Kelly: Nebraska politics not as simple as Democrats vs. Republicans

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/columnists/kelly-nebraska-politics-not-as-simple-as-democrats-vs-republicans/article_735beb5e-3123-5bc4-bfac-94bc75bcf973.html

POSTED: MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2015 12:30 AM
By Michael Kelly / World-Herald columnist

A left-leaning Nebraskan’s recent essay in the New York Times lamented our right-leaning state’s political imbalance.

“Nebraska’s Lonely Progressives” was the title of Lincoln author-psychologist Mary Pipher’s piece. At a meeting after November’s election, she wrote, a fellow liberal flatly proclaimed: “We are doomed.”



Lincoln author-psychologist Mary Pipher says Nebraska needs more progressives. Still, she loves the state's "people and its geography."


No doubt, conservative Nebraska is tilting even further to the right compared to, say, 25 years ago. But doomsday or not, Pipher’s negative stance about Nebraska not being “progressive” drew pointed response.

David E. Corbin, professor emeritus of public health at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and a self-described progressive himself, wrote in a follow-up letter in the Times: “Despite being a very red state, Nebraska has some pretty progressive traits.”

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"Nebraska's Lonely Progressives" by Mary Pipher

"There's Hope for Nebraska's Liberals" by David E. Corbin

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Her point of view can be applied to any of the Southern states as well.

It does make thinking about politics, or any burning topic, much easier for people if they limit themselves to polarizing concepts...
"either-or" "black or white" "good or bad" blanket labels.