I went out today for a nice country drive, to look at autumn leaves, and it seemed that every single farmhouse had a big old Trump/Pence sign in the front yard.
:eek:
Otherwise, around here I’m seeing more Gary Johnson signs than anything else put together. :dubious:
“You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.”
Mr. Farmer may have a Trump sign on the barn, but when Mrs. Farmer goes into the voting booth, she’ll be pulling the lever for Clinton, I bet.
I also posted this on Facebook, and one of my FBFs, a dyed-in-the-wool Republican who is also a never-married, moderate income single mom who lives in a rural area, replied, “The dems have RUINED agriculture.”
California is a solid blue state, of course, but if you drive through the Central Valley from L.A. to S.F. you go through hundreds of miles of farmland. This is very Republican territory, and there are signs for Trump all over. From what I gather from my recent drive through there, the big issue is that farmers are convinced that Dems stole their water and gave it to the cities.
Did this Monday. They replaced all the “Nancy Pelosi is responsible for the water crisis” signs with Trump signs.
My sister is a Rabid Republican. When the “Grab 'em by the p***y” tape was exposed I asked how she would explain to her daughters and granddaughters that she voted for Trump. She laughed and said that her daughters and granddaughters intended to vote for Trump. All of them are college grads, well educated and intelligent human beings. I can only hope she was yanking my chain; if she was telling the truth then all is lost and civilization as we know it is doomed. I’m in despair.
This is not really a debate or discussion.
Off to The BBQ Pit.
Yep.
The Guardian had a fascinating story the other day about support for Trump in Bakersfield.
Of course, none of this is a surprise, really, to anyone who pays any attention at all to California politics. People who have no clue about California love to portray the state as nothing but a haven for weed-smoking Haight-Ashbury hippies and chardonnay-sipping tech and entertainment industry liberals, but there has always been a strong streak of conservatism in the state, and that conservative tendency tends to get stronger as you head inland from the Pacific Ocean.
Well, you know, Obama’s plot to supply tattooed urban radical lesbians with free farms.
“Take an organic carrot up the ass, Penis-Bearing Tool of the Ruling Patriarchy!”
If California is ever divided into five states, I hope it is done in bands from east to west. A very narrow band paralleling the coast, and another, slightly wider band to the east of that, etc. Each band running the whole north-south height of the state. The easternmost would be the thickest, because it has the lowest population density.
(I’m happy to live in the westernmost band…)
Seems a bit over dramatic just because people don’t think like you.
Oh. So, maybe we don’t call the suicide hotline in Florida? Could be somewhat exaggerated? Good catch, octo!
Wouldn’t help anyway… the lines are always jammed.
Recent Cracked article about the rural/ urban divide.