Wisconsin and New York? That helps explain your socialist leanings.
I lived the last 10 years in Woodstock Georgia...we don’t even have Democrats running in most elections. We moved to Wisconsin-job transfer- in August 2007. I worked on Saxby Chambliss’s campaign in fact.
As for socialism, I think the loss of manufacturing jobs will usher in socialism...health care, unemployment etc. I don’t want that. However, we risk losing our battle with the Dems over socialism by supporting free trade policies-short term profits are not always really profits.