i live in Edina

[minnesotaDFLer]

and am a member of Edina High School, i dont think this towns hopeless anymore. When i walked into my government class at the beginning of the year, i was surprised to find out my grade has a majority of Dems. Also, the town went for Kerry this year. Who knows, maybe the tide has started to change in this town. Although, with the amount of money thats put into my school, it doesnt look like it.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Change starts with people like you.

Welcome to DU!

[minnesotaDFLer]

3. yes

my town hadn't gone liberal in an election for over a hundred years, we're considered the most conservative town in the state. It was huge when we found out the city had turned.

[blogbear]

2. Welcome to DU..Hope it stays Democratic there!

[petron]

4. I hear ya

First of all, welcome to DU!

I lived in Edina for many years of my life, went to Creek Valley elementary, Valley View and OLG. And now I live in Richfield, unfortunately. :)

My issue with you what you are saying is that there are still too many parents/adults who are disengaged with politics and reality.

Glad to hear the kids are on the right path but...

...How do we get more adults involved?

[minnesotaDFLer]

6. i go to valley view

although i am technically a high schooler, im still in the building. But yeah my theory about it is that all the old republicans are dying off and the new families are moving in from the city. Thats the only explanation i can come up with. Otherwise the towns still pretty bad. a house down the street from me had over 30 bush signs, my freinds had to take them down :), of cource after they stole all of ours.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. The title of "most conservative town" has probably been superseded by

Eagan or Woodbury. :-)

But anyway, welcome to DU from a resident of nearby SW Minneapolis who can walk to Edina. :hi:

[minnesotaDFLer]

8. whats happening there is sad

with the school closings and all, a lot of minneapolis students have come to edina, it's nice to talk to some people a little more like me.

[Spike from MN]

16. I live near Woodbury

and I see a lot of anti-Dubya stickers on the cars when I venture over to that part of town. I've even seen them at the relatively upscale Kowalski's. You'll see a few pro-Dubya stickers, sure, but the anti-Dubya, Wellstone, etc. stickers outnumber them from what I have seen. And that's not even counting the 7 I have on my car. ;)

[CatholicEdHead]

18. How about Eden Prairie?

Or Minnetonka? I would guess it would be more in the southwest metro in deep suburbia.

[SupormomFreeAtLast]

22. Don't forget Plymouth.

I have seen encouraging signs from the younger generation, though. It was my turn to drive after dance class last week. I had a carload of 11 and 12 year olds singing "Minority" and "American Idiot" by Green Day. I asked them what their parents thought of the music. They replied, "Who cares? Our parents aren't cool."

[MinneapolisMatt]

7. Welcome to DU!

Welcome to DU from Uptown!

-Matt :)

[awoke_in_2003]

9. I saw the opposite..

I have recently returned to college, and took government last semester. I am suprised at how Neo-connish the youngsters have become (maybe it is just because I'm in Texas). For example, we were going over the Roe v Wade decision and the right to privacy, and our professor asked how many of us agreed with the decision. Out of a class of 34, with half being women, only two people agreed with it (me and another older guy). Also, the pre-class chatter that goes on, always talking up the president. Just seems like they question nothing anymore.

[Qanisqineq]

10. I've noticed a lot of the teens are now very neocon-ish, too

My youngest sister is a junior in high school and says there are maybe two other people in her class that are pro-choice and she is the only one pro-gay marriage. When I was in high school, almost everyone I knew in my entire class was very liberal (gay marriage wasn't even on the radar then), even if their parents were not or even if the teens themselves were pretty religious.

And don't even get me started on my middle sister... former liberal turned RW Christian fundie.

[minnesotaDFLer]

11. who knows

a few weeks ago we had our own little congress. Where we introduced bills etc. Mine was to ban guns. I got it passed unanimouly. However, there are still a lot of neo-conservatives. We had a repub speaker come in a while back. He gave us documents talking about Judeo-Christian values. He said he would never send his kids to minneapolis schools. And that gays were overstepping their political clout. He was ridiculous.

[awoke_in_2003]

14. I have to admit

that when I was in high school, Ronald Reagan was in office, and being young and dumb I really liked him (although I didn't worship him the way they worship dubya). For most of my voting life, I sided with the repub party, mainly because of true conservative beliefs, ie smaller government, fiscal responsibility. During the 90's, I liked Clinton and thought he did a good job. I didn't like the way the repubs handled him, but laid most of that on Newt. But, as my login implies, I woke up around 2003. I think I was one of the few people I know that questioned the lead up and eventual invasion of Iraq. I found this site one day, and through it other progressive sites, and that lead to the discovery that in most things I agree with the liberals. If there is any hope for our youth, it will be through sites like this and the rest of the alternative media on the "internets", because the liberal media died years ago.

[Qanisqineq]

15. By the way... Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[CatholicEdHead]

17. Teens can flip as they grow up

they are often just parroting the MSM right now. It is all about what is "cool" and the GOP has tried hard to market themselves as "cool".

[fudge stripe cookays]

29. This is true.

If I had voted before I knew what was REALLY going on (mid-80s-- Reagan era), I would have voted the way my parents did, for no other reason than that's what I parroted.

But I never cared enough to vote. Until I had an abortion at 28 and read pamphlets about the way my rights wre being taken away by religious wingnuts. I woke up then and began voting Democratic.

The last two elections made me even more activist. Someday these kids could surprise us. But you never know.

FSC

[fudge stripe cookays]

28. Geez.

Now that scares the living crap out of me.

Looks like those kids need to see some pictures of Geri Santoro to show them what we have to look forward to.

http://www.womenonwaves.org/popup.php?id=1020.42&label=FIG01

When are these people going to realize that no one WANTS to have an abortion? That it's a choice that desperate women make because they have no alternative for their individual circumstances?

No, better to point fingers and ensure that innocent women die for nothing other than unwise choices.

[BlueJazz]

12. When I lived in Minnesota (Rosemount) I had a few Friends in ...

.Edina. Loved them..Loved Edina BUT ..HATED the screwed up lights on France Avenue. (Christ..who programmed those damn things..Bozo the clown??) :)

[minnesotaDFLer]

13. i used to live

right off of france, on sunnyside. Across the street from convention grill and brueggers. Man, i miss living there. Now i live near interlachen. DAMN theres one other liberal family within my neighborhood. Ridiculous.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

20. I saw lots of Kerry signs in the Sunnyside area last fall

They outnumbered the Bush signs by quite a bit.

Wait a minute...you lived at the France 44 Liqour Store? ;-)

(Love the malts at the Convention Grill, though I can't indulge in them too often.) :-)

[MnFishhead]

19. Another example of librul teachers' indoctrination

When i walked into my government class at the beginning of the year, i was surprised to find out my grade has a majority of Dems.


Michele Bachmann will be taking a close look at your school, since it's clearly been overtaken by libruls and commies. Perhaps yopu have an anecdote to share with her?

[MnFats]

21. i recently went to a 'town meeting' with sen. Geoff Michel..

...the edina republican, and Neil Peterson the state rep who has half that district. Peterson is from Bloomington.

there was a smattering of applause when somebody in the audience urged them to go along with gov. pawlenty's no tax hike obsession.

then a woman said she'd rather see her taxes go up than see 22,000 minnesota children thrown off state funding for health insurance, the place went nuts. Long, extended applause.

things change. Michel and Peterson at times seemed genuinly stunned by some of the crowd's reaction to their assertions.

interesting stuff..

[blogspotdog]

23. I live in Edina, too

Please check out my blog on Edina - state politics:

www.retiregeoffmichel.blogspot.com/

Tips and comments always welcome.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

24. Nice article on vouchers, blogspotdog, and

welcome to DU!

:hi:

Hope to see you at one of our local gatherings some day. We're the epitome of Minnesota Nice, if I do say so myself.

No, really.

I moved back here from Oregon in 2003, and the Minnesota DUers were very welcoming.

[blogspotdog]

25. DFL events . . .

Maybe Spotty's owner, or at least his alter ego, has shown up some places and you didn't notice.

Anyway, Spot tries to include a mix of posts that are, he hopes, interesting to a broader Minnesota audience. Dive in a little deeper and see posts about conceal and carry, academic freedom, tax incidence and state income, the gas tax, Norm Coleman's encounter with a very annoyed Scot, and Spotty's personal favorite, a Letter to a Young Conservative, a post about gay rights.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

26. The DU gatherings are not official DFL events,

although I've been to some of those, too. :-)

The DU gatherings are just a bunch of us sitting around, making nasty remarks about Normie and Timmy and their ilk, and brainstorming about how to save the world.

[newyawker99]

27. Hi blogspotdog!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: