their noses at us.

Having been reared just a few miles from the Mason-Dixon line, it's no surprise as to how either "side" feels about the other. However, I know Southerners to be just as new age, queer, condescending and anti-God as any northerner. Northerners are just louder and more obnoxious, that's all.

BTW Nanc...thought it was Californication, but gotta admit, I like Californistan too!

I remember meeting an acquaintance on the train one day back when I was commuting. We chatted about many different topics while we rode into NYC, and I figured out her lib "I really care about everyone" attitude pretty quickly. But after establishing her credentials as one of the "party that cares," she told me how when her husband was in grad school they had to live down South. She told me she made sure they moved back up to the Northeast as soon as they could because she couldn't bear the thought of her children growing up with Southern accents. So much for embracing diversity!

,blockquote>leaving all correct-thinking people with no choice but to vote for the anti-Southern party, Democrats.

My, how times have changed...

That is so heartless and hypocritical of them. I'm from Florida. So, in their bigoted minds, that automatically makes me a racist, borderline-retarded hick, even though I'm actually a recent college graduate with a B.A. in History and a GPA of about 3.11 who cannot stand any form of racism. Why not just portray all the Northerners as snooty, condescending, pseudo-intellectual jerkoffs while we're at it?

Wrong. I love the South. Damned proud to say so--and nowhere do I say any differently.

Schaller, on the other hand, doesn't like it so much. I write about him.

The American electorate turned the Republican Party into a mere regional party this November. There's only one Republican congressman left in all of New England. About a third of Republcian congressmen in the entire Northeast lost their seats. That's an issue worth contemplating. Why did it happen?

Hey Pearlstein, I don't think one election can turn the GOP into a "regional" party, no more than the 2004 election made the dems simply a "coastal" party.

Don't kid yourself for a minute that just because you won one round of elections that your cause is just. I hear old Chavez got a big win recently. The people loved Hitler, as long as he blamed their problems on someone else.

Right now in our country, and throughout much of the world, conservativism is almost a taboo, a politically incorrect way of thinking. Now think of the biggest sources of information we have in this country....the news media and Hollywood. There is an undeniable tilt towards the left in both of these.

When most of what people see in the theatres and on the news gives the same message, though subtle, (America is bad because of Bush and the GOP, the rest of the world is good, and might forgive us for our arrogance if we get rid of Bush), eventually enough voters will believe it. The old "everybody knows that" way of thinking. Truth becomes irrelevant.

I'll tell you something. The same things go on in the world no matter who is in office. There were terrible atrocities happening throughout the Clinton era.

The big difference is that when Bush is in office, all we hear in the news and from the entertainment industry (this generation's sages) are the negative things that go on. The hype is given to how bad things are, always with a left-leaning/Bush-jabbing tone. "Will Bush be able to win back the voters", kind of tone by so-called journalists with an undeniable agenda.

Just imagine if the media were completely unbiased and if the entertainment industry would simply "shut up and sing" or "shut up and act", do you think it would have been the same outcome? Of course not.

So please understand that a democratic victory isn't cause for republicans to do any soul-searching. We know what we believe in, and we know who's side we're on. Just because you duped people with over-hyped scandals that were bad when the GOP did it but not even newsworthy when YOUR side did it, that doesn't make you good, it doesn't make you right.

I can't see anything good coming from a democratic congress. You guys have no plan, no idea how to make the world better, except raise taxes and give money to poor countries, declare peace in the world while ignoring the violence that's always there and doing nothing to stop it, and above all, blame ourselves for all the world's ills. In fact, you'll be using Bush as a scapegoat for your own failures for years to come!