Question for those who live in red areas, do you show support for Democrats?

[RazzleCat]

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I have a vote blue bumper sticker that I keep thinking about placing on my car, then think again. I have a new car, and I am very worried (again live in a red area) that my car will be vandalized in some way if I use that bumper sticker. I am thinking a keying on the paint or some such thing.

Do any of you have the same fears? If so do you do so anyway? Or are you like me and just too chicken.

Wow lots of response, most "chicken" like me. Makes me wonder why we all feel as if we will either have our bodies or property attacked. Hard to put in words, so are the current crop of republicans so dangerous?

[Atticus]

1. Use magnetic stickers and peel them off when you leave the car. Replace them when

you're finished shopping.

[Baked Potato]

23. That's what we do.

[Funtatlaguy]

27. Me too.

[Jimbo S]

2. My thought would be

to own a Prius. I'm skittish about have stickers on my car as well. Drive a Prius and you won't need stickers, because just driving the car is making a statement.

[DBoon]

5. People harass Prius owners even with no political stickers

I experienced this even here in CA, thankfully not that often. Other drivers will go out of their way to cut you off.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

21. Tell me about it.

Not so much cutting me off, but closely tail-gating even when I was already driving over the speed limit.

I pulled over a few times when it happened, then watched the tail-gater slow way down after passing me... making it obvious that harassing me was the only motivation.

Always a pick-up truck in those instances. Always.

In Ohio. Drive a different vehicle now after leasing the Prius.

[RazzleCat]

22. I drive a hybrid, but its a stealth one

A 2020 Honda Insight, looks like a "fancy civic". You have to see the hybrid badge to know.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

24. I'm just driving a Camry now.

Not bad gas mileage.

No more tail-gating issues either, although that's not why I switched. I just decided to buy the older Camry outright to avoid monthly payments.

[DBoon]

28. I was driving to Las Vegas in my Prius once

a BMW cuts in front of me and stays there.

Eventually, I move to the #2 lane and end up getting ahead of the BMW. Not intentionally, just going with the traffic.

I look to my right and see the same BMW driving very fast in the *shoulder* to the right opf a semi obviously trying to cut ahead of me again.

This guy had to go all the way to the shoulder just to cut me off.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

30. That's horrible!

And as you surely know, the Prius cuts through the air like a hot knife through butter and can move quite fast once up to speed!

Very quiet too, so I caught myself a few times driving way over the speed limit on long, mostly-secluded sections of highway. At least until my relative speed was compared to a group of cars ahead of me driving far slower -- i.e., the speed limit!

I never understood the hate.

I got behind a couple Prius drivers over the years who were apparently trying to get 100 mpg or something, driving inappropriately slow in some situations, but that certainly wasn't the norm.

[jeffreyi]

3. No. Pick your battles.

[lkinwi]

4. Yes and I've had air let out of my tire and been keyed.

Biden signs around here have been destroyed or stolen.

[redstatebluegirl]

6. We don't put stickers on our cars anymore after someone keyed our brand new car during the 2018

election. It happened in a parking lot by a grocery store. The store did not have cameras which really made me mad in this day and age. We put signs in our yard, but since 2016 we put them close to the house. We had a bunch of them stolen in 2016 until we put a small sign on it that said if they take it or destroy it we just get another one and give more money to the Democratic Party, it stopped after that.

We have had a real mess here in our town with the Trumpers recalling our mayor and female council members trying to "take back our city from the libs". They aligned with the police in town, making it sound like it was about "defunding the police" . They have been more scary than in the past. The leader chased a car full of teenagers who drove by one of their pop ups playing a song they didn't like about Trumper and threatened them with a brick.

[Sherman A1]

7. I paid multiple thousands of hard earned dollars

for my vehicles. I will not add bumper stickers of any type for any reason to them and screw up the paint or risk them being vandalized.

[duhneece]

8. From the Iraq War when I had 'Bush Lied. Thousands Died' in a VERY Red area

We haven't elected a Democrat to any state or local office in over 25 years. Our US Congresswoman Xochitl Torres Small is among the most challenged in her race....and yet I put on stickers on every car with no keying or tire slashing or anything. I use magnetic bumper stickers but have a permanent vinyl 'I can't breathe' on the front hood. On both sides and the back I have 'Proud Otero County Democrat' or our Dem Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham or 'Got Veteran Benefits? Thank a Democrat' or 'Got Social Security? Thank a Democrat..
It smooths my soul in some weird way.

[obamanut2012]

9. When I lived in a red area, absolutely not, including on my car

Nothing political, nothing showing I'm gay, either. Nothing but a 26.1 sticker on my car.

I didn't want to be raped and/or murdered, or have my car messed up.

[HAB911]

10. Not here in Florida

No bumper stickers, no yard signs. I trust Trumpers. I trust them to be violent.

[mcar]

11. We are going to post yard signs for the first time

I've had Democratic bumper stickers on my car starting in 2008. I will admit, though, that I didn't have a Hillary sticker on in '16 because I was afraid of the reaction.

I am going to put Biden/Harris stickers on our cars this time because fck them.

[Nitram]

12. I live in a red county in Virginia. I don't display bumper stickers or yard signs because I fear

what that lone young white MAGA guy with a gun might do. My immediate neighbors in this rural area are actually liberals, but there are enough angry, jobless rednecks around to suggest I should exert judicious caution.

[yellerpup]

13. I support Democrats in my red state

by making phone calls and canvassing for Democratic candidates. I contribute to my county Democratic Party, volunteer to man the polls, and write letters to my representatives and the local press. I don't sport a bumper sticker but I do post signs in my yard. I'm 71 and that's about all I can handle.

[cyclonefence]

14. too chicken n/t

[Timewas]

15. No

Around this area it would probably start a war... I am not particularly concerned for myself but there are others that live here and I won't endanger them.

That is really a pretty sad statement on the conditions in our country...

[LakeArenal]

16. Yes. As a matter of fact...

In 2018 I had to drive 50 miles to find any local with signs. My local ordered only a few. Charged $7 each. 59 miles away they were $3.
The trump sign I custom ordered $30

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[WhiteTara]

17. up until this year

there has been no democrat to show up for the race. This year, there are 2 women that may or may not have a chance.

I have a 93 Izusu Trooper and if it got keyed, no one would notice. (it took itself on an adventure one day and rolled across a road and into an iron fence and that certainly made it a mess) I don't know where you live, but you could use magnets to hold your sign on and take it off when you are concerned.

[LexVegas]

18. I live in a heavily red county in Virginia and don't display my politics on any of my property.

Not really worth the hassle to me. I vote and donate and thats enough; don't need the aggravation of dealing with a bunch of rednecks fucking with my stuff.

[walkingman]

19. I was walking with a Obama and Peace sign below it (Homemade) on a rural Texas road

and this pick'em up truck when on the wrong side of the road and brushed me off. I also wore a "Peace Monger" tshirt to town one day and a local yokel tried to start a argument with me - I just ignored him.

Maybe just my experiences but it seems that the right-wingers seem to start the conflicts, etc. I have never seen a Dem start trouble like this. In my mind they take pride in being assholes? Maybe just "shitkicker" mentality?

[TruckFump]

20. I live in a blue area -- South Bay Los Angeles County.

I have two cars -- a very ancient Honda CRV and an new Lincoln sedan. The CRV is a liberal bumper sticker billboard on wheels. The Lincoln has no bumper stickers.

Even in a blue area, there are RWNJ who think they have a gawd given right to destroy anything that is against Trump IMO. So nothing on the Lincoln...however, there is not much they can do to harm the CRV. It's low mileage and in excellent shape, but it's nearly 20 years old. I have had bumper stickers removed or written over the last few years, but never any vandalism. Most of the time, I get thumbs up from other drivers when I am using the CRV.

In red state, a Biden bumper sticker? I would worry more about getting shot than having my new car vandalized.

[Bettie]

25. I put out yard signs

but we don't do bumper stickers at all...my husband has a weird hatred of all bumper stickers and I haven't found magnetic ones that stick well.

The fact is, though, that a lot of the right wingers I know are violent by nature and will accost you on the street and scream in your face.

[Talitha]

26. I live in a red(neck) area of northern WI...

No signs or bumper stickers - I donate and vote.

[BannonsLiver]

29. No, way too dangerous for your vehicle

I had an Obama yard sign in 2008 that I put just outside our front door because I didn’t want it stolen.

[Midnight Writer]

31. No display, but I will speak my mind if they bring it up.

I've actually had pretty good luck in debating Right Wingers.

I try not to argue so much as ask them questions that throw them off their game.