What?? 
Y’all are cordially invited to Tennessee – which I think would be idea for a first run.
The state is divided into three sections by the Tennessee River.
West Tennessee is already blue. No need to settle there.
Middle Tennessee is a mixture. Nashville is a fun place to live. There is lots of diversity, the state capital is here (and desperately needs reforming), yet Nashville , in general is liberal. We supported Obama both times. There are lots of caves and woods nearby for those who are so inclined. The concerts offer so much of a variety of entertainment that everyone has plenty to relax to. Vanderbilt is one of the great training centers for progressive education. And counties which aren’t as progressive are nearby.
East Tennessee is most in need of help – and yet they have some of the prettiest places to live. Lots of hills and mountains with snow when you want to ski. (That may be changing a little with the climate becoming warmer.) Chattanooga is beautiful and great for history buffs. But East Tennessee seems to go red every time. There is good SEC football at UT in Knoxville The dunes of the Outer Banks in N.C. aren’t out of reach and Ashville N.C., a haven for artists and writers, is over the mountains (all for entertainment purposes). But there are plenty of intelligent people ready for conversion. We can start with U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander and U.S. Senator Bob Corker and the Governor of the state. All are conservatives. Some are intelligent. Any could be replaced with former Governor Phil Bredesen or Harold Ford for starters.
Y’all come!
Bet a Disneybuck, if I had one, that none of your family has ever caught you out on any of those lies with a basic, easy, 10-seconds-of-Googling fact-check. 'Cause, the RW can’t be beholden to fact-checkers.
I have long believed that District of Columbia residents should be able to vote in their last state of residence. Any native DC residents should be able to “declare” a home state and vote in that states federal elections.
I have spent time in Tennessee, it is indeed a beautiful place. It has more people than Mississippi, and does not NEED progressivising as much as Mississippi, but I guess there is a balance.
Obviously not. Do you think people who believe Obama is the antichrist who isn’t a US citizen, that death panels exist in the health reform bill, etc. care about facts or fact checking?
There is a book called ‘the republican brain’ which describes how conservatives are more likely to use logic and reason to justify an opinion they have an emotional investment in whereas liberals more deny the interplay between emotions and logic and think of them as separate (which they aren’t). They aren’t going to change their opinions because of fact checkers.
Its fun to use their debate tactics against them. Damn fun.
Not in the least. You drive twenty minutes inland you might as well be in Alabama.
President Obama and the Democratic Party have a base of liberal voters. They know they pay attention to the demands of these voters if they wish to keep being elected. If the Democrats continuously support the War on Drugs, it’s probably because liberals want them to do so. The idea that Democrats continuously support the War on Drugs because conservatives want them to do so makes no sense.
I don’t blame the war on drugs on conservatives, I blame it on all of the people that make billions on the war on drugs and incarcerating people for non-violent drug offenses, systematic racism, and the corrupt lobbying system. “Conservative voters” probably don’t even make it into the top 10 reasons why the stupid war on drugs continues to this day (but thankfully less so in my state of Washington).
I won’t even entertain your chain of “reasoning” about how Obama is at the beck and call of liberals, it is laughable considering how much the guy fantasizes about Reagan and is by all reasonable metrics an oldschool moderate Republican.
edit: Also please explain to me how Republicans also don’t keep the war on drugs going. You can’t play a 90’s arcade game without Nancy Reagan reminding you that winners don’t use drugs. None of the politicos except crazy ass Rand Paul really advocate the end of the war on drugs, because the war on drugs is big business.
There’s another option that’s been excluded, which is that the Obama administration continues the War on Drugs to appeal to moderates, who might vote Republican if the Democrats were to make radical drug-policy shifts, in numbers far greater than the number of voters they’d gain by such a shift.
First I don’t support any gun rights whatsoever, now I support the war on drugs. It’s amazing what you learn about your views from reading this message board!
Now now… Sacramento is a nice little bastion of fairly sensible political thought in the midst of the Agribusiness red.
I have long said that California is a largely red state, with a strip of blue on the coast, and Sacraemnto, the Bay, and LA to add color.
And for what it’s worth, starting with a state as fundamentally broken as California is is probably a terrible idea. IJS.
Interesting idea. I doubt any state would go for that though.
I wonder if there’s a bizarro thread on some RW board saying that conservatives should take over New York or Massachusetts and fix them too.
I dunno, but every now and then Libertarians float the idea of taking over some low-population state by immigration. They don’t seem to realize there are too few of them to do it.
BTW, as soon as Progressiveland was achieved the republicans would just gerrymander everything to eliminate any benefits anyways. Much easier to just try to eliminate the electoral college.
Lefties are pathetic weaklings who play by Republican rules happily.
Well then, we’ll just have to all move in at an exactly equal density so they can’t! Put a new progressive in every 100 square yards or so, all across the chosen state.
I bet every blue state would be OK with the idea. I can just imagine all the DC natives getting together and deciding that their state of residence for voting pruposes is Florida.
North Carolina sounds good, and its kind of on the line politically, so a big influx of progressives could change the voting map signficantly. I just don’t know if North Carolina needs help the way Mississippi does.
As Rogerbox points out, Obama is basically a Reagan Republican, he has no interest in his Democratic base at all, just uses them as needed and mocks them in private.