On 4/13/2010 8:20 AM, Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>>>> And that guy from Terminator is the governor of Florida.
>>>
>>> California.
>>
>> OK, well I knew it was one or other of the crazy states. ;-)
>
> Generally speaking, Florida isn't really considered one of the crazy
> ones. California and Massachusetts are the crazy ones.
>
Depends on your definition of crazy. A **lot** of the south still has 
the "I wear a confederate flag on my shirt to show that I like states 
rights, but I ain't no racist.", then you look at the two issues that 
where "state rights", and they where a) right to own slaves, and b) 
right to tell the fed to kiss their ass and break from the union, if 
they where not allowed to have (a). Its also common practice, even in 
Florida, to hear a lot of veiled racist comments from the locals, and 
find history books claiming that "economics" was the prime issue in the 
civil war, while glossing over the fact that the "economic issues" of 
the time where paying people to do work, a fear that losing slavery 
would devastate the south, and incomprehension as to how all that cotton 
was gonna get picked, without unpaid workers to do it for them. One of 
the favorite quotes is even, often, "Both blacks and whites benefited 
from the situation."

A large segment of the Tea-bagger movement is using rhetoric, and signs, 
and statements, that more than a few people who remember desegregation 
have commented sound damn familiar, and more than a few that, while 
claiming otherwise, are very similar to statements being made by 
secessionists *prior* to the civil war. Heck, some are even slipping up 
and stating the propaganda from the period, then backpedaling in false, 
but politically expedient, embarrassment. Nope, pretty much the whole 
south, including Florida, is full of some serious kooks, and from what 
one person said, who grew up there, even the liberals tend to believe 
the revisionist BS about the whole civil war thing not being at all 
about slaves or racism. California, by comparison, if not for a few 
religious kooks of their own, would make a good European nation (though, 
more so 30-40 years ago, before they let some of those kooks close down 
nude beaches, and other de-liberalizations).

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