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  •  you can add the North Coast of Cali 2 that n/t (2+ / 0-)

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    •  Really? (0+ / 0-)

      How far North are you talking?  Fort Bragg?
      Eureka?  Mendocino County?  They struck me as pretty liberal.  Granola actually.

      •  Even traditionally "liberal" communities have (4+ / 0-)

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        their issues. I'm in the CT and even today getting an oil change watching MSNBC's coverage of Hillary at Benedict college someone leaned over to me talking about "how she just wants to give those people money".

        I was able to point out Benedict played a historic roll in the civil rights movement, at which point I think this person decided I probably wasn't the right type of person to share these sentiments with.

        And CT is a blue state.

        "The revolution's just an ethical haircut away..." Billy Bragg

        by grannyhelen on Fri Jan 25, 2008 at 04:59:58 PM PDT

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        •  Argh, could be.... (2+ / 0-)

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          Hillary won New Hampshire with lower income whites who had fled Boston....

          During the busing controversy of the 70s, Boston had some of the most racist demonstrations against busing.....Those folks would now be older, white  & Hillary voters?

          Obama will have to transcend.....

        •  Amazing how the racism is just under (5+ / 0-)

           the surface.

           I look Scandinavian -- but I have relatives who look Native American -- we have a mixed ethnic heritage.

           In Washington State there are a lot of red-necked haters and I've been in situations where based on my outward appearance people have confided in my their deepest racists thoughts.

           I'll listen -- let them dig their hole -- and then I'll educate them. The potatoes that they had for dinner was thanks to South American Indians -- and the corn and pumpkins -- again Indians. Oh and the peanuts -- the genius of a blank man.

           Obama isn't my choice -- I made my choice based on issues. I've been a Jessie Jackson delegate -- and voted for a man rather than the woman candidate based on issues. (Besides the woman was a GOP religious right ring NUT.)

            But you know in the Caribbean -- even "light" black people discriminate against the darker black individuals. I have a dear friend who happens to be a blank woman who is a "light" Caribbean with small lips. She fell in love with a dark Caribbean man and had to leave the islands to be able to marry him -- she also had to wait until her parents died. The history she gave me on this issue could probably fill book.

           

           

          BROKAW: You know what I think we're going to have to go back and do? Wait for the voters to make their judgment.

          by Carib and Ting on Fri Jan 25, 2008 at 05:16:27 PM PDT

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      •  "l'il Alabama" in Del Norte: it's a world away n/ (1+ / 0-)

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