Reply #103: Ahem, please read what I wrote... [View All]

[JackRiddler]

Basically, I'm sick of hearing this cater-to-the-South-therefore be conservative idea. Please read what I wrote and you will see I'm not saying the South is very conservative, but that your argument is based in the idea that it is and that the rest of the country must cater to that, if we are to have a Democratic president.

Actually, I write, "this IMAGE of a conservative, hyper-Christian South," meaning I don't believe it myself! In effect, I am saying YOU are implying this image (whether intentionally or not).

IN your correction, you tell me the South ain't conservative or Christian or such, but very military oriented. Okay, so be it. I don't like that (the military orientation, not the South per se). Nor do I buy that this is and will forever be the South. The South is also Atlanta...

Anyway, why doesn't Gore count as "South"? He lost all of it, but he won the most important state in the South: FLORIDA, which was then stolen from him.

My real point is: let's forget this regional stuff. Our society is made up of strata or groups more than of regions. Different regions have different mixes of groups, but I want a candidate who deals with the groups themselves (the real politics to me) and not the often superficial differences between regions.

Otherwise, yeah, it galls me and I don't mind saying it. Northeast/Midwest (still many more electoral votes than South) gets dismissed as irrelevant since those suckers will mostly go Democrat anyway, it's "South" (or the conservative image thereof) that we must cater to.

Sorry, I'm running on...