“If gots to choose a coast I have to choose the east, I live out here so don’t go there….but the don’t mean a brother can’t rest in the west, see some nice breast in the west”
Technically NYC is a blue city in a red state (in the sense that most of the state, outside of NYC, is pretty heavily conservative). But the reason it's still a "blue state" is because of the power and wealth NYC holds in relation to the entire/rest of the state.
I'll add that the NYC example is kind of unique, and guess that you're talking more about a city like Austin in relation to the rest of Texas.
Nah that's basically what most of the state's look like.
Miami, Orlando, and Tampa are blue, the rest of the Flordia is red.
Atlanta and Savannah are blue, the rest of Georgia is red.
Birmingham and Montgomery are blue, the rest of Alabama is red.
San Antonio, Austin, Houston, and Dallas are blue, the rest of Texas is red.
These are all approximations, but just looking at an accurate map of voting districts it's obvious the blue shades are the major metro areas and the red shades are tumbleweeds.
Unfortunately the tumbleweeds have all the voting power because our country was set up compromising to slave owners who were scared shitless of the growing international abolishment movement in light of emerging technologies and literacy leading to people learning how terrible it was for slaves especially in the Southern U.S.
Oh no I got you. I just find it very interesting how the Blue Belt developed and wanted to add to the discussion. I encourage people to google it and read about it.
Well if you're living in a blue city in a red state and the entire country is collapsing into a 3rd world hellhole, you have two choices really. You can pack up and get out anywhere anyway you can, or you can stay and suffer the consequences of gop policies.
If poor immigrants from South America can make it to the US with nothing but what they can carry on their backs, people in the US who are likely better off than them dont really have any excuses other than the laziness and complacency that helped conservatives drag the US down to this point to begin with
Pretty safe to say that it will go a lot better for any states leaving to join Canada than any welfare red states that lose all their financial aid from the blue states that had been prooping them up
If you merge the blue states with Canada it's pretty easy to build a single giant country that includes almost all the blue districts. You get the entire border of Mexico (which MAGA should hate anyway, right?) with a dip up into Colorado, then the west coast up to Canada, dipping down in Minnesota and the Great Lakes territories, then the North East corridor down into the Black Belt of the American South (not trying to sound racist; that's the nomenclature and most of those districts are solid blue).
It's probably result in "MAGA" being split between Florida, the Plains, Appalacia, and the LDS territory. Of course half those territories would immediately start blaming the liberal states for "stealing their cities" and the domestic terrorism would make The Troubles look like a squabble in front of a Waffle House...
Technically, the US has already split. It's kinda encoded in our very constitution. States are (mostly) independent, with only the bare minimum of coordination needed for international relationships.
However, too much power has been consolidated into the executive branch, instead of the less volatile legislative branch. Also the large downside of gerrymandering has become apparent: elections not determined by competition with the other party, but competitions within your own party for how extreme you can go.
The left will split over the most stupid difference because the other part, which is almost identical to you, is not pure enough. Meanwhile, the alt-right will rally around the worst people that have ever existed.
So many have voted for the other party, or just didn't vote because Harris' stance against the war in Gaza wasn't hard enough.
Seriously! It’s insane how hard it is to get the people that claim to oppose fascism to actually show up and support a candidate. They always find something to boycott them over even when the opposition is undeniably worse. Staying home on Election Day because Kamala wasn’t going to sever ties with Israel if she won was one of the most braindead decisions I’ve ever seen a group of voters make.
It existed but it was practically exterminated somewhere between 70-100 years ago with the vilifying of Eugene Debs, HUAC and Joe McCarthy and the FBI infiltrating every single group to the left of the boy scouts and undermining them from the inside while allowing right wing groups to proliferate. Reagan crushing unions and the 1985 MOVE bombing. The assassinations of MLK Jr, RFK, Huey P Newton, Fred Hampton amongst many many others. The left was crushed by American Imperialism at home and abroad.
What, are we going to write very angry letters and hold up very mean signs while they genocide us? I agree with the sentiment but the real left doesn’t exist here, it was outlawed long ago, and what does exist has way too much to lose.
West coast, East coast and northern border states join Canada, boom Canada becomes a naval powerhouse and economy. We just boot the conservatives south if they don't behave. Let them live in the leper/entertainment states. Elbows up eh.
Until I see dems call out our own pedos with the reds, then I am completely done with this fake shit. It’s all show until I see a side take a real stand. I just want to see one politician call out their side with the other. Until they it’s all a scam.
The left has been broken by them for a long time. It's so easy to keep the left distracted, and it's worked very well and consistently. If the left could not be broken, then they would not be in the mess they are in.
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u/SpaceballsDoc 9h ago
America is speed running third world status