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Goathead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 08:39 PM
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What state epitomizes the "freeper" mentality?
For me, I think it's So. Dakota. Driving through that state on I-90 there are about a gazillion anti-abortion billboards and billboards accusing you of being a "baby-killer" etc.
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Must_B_Free Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 08:41 PM
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1. Georgia
They take great price in racism here.
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secedeeconomically Donating Member (380 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 08:41 PM
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2. do people actually live there? lol
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HockeyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 08:43 PM
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3. Texas, Flordia,
or ANYWHERE SOUTH OF THE MASON DIXON LINE?
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Devil Dog Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 10:20 PM
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21. Maryland is south of the Mason-Dixon line. Hardly a freeper state.
Among the bluest of the blues (for now, anyway).
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 10:45 AM
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40. Maryland is not going anywhere
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DebJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 08:45 PM
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5. didn't I read that South Dakota has been officially reclassified as
"Frontier" because of the low population density? I'm not kidding.
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Goathead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 08:49 PM
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12. The prairie states are becoming deserted
Big agribusiness and lack of jobs is forcing the young people to move out.
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BamaLefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 08:44 PM
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4. ALABAMA!!!!!!!!!!!
DON'T DISPUTE ME EITHER. ;) You have no idea... :cry:
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Zing Zing Zingbah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 10:52 PM
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32. I agree. n/t
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ismnotwasm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 08:45 PM
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6. Eastern Washington
So, I guess more half a state.
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TheFarseer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 08:45 PM
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7. Kansas is pretty bad for billboards
If SD can vote out the Senate minority leader, they are obviously up there for freeper-ness.
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indianablue Donating Member (558 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 08:45 PM
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8. Indiana....
A blue collar state with a southern heart.

Very racist
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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 09:08 PM
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18. I whole heartedly concur...
... Our economy is falling apart because it can't keep it's college grads. Schools are shitty because the rednecks here are adamantly opposed to raising taxes no matter how dire the problem. Everyone drives a gas guzzler. And the racism is insane.

I read a article the other day that the newly elected republicans are pushing a bill that will increase funding to suburban schools by taking away money from poorer urban schools. The reason they cite is because of increased enrollments in suburban schools, but the real reason is white flight from urban schools.
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indianablue Donating Member (558 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 09:12 PM
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20. GUNS GOD GAYS
That says it all.
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Cerridwen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 08:46 PM
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9. Nevada - hypocrisy is it's middle name
so to speak.

Brothels, 24 hour drinking, gambling, "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas."

Vegas is in the blue part of the state (Clark County, specifically) and kicks in the majority of state monies. The rest of the state goes red for what, values? Money? Mining? Ranchers?

Blech.

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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 10:23 PM
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24. I lived in Laughlin for a while.
I never knew you could fit so much human waste into one toilet!
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Cerridwen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 10:25 PM
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25. Yeah? You been to Vegas? Erk.
Then there's Pahrump. Oh geez, don't get me started.

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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 08:47 PM
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10. Mississippi
Goddamn
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 08:48 PM
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11. The State of Insanity, there is no other.
:D
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sadinred Donating Member (529 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 10:40 PM
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29. Yes. Freeperism is a state of mind! n/t
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 08:51 PM
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13. Oklahoma
there's a church on every corner here and I have never heard so much whining in my life about how the fundies are being "persecuted" for their beliefs. Go figure.

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CornField Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 11:22 PM
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34. I'll second that
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DrWeird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 08:54 PM
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14. ALABAMA!!!
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Lenape85 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 09:02 PM
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16. Tie, Bama and Mississippi
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 10:48 AM
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42. Well, Ole Miss is just about dead last in every standard of quality
Is perhaps the single most backward state in the nation.

Utah is the scariest though.
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the Princess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 08:54 PM
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15. COLORADO!!!
Hands down!

They tried to take away gay rights - we have Focus On the Family and the Altitude makes everyone stupid.
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Lenape85 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 09:02 PM
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17. Dude, CO is so much of a swing state, it ain't even funny
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the Princess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 09:09 PM
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19. I live here
Swing state My *ss
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Willy Wonka Donating Member (283 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 11:37 PM
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36. Well, let's go out and set fire on the FOTF campus
and spray weed killers on their grass to say:

"FOCUS ON YOUR OWN GODDAMN FAMILY!!!"
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 10:22 PM
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22. The state of stupidity, of course!
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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 10:22 PM
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23. Eastern Oregon
Oh, sure, Portland and Eugene are nice and progressive, but once you go out into the desert...all Klan and Neo Nazis :scared:
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samplegirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 10:30 PM
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26. we have our good share in Ohio
W 04 bumpberstickers are a dead give away
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 10:31 PM
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27. I think I live in it.
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sadinred Donating Member (529 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 10:39 PM
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28. Well, if you define Freeper as mindless robot sheep
who doesn't think for him/herself (its self?) and drives a huge gas guzzler with Freeper bumperstickers on them, then I've seen them in Ct (don't forget the Grand Wizard- or whatever he is- of the KKK is in Ct) and I've seen them in Pa and in Ma. I've also seen them in Fl and Ga and SC.

I just refuse to admit that I live in the most Freeper-like state. I'm clinging to sanity by a thread here, please don't take it away from me!!!
:evilfrown:
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 10:43 PM
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30. Idaho
former home of Aryan Nations, whitest state in the union.
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faithfull Donating Member (154 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 10:51 PM
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31. Kentucky flat out doesn't exist
Edited on Wed Dec-15-04 10:52 PM by faithfull
I've looked, Im from Tennessee, and Ive been to 45 states, and one of the missing 5 is "supposedly" :tinfoilhat: right next to Tennessee - KENTUCKY!!!

You never see lisence plates from there, you never hear of anything happening there (except that horse race which is actually in romania) you dont know of anybody there. It doesnt exist!

Maybe our states are counted by Diebold...cause i keep getting just 49! (and puerto rico)

:donut:
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bettyellen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 11:14 PM
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33. was it alabam or miss that just voted to keep segregation laws on the book
wherever it was, it gets my vote!
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MissBrooks Donating Member (614 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 11:25 PM
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35. UTAH!
That's got to be the worst.
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rhino47 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 11:48 PM
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37. the T of pa
The middle section of Pennsylvania is freepland paradise.
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 10:29 AM
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38. Catotonic And Drooling
That pretty much sums up the Freeper "mentality".


Source: http://www.fm99.com/
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Goathead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 05:05 PM
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44. No way!
I used to listen to FM 99 back in Virginia, are you from Hampton Roads? Damn I hope those people aren't from my hometown that would be truly embarrassing.
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 10:38 PM
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47. I'm Originally From New Jersey
I found the "moran" picture on the FM 99 web site.

BTWm I used to go on vacation on the Eastern Shore of Virginia - mainly the Cherrystone Bayshore campground outside Cape Charles, Silver Beach near Exmore, and Tom's Cove in Chincoteague.
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 10:44 AM
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39. Utah!
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DebinTx Donating Member (389 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 10:46 AM
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41. Texas - every wingnut totes a gun.
And churches galore!
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 10:49 AM
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43. But Utah is run by a religious cult
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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 10:59 PM
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49. one person's cult is another person's church
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 05:07 PM
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45. For me it was Arizona
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mak3cats Donating Member (489 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 05:28 PM
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46. Denial... (eom)
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Sgent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 10:51 PM
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48. Oh this is easy
Home to the American Family Association & America Family Radio
Home to Focus on The Family
Home to where 30% blacks support the confederate battleflag on their state flag.
Home to Haley Barbor, Trent Lott, and Ross Barrnett
Home to Antebellum homes and civil war battlefields, where peope still go to lay wreaths on a regular basis.
Home to the state that does not recongize Martin Luther King's birthday -- but does recongize Robert E. Lee's.

This is of course, my home State of Mississippi.

I will give Alabama close seconds, but they have a much better school ssytem, B'ham, Huntsville, and the coast.

I will also give Indiana props for being the most overtly racist state I have ever been in (while I lived there).
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