Posted on 10/20/2022 5:32:06 AM PDT by MtnClimber
I spent the past week in Wisconsin and have seldom had the opportunity to see more vividly the red/blue divide in America. The urban areas are predominantly hard left while the rural areas are defiantly conservative.
My trip began in a suburb of Madison, Wisconsin.
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Out on the streets, many cars had Biden-Harris” bumper stickers still clinging to them. One car I managed to photograph even had a car version of the leftists’ beloved “in this house we believe” yard sign, ending with “kindness is everything.” Somehow that seemed at odds with the sticker showing the Marxist raised fist over an image of Africa. Cognitive dissonance never seems to bother the left.
At a local coffee shop, the barista was a very skinny man clocking in at about 6’4”. He had straggly, shoulder-length hair, and a mask, and spoke in a cracked, reedy voice. He was pleasant and helpful. A bit of an odd bird, I thought. It surprised me, although it probably shouldn’t have, to learn a short time later that this manifest man goes by “she/her” pronouns.
Things were different the moment my trip took me out of the big city. There were billboards everywhere with two themes: Jesus saves you and abortion is evil. Houses and businesses were festooned with American flags. Gun stores showed up in every small town. People had trucks and other sturdy cars, many with Trump bumper stickers.
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Many people in big cities are among the least capable of taking care of themselves. If there are food shortages, then these people will be in deep trouble.
The dweeb that wrote this screed needs to get out more.
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Think it would be safe to say that 47 states out of 50 are exactly this. The cities dominated the statewide offices and run the table on federal elections.
And what I find really interesting is how many people still have their heads in the sand about this reality not turning Georgia. Sure Georgia will maintain a Republican legislature forever, probably, but there are about 11 or 12 counties, Blue Counties, that have growing populations. Soon they just might be able to run the table on statewide offices.
” If there are food shortages, then these people will be in deep trouble.”
Therein lies the solution to the large red city problem.
Starve them.
But, a lot of them are moving out of the cities, into the small towns and outlying suburbs because they’re too afraid to live in the cesspools they helped create.
Imagine the rump blue Oregon/Portland without the red counties to use the way a parasite uses a host. If it works in Oregon, it will sweep the nation.
Hell, West Virginia didn't even switch states, they made themselves a whole new state because they did not want to be controlled by Richmond.
I get SC political ads on youtube. Rat face, Trump backstabber Nancy Mace (SC,1) runs a lot ads.
I live here. This is an apt description of what we rural Deplorables are up against, versus the rabid Socialists that populate our urban areas.
It’s really no different than MN, MI, IL...any Midwest/Flyover state you care to name.
However - I guarantee that Wisconsin will re-elect Senator Ron Johnson and our new Governor will be Tim Michels (R, WI). :)
Why is that?
What say Idaho?
States need electoral colleges, too.
The big cities determine virtually all statewide offices. Rural folk have no voice.
Wisconsin is a particularly good candidate to flip and make a reliable red state. Milwaukee simply isn’t that big. Its a much more rural and small town dominated state than Michigan or Pennsylvania.
Once Michels is elected governor, Wisconsin can pass some real election integrity laws with teeth to prevent a repeat of 2020 ever happening again. The Republicans control both houses of the Wisconsin legislature.
The same goes for Michigan and Pennsylvania. Both are just a governor away from real election integrity laws. Of the two, I think Tudor Dixon has a better shot to get elected than Doug Mastriano since she’s running against Gestapo Gretchen who is quite unpopular.
It’s been pointed out that red states have the higher murder rates, but every state has at least a few blue cities where violent crime rates are 3 to 4 times higher than in the red rural areas (which even deep blue states have).
Apparently, how to run it into the ground as Tulsa is rife with pot addicts living in the streets, vagrants begging on every corner, fags/drag queens marching, etc.
Ditto Oklahoma City. And our low cost of housing is attracting trash from kalifornia. Yep. It's inevitable.
I was listening to a radio show when the host talked about he and his wife took a trip out of Houston to a small town north of there. He was amazed. No masking, very clean and very friendly. He had been in Houston for so long, he didn’t know what the rest of Texas was like. In my county, we have zero democrats in any position of power.
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Indiana is the same. If you don’t live in Indianapolis, Bloomington, or Lafayette (where the universities are), it’s pretty red, though I would say some pockets of purple the closer to the blue cities you are. When the mask mandates started, there were a lot of farming communities that said to hell with that. It was very pleasant to be around folks that “disobeyed” the orders.
That’s the exact solution for the state problem. And it needs to carry over to national elections by awarding one vote per county or other legal entity as far as the state’s electoral votes are assigned. Gives less dense population areas a say, too. It’s only fair! And so on...
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