Real Time in Mississippi

[jhale667]

More reasons why you're not paid to think, ELBOW.

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[Unchainme]

The poor here don't vote conservative.

It's a weird phenomena in the US, I don't think it happens anywhere else.

Had a professor who hailed from Germany, mention how good of a marketing job, that the average joe from detroit, who drives a pickup truck voted for Reagan back in the day.

can mos. def. see your reasoning there though.

Not all..conservatism is bad, imo. Just.. the social shit, and the faux neo-conservatives that have emerged in the past 30 years have been godawful.

I don't consider any of the candidates out there to be truly "Conservative" in the light I see them as being as such, I see them as all pretty much democrats who like to cut taxes, and insert bullshit religious positions to keep getting elected.

Closest conservative in my eyes on this campaign is probably Ron Paul.

[ELVIS]

Ron Paul is a true conservative...

[gbranton]

I have a friend who was working down there and he said on the Mississippi side of the border everything was cleaned up. You could still see some damage from Katrina but everything was cleaned up. Then when you got to the Louisiana side of the border nothing had been done. It was a total mess. A lot of people in Mississippi are workers. They roll up their sleeves and get things done on their own. There is a huge difference in mentality of what is the government going to do to fix this? and ok people, let's organize and fix this mess. Politicians hate the later type because they are harder to control.

I was working in south Mississippi when Katrina hit and saw it first hand. The people there may be country and some may be what we'd consider backward, but when disaster struck they didn't sit around and cry for the cameras to get a handout, they got off their ass and fixed whatever they had left. I came to admire the hard work and determination of those people.

[ELVIS]

Exactly gb...

Like I said, FUCK BILL MAHAR! for trying to portray Mississippi as a bunch of hopeless, backward nutjobs...

[jhale667]

Exactly gb...

Like I said, FUCK BILL MAHAR! for trying to portray Mississippi as a bunch of hopeless, backward nutjobs...

He accurately portrayed why a segment of the population there votes against their own best interests... you're just pissed because it cuts too close to home...


(For the record, it could have just have easily been filmed near where I grew up - but you don't hear me cryin' about it... stupid people need to evolve already.)

[gbranton]

He accurately portrayed why a segment of the population there votes against their own best interests...

The whole "voting against their own best interests" line of thinking kills me. How are they voting against their own self interests? Maybe they are interested in something besides a handout. Do government programs solve poverty? No. If so, we wouldn't have any poor people (and compared to the rest of the world we really don't), especially in places run by liberals, such as Detriot, New York, Chicago or closer to home, New Orleans, instead these programs seem to create more dependency. Many of us southerners are more interested in a sense of independence and of liberty, even if it makes life a little more challenging in the process. I know a lot of people who would much rather be free to hunt, fish and ride around in an old pickup truck but want to EARN what little they have. If you gave them a choice between a small house in the woods with a fishing boat, a few guns and a tree stand and a new, clean duplex in a housing project, coupled with a nice government check they would take the woods every day. THAT is their interest and they want the government to stay the fuck out of it.

You can't judge people by how they appear. That fella in the red hat reminded me a lot of my father (until he started talking, my dad was a much smarter man) they definitely had the same fashion sense and yet my father was a successful small business man in a rural area. Ask any small businessperson you know and they will tell you that it isn't their best interest to elect big governmnt progressives from either party.

[ELVIS]

Awesome post!

[Dr. Love]

Yes it is ...

I think a lot of people from other areas don't really understand that spirit of independence and desire not to have the government involved in our lives. It runs strong in Texas.

[ELVIS]

It runs strong in south Louisiana...

[Nitro Express]

I had a boss who was a San Fransisco liberal. I liked him and he was really good to work for but one thing that drove me nuts is anytime we had a client from the southern United States call in he would actually get angry and start slagging them. Not to their face but behind the scenes. He would say horrible stuff and it didn't matter who they were if you called in from a southern state he hated you.

He also had this arrogance that he was superior and and that. I basically looked at him that he was no better than the white hick racists he assumed everyone from the south was. It got old and it was unprofessional.

Oh well, most people from San Fransisco these days think their farts smell better. When South Park came out with that Smug episode it was right on the money.

To be honest. I think the American public are being played. A lot of this division we are in have media programs influencing it. The media creates or reinforces the stereotypes and once we are fighting each other over a difference of lifestyle and social issues, we can be herded and controlled just like a third world country they do the same thing to with color revolutions. We argue over a whole lot of nothing actually.

There are a lot of people who don't have a lot of money but they work very hard. I call them the working poor and I don't know why they are hated. They aren't a burdon on the public treasury. Living in a big city would drive these people crazy. They prefer a simple lifestyle and they want to take care of themselves and live the way they want to. They know perfectly well handouts come with strings attatched and they don't want the strings.

[Nitro Express]

Exactly gb...

Like I said, FUCK BILL MAHAR! for trying to portray Mississippi as a bunch of hopeless, backward nutjobs...

Like I said. The big daddy knows best enlightened liberal think their farts smell better.

[ELVIS]

You're exactly right, nitro...

And a few of those smug liberals post regularly on this forum...

[jhale667]

Um, who the fuck exactly is asking for a handout, or to live in a duplex and get a government check? More dog-whistle Repuke talking point bullshit.

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[gbranton]

Um, who the fuck exactly is asking for a handout, or to live in a duplex and get a government check? More dog-whistle Repuke talking point bullshit.

Um, These fucking deadbeat assholes and millions like them.

See 2:19

You could starve them all to death by hiding their foodstamps under their work shoes.