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user-inactivated  ·  2921 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Total Destruction: The Democratic Party Has Gone Extinct In Working Class Appalachia

    Know what? I want your side to start winning elections, too. But you're not going to. You're stupid fucking rednecks. Sure - not all of you. But enough of you. And you know what? Every time we try and help out the rest of you ungrateful little shits? We're not helpful enough. "What's the matter with Kansas?" It's a fucking shithole full of ignorant rednecks that want to go back to the barefoot, pregnant and syphilis days, duh. And that's why everyone with half a fucking clue moves away, and that's why your population is collapsing, and that's why there's nobody left to work the farm, and that's why you have a sea of fucking Walmarts instead of culture.

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Those lonely, tiny blue polygons drowning in red in the south and midwest?

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They're where the people are, and they're lonely blue islands every election, and they don't matter because of gerrymandering, which I know you know because you reminded me last time I got a little misanthropic.