Reply #6: Well, I'm going to go out on a limb here [View All]

[Bouncy Ball]

and take a big chance with saying this, but, um, I think you'd LIKE the liberals in my neck of the woods. It's all I could think of as I was reading that piece.

NOT that northeastern liberals are bad or wrong or anything like that! I'm NOT saying that, just so everyone is clear. I don't want to get into a regionalistic pissing contest.

But I think there must be some difference when you are liberal where you are treated like shit every day for being liberal. Where you have inadvertently learned to whisper and speak in codes to identify each other. Where just attending a protest is an exhilarating, life-altering exercise in free speech and not another ho-hum any day of the week protest.

Dunno. But it seems to make a difference. Not that I like living under these conditions, and I certainly don't want to romanticize anything. But it seems to change the landscape ever so much.