You are right. All of rural Florida is reactionary racist and and stupid by choice. So are Pensacola, Jacksoville, Jacksonville, Ocala and St. Augustine. The other urban areas are a mixe bag.

Don't be absurd.

@wordywalt go pound sand in your ass, but take your head out of it first.

@wordywalt Ever read this book? Don't tell me that I am being absurd.

It Can't Happen Here by 1935 Sinclair Lewis.

@MrDragon So, allthat you can find to say is a vulgar and senseless retort? Is that the depth of your thought?

@wordywalt don't be absurd.

Your opinion is noted.

Your heads stuck up your ass pal.

@CuddyCruiser your opinion is noted

@CuddyCruiser oh, you are upset that your boyfriend Cuomo had to resign. Baw!

@Heavykevy1985 Your a fuckin’ jackass troll. Sites like GAB or PARLER are more your speed. YOU could never survive here in New York. The large population of minorities will frighten you away there little boy.

@CuddyCruiser NY is a shithole ran by idiots like De Blasio and Cuomo. You can have it.

@CuddyCruiser I lived in Westchester County and commuted into Manhatten for over 30 years.After I retired, I moved to N.C. a little over two years ago.

The metro NYC area is horrible. If I had it to do over again, I would have given up the large income for a better living experience.

@Heavykevy1985 your state is one of the poorest states in this country. Surrounded by religious idiot whackos.

@CuddyCruiser better than junkies and criminal weirdos and a state that is hostile to law-abiding taxpayers. That is why many have left NY in droves

@Heavykevy1985 So what’s your point? Junkies and criminal “weirdos” exist everywhere. And many of the taxes we pay here in states like NY, CA, CT, NJ, Connecticut, Massachusetts all go to pay for the poorer states like yours which have the most poverty and use Socialist programs like food assistance that all you rednecks rail about so much.

@CuddyCruiser While it is true that NY pays more in Federal taxes than it receives from the Federal Government, none of the virtually punitive NY State income tax does anything but fund NY State programs.

In addition to the high State income tax, NYC has an additional income tax, and Sales taxes throughout NY State are high. Then there are the VERY high Real Estate Taxes. While I lived in a nice house in Westchester, the $22,000 Real Estate tax was outrageous. I know one of my ex-neighbors I keep in touch with is now paying a over $24,000 annually. Last, between the Metro North monthly fare, parking at the station and subsequent subway fare I was paying $800 monthy to commute.

There is nothing in the Metro NYC area that comes near to justifying the cost of living there.

@CuddyCruiser not like in NY all the while morons like De Blasio house them in four star hotels. Instead of trying to act all high and mighty, just admit that you know Jack shit about the south and blue states are big shitholes that those with half a brain and money are leaving

@Heavykevy1985 Hmm………what exactly about the south should I know? Or, rather, supposed to know? Other than it’s a bunch of states such as AL, FL, GA, TX, LA, TN, SC, NC, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and that they are all inhabited by far mostly Religious whackjobs who still think they are living in the 40s or 50s who just want to push their misbegotten ways on everyone else. And it may do you some good to take some lessons in civics because you clearly don’t know your cock from your nose. As I’ve said earlier, GAB and PARLER are your speed, GAB especially. All your favorites like Qanon, White Supremacists, proud boys, Flat earthers, Even Marjorie Taylor Greene is on there. So…..run along now there sport.

@Alienbeing And I will agree with much of what you say here. It’s like this…….I’m in a big trade Union here in NYC and I’m making an excellent salary. Plus I also realize that I cannot stay here and retire, which I plan on doing when I’m 62. I live in a 2 bedroom apartment. 2 years ago I bought a 1 acre piece of property in North Carolina which has an existing mobile home. and the taxes on it are $500 a year. The salary I make here, plus all the Union benefits I have, I never could get in that state, or any of the Southern States for that matter, because they all have “Right to Work” laws that are designed to keep unions weak and ineffective to represent their members. If it were not for the above circumstances, believe me I would have been gone from here sooner.

@CuddyCruiser yeah, instead of salient points, you are just slinging mud. By the way, unions are a relic of a bygone era. They are unnecessary and corrupt. Big labor is just as worse as big business. All of worker’s rights are codified into law anyways.

@Heavykevy1985 You are one Fuckin’ huge jackass.

Do you have a 40 hour workweek? Do you get paid overtime? Do you get paid holidays and vacation time? Personal time? If you do it’s because of unions idiot. Besides, you live in a right to work state where workers get meager, if any benefits at all and next to no job protection. Your a moron and your a troll, like I said, your crowd is on GAB. I’m not wasting any more time with a evangelical such as yourself. Go take some hydro chloroquine and get yourself some bleach injections. Your God told you it’s ok. On that note I’m finished dealing with you. Over and out.

@CuddyCruiser not a Christian and don’t care too much for Gab but you seem to. Yes, the unions helped secure those rights but unions are not needed to guarantee them when unions have a vested interest in politics and collecting dues and that is it

@CuddyCruiser I understand your point. However consider this, while wages are lower here as opposed to NYC, they aren't that much lower and at the same time expenses are much lower. My experience is the net effect is much more buying power in N.C. than in or around NYC.

The only problem living in N.C. verses NYC I find is it is difficult to get good pizza.

@CuddyCruiser Your take on the South is incorrect. Most of the South has changed. LA, and MS are still living in the past, but the remainder of the States you listed are not in the same mold.

Here in N.C. we have a Democrat for Gov. He is in his second term and well liked. The spilt between Democrats ad Republicans is nearing 50/50. The far Western part of the State tends to be more right wing (and less populated) than the remainder of the State, but even there the City of Ashville is about as liberal as it can get.

Broad generalities are never correct.

@Alienbeing I only meant they were all the same in as far as their religious beliefs, that was it. I have several friends and relatives in NC as well, from Youngsville, Creedmor, Chapel Hill. and those areas I see are becoming more diverse slowly but surely. All of what you hear nowadays about how certain segments of the white population are afraid of the changes happening, it’s fuckin hogwash because being here it’s nothing new and where I am it’s extremely diverse as I’m sure you probably know.

@Alienbeing what exactly do you mean by living in the past? I live in MS and it has come a long way.

@Heavykevy1985 As a whole, MS is backward. An excellent example is the general skepticism MS has regarding Covid vaccination, and as a whole they are more evangelical than other States.

@CuddyCruiser We are working on the religious nonsense. It is a little hard because, sadly, Billy Graham and his offspring are naitive to N. Carolina.

@Alienbeing being skeptical of something does not make you backwards. Also, being religious does not make you backwards. There is general skepticism in the Dakotas and other places too.

@Heavykevy1985 Tell me one vaid reason to be skeptical of the Covid vaccine.

Where does your State rank in education or health?

Last, I disagree with you, being religious does in fact makes one backwards because it ignores science in favor of provable fiction.

@Alienbeing several. For example, who would benefit the most from being forced to take vaccines? Big pharma. Also, what are the long term effects? As of late, even people being vaccinated are still getting COVID. Plus, you have a 99% chance of survival of the virus. Rankings based on what metrics? Cities like Baltimore are doing far worse than the state of MS. Lastly, Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is a Christian. So were people like Rene Descartes and Blaise Pascal. I think that religion is silly and superstitious but there is just as much religiosity towards progressives going along with the government than any Christian

@Heavykevy1985 Your first example is absurd. The person receiving the vaccine benefits most. Your second example is speculative so it is not valid. Additionally, nothing is indicated at this time. Third the fact that some who have been vaccinated still catch Covid at best deserves a yawn. No vaccine is 100% effective, and thus far those that have cought Covid after vaccination virtually never exhibit symptoms worse than the common cold. I'd rather have common cold symptoms than die, wouldn't you?

To sum up your "reasons", you have no valid reason. Catch up on science.

I asked you how your State ranks, not how Baltimore rates.

@Alienbeing and I ask you by what metric? No, making vaccines mandatory would benefit big pharma because their vaccines will be the ones bought up. I am caught up science including authoritarian jerks like Fauci who encouraged mask mandates all the while telling people in private correspondences that masks are ineffective. Medicines usually take years of testing before being approved. We will still not know the long term effects. When it comes down to it, states that are employing draconian measures have just as high rates as anywhere else. As mentioned, 99% survival rate. Why is a vaccine necessary?

@Heavykevy1985 If you can't see vaccinations are very effective, there is no use in me trying to reasoan with you.

Have a nice day.

Texas &/or Texan humble? Never.

The white poor do not believe they deserve anything better but the racist in them wants to stop others from voting.

I agree. They are just emboldened by the moral decay of the Republican party.

I agree.

Uggh DeSantis is #floridaman exemplified.

@Scott321 I'm a Florida boy, and I think Governor DeStupid is from somewhere off-planet.

Why wait for them to secede? Can't we throw them out? It'd be no different than giving them what they say they want anyway.

Is there legal mechanism to do this?

@twill None that I'm aware of.
I'll have to ask Google.

@twill - Hang on there, a few of us may need to secede from Texas before we get thrown out with the bathwater.

@RussRAB My brother lived in Richland Hills for a while, maybe 20 years. He'll be staying with Texas....he's been bitten by the evangelical bug. I don't communicate with him anymore

@twill - He would be my neighbor. I'm in North Richland Hills. But that about where the similarity ends.

I have said for a long time that if Texas ever again leaves the Union we should let them, in fact we should encourage it.