And, hey, you can start a Prius without that telltale engine-revving-up sound… so easy to get the jump on 'em.
Well in that case the lens in the camera would break. 
I have never met a conservative from Georgia. Everyone I’ve ever met from Georgia has been either liberal or very liberal. If all the liberals from Georgia were to actually stay in Georgia, it would easily be a swing state.
[/heartfelt assertion with absolutely no data to back it up]
Seriously, people, your Obama vote does nothing here in California. If you’d have stayed in Georgia/Tennessee/Louisiana/Missouri/Texas you, together with the rest of your diaspora, might make a difference!
As a liberal native Texan, I gotta disagree with you. I think that most Texans stay in Texas, if we have a choice in the matter. Even those few of us who are liberal.
Oh, I know plenty of Texans here in California. Maybe not enough of them to make Texas a swing state were they to return, but there are lots of them out here.
Also a dataless assertion on my part, but it seems like the “move to California” thing was largely a boomer phenomenon and the younger generations are moving into the rapidly-growing liberal enclaves instead. So some free spirit coming of age in the middle of nowhere Texas might have packed out to the coast in the 60’s or 70’s, but would be a lot more likely to move to Austin in this day and age.
I doubt they would have actually pissed on your car but it was still a righteous verbal beat down you gave them.
We’re getting smarter??!! No Way!
Getting rid of lead pipes and lead paint probably helped quite a bit, i.e. fewer things that were making some of us dumb.
Alright, let me play devil’s advocate here, just to bring some balance. . . . . .Nah, can’t do it even with my “Bush-wasn’t-all-that-bad” hat on. Nice testicular display AtomicDog.
I’m sure there are other factors at play, but my experience with Georgia was just the opposite in the mid-90s in the Savannah area.
On my way home from work on Friday, I saw my first “VOTE YES FOR MARRIAGE*” sticker on the bumper of a car. I had my caveman instincts punch through my rational dam trying to hold them in. I wanted nothing more than to do that P.I.T. manoueuver and have their car go spinning off the highway. I refrained and as I started to pass the car on the left, I looked at the driver out of curiousity of not just who would have those feelings about marriage but want to advertise them on the back of their car. My eyes squinted as I took all of her features in and I sat there wanted to judge the everloving crap out of this bigot. That somehow this would make me feel more superior than she.
I clenched the wheel a little tighter and turned up my radio. I forced myself to take solace in the fact that even if she gets a small battle victory, her side won’t win the war.
That all said, it’s hard to NOT get angry to see a person advertising against a belief system that you abhor for one reason or another. So that’s why my car, a Prius incidentally, is sticker free.
*voting yes in Minnesota means you are for amending the constitution to define marriage solely between a man and a woman.
I’m not sure anyone expects that.
To the OP–Dude, come on, you live in the Deep South. Just because you probably don’t hang around some of worse racists in your area doesn’t mean they aren’t there. Also, the white racists you deal with regularly probably know to not say that stuff when you are around.
I tell you right now, these attitudes are as common in the Deep South as red clay. I am a white liberal man from the rural South, but I can easily pass for a regular good ol’ boy because of my accent/mannerisms/etc., and many redneck racists don’t realize they are sickening me when they make these kinds of comments, or worse kinds of comments.
If you’re 58, you remember segregation, though, right? Do you really think all the white people who grew up with it have changed their inner attitudes about race? No, believe me, most haven’t. They just keep their mouths shut about it more.
I saw a lot of knee jerk Bush hate, but nothing on the level I see for Obama. My wife has a coworker that she dreads conferring with because every conversation eventually devolves into another Obama rant. The company lowers per diem pay? That damn Obama. Price of gas goes up? Obama and his cronies again. I swear, Obama is probably the reason her lawn is wilting from the drought. The woman is from Mississippi, but she sounds like plenty of snowbirds from the north I’ve heard.
Or they’ll move to another Texas city. Most of which are more Democratic than the more suburban & rural parts of the state. Many subscribe to the Texas Observer–always remembering “What Would Molly Do?” And support the Texas Freedom Network.
Time is on our side–in the long run. In the meantime, even the Republicans are getting tired of Governor Rick…
Did you check your trunk? Marty McFly might just be in there.
Someone where I work has the Marriage=One Man + One Woman sticker. I hoped I would never notice who drove that car, but it’s a small place and eventually I did. She’s a “sweet” lady, probably in her fifties, never been anything but nice to me, but every time I look at her I think, You are pure evil.
My daughter had an Obama sticker on her car for a while, but my husband and her grandmother both asked her to remove it. They were afraid that her car would be vandalized.
My bumper sticker moment was at the gas station this weekend. A middle-aged guy in decent casual clothes was filling up his pick-up truck at the pump in front me. His truck sported one bumper sticker, which read “Seriously, everyone, I am a complete shithead.”
No, no, wait- I remembered it wrong, sorry. Actually, it said “Don’t blame me, I voted for an American.” Not sure how I got the two confused.
Our main weapon is fear, fear and surprise . . .
our two main weapons are fear and surprise . . .
My former downstairs neighbor had a bumper stick that said “I support the flag – AND I VOTE.”
Every time I passed his car I was tempted to say “Ooh, I’m so scared!”