Also what's your date of birth and mother's maiden name?
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And the name of my first pet and my elementary school for good measure.
Spot, and Jefferson Davis Elementary. Only limits that to half hr country, though I kid of course.
April 1st, 1969. Crapper. Why do you ask?
Hey everyone, make sure you aren't doxxing yourself. Comments in the Fediverse can be very hard to delete.
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Texas.
It's okay. I don't blame people for hating our legislature, just try to remember that not all Texans are shitty people.
Howdy neighbour. The same goes for me and many people I know in the Bayou State. The legislature especially recently makes me want to barf.
A suburb north of Denver.
You are going to find a metric fuck-ton of political diversity in Colorado. While it somewhat follows a fairly standard pattern of cities being blue and the countryside being red, it gets much more complicated than that here. (The elevation and mass quantities of craft beer does strange things to a human after a time.)
Yeah, Colorado (along with the New England states) is one of few places in the US where rural does not necessarily mean red.
San Antonio, Texas. Disparage away. Any chance of change happening is incredibly slim. My city only had about 14.81% turnout during our last primary election.
This is by design. Voter fatigue is very real.
That's depressing. Cheers.
In a house.
Switzerland
So it's true. The USA has colonized the rest of the planet. Howdy neighbor!
DFW area of Texas. There's a lot that's good here, but the number of people who combine various levels of being small-minded and short-sighted are indeed very frustrating.
And they all have cars that contribute to our THUNDERDOME traffic situation these days. I legit don’t even like driving anywhere in the metroplex these days out of safety concerns.
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I'm in rural PA.
Pennsylvania is a weird state because we have half the population in cities, Philly and Pittsburgh are the big ones, but we've got quite a few smaller cities peppered throughout. The other half live in the middle of nowhere, Amish country and farmers for miles.
The rural is deep red. I can see a Confederate flag from my porch. We can't even claim that as "our heritage" or whatever bullshit the South says to justify it.
Feel free to disparage my area, it's pretty disgusting.
Oh, man. My condolences.
But, seriously: rural PA can be gorgeous. The issue is, as you said: the politics. When we first moved there, a new friend told me: "Pennsylvania is Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Alabama in between."
Another replier to your comment said they lived outside Allentown - I don't consider that "rural" PA. The suburbs in PA are vast, and while it can look rural, you don't know PA rural until you drive to somewhere like New Berlin: through coal country. I knew people who'd grown up within 3 miles of where their grandmother grew up, lived there their entire lives, and never ventured more than a few dozen miles from the Mainline. Never visited Gettysburg, a mere 4-hour drive.
And you're so right! The Mason-Dixon line is the Southern border of PA, and yet Confederate flags abound. That, and Trump signs; they just never take those down, campaign year or not.
We moved to Minnesota from PA (answering OP's question) and I was surprised at the political similarities. Around The Cities it's fairly liberal, and even through the few-hour drive to Deluth. But once you get off the main commuter thoroughfare, those Trump signs start appearing everywhere. Iron ore is to MN what is coal to PA, and mining is mining. Although, the property around the big Northern lakes is all lake-homes owned by urban families who can't afford lake homes around The Cities, so there are pockets of Blue out there. Anyway, I found the similarities to be surreal. The biggest difference is that the PA coal country is far poorer than MN iron country.
But I'll repeat: the countryside in PA is amazing, especially in the Poconos, but also in the farmland. Just beautiful.
No argument from me on the beauty of the countryside. I had moved to Cleveland for a few years, and came back to hillbilly Town because it was worth having a crick for my kids to play in. That's not a typo, my PA folks get it.
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I'm in, and from, Florida. Am over 50 so have seen the devolution of the political situation as we get more populated. But am in a very diverse city with a large queer community, and I think that's what people get wrong about Florida, we have ever been diverse, not like up north where it's more stratified. Everyone here, at least in the more populated areas, most neighborhoods are mixed on just about any axis you can spin us on. Like my street has old people, families, black, white, Asian, Muslim, Catholic, protestant, atheist, conservative, progressive, gay, straight, trans, able bodied and disabled.
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A couple hours north of you in the central valley. Hi neighbour.
Hat tip.
Methdesto, CA
Oakland makes this city look like Carmel by the Sea. 🤣
Bruh I'm in Hemet, CA. All desert and tumbleweeds but hey at least I can afford to live here
new mexico!
Santa Cruz, CA. Hi neighbor!
One of my favorite small cities. Would live there if I could, but it's unfortunately too expensive.
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Hat tip.
Washington State
Currently in Oakland too! Wish more bay area folk would find their way here so I can stop relying on the subreddit🙃
Oregon here.
Have a lot of friends in the bay area and have visited Oakland a few times. Lovely place. Fuck the haters!
San Diego, carne asada fries in hand, ready to put on my thickest winter coat when it hits sub 60 degree temps.
Man, the closest I ever give to my location is in the south, in the Appalachians. Nobody needs to know more than that online, and fuck anyone that doesn't like it lol.
Every state here has dumb shit going on all the time. Political stupidity, economic stupidity, environmental stupidity, you name it, there's something stupid going on in any given subject matter in most states. You find one that's great at one thing, they'll be horrible in another. Mind you, I'm talking the people; the land itself is incapable of stupidity, what with being mostly dirt and plants.
Anyway. If you're worried about disparaging people in a given state, just do what I do (and just did). Blame the idiots in California for a given issue, but don't specify who you think the idiots are. Nobody objects to those other people that are idiots being disparaged. Why would they? Those other people are morons.
That's not even a joke. I mean, it's meant to be vaguely humorous, but it's legit.
I live in Urbana, Illinois. In couple of days. I'll be going on a mission to Moon to help the USAA with the set up of one their bases, Clavius Base.
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Hampton Roads area of Virginia.
Jersey. The best state.
Hahahahaha! I'll buy you a drink. This was most unexpected Jersey pride.
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Seattle
Within driving distance of a former presidential candidate's childhood home (hopefully he doesn't ask for money again), in the great state that still won't apologize for its cheese.
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