Do you feel sorry for the white liberals in Birmingham, Alabama?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

God Yes. There's enough pockets of them but they all still must be miserable. It's not even like Atlanta or Austin where they still dominate the immediate area. Just all around miserable.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I live in Minneapolis so I'm very used to everyone around me having the same political views. It'd feel weird to not have that.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I live in Minneapolis so I'm very used to everyone around me having the same political views. It'd feel weird to not have that.

Wait, you don't live in the former Bachman's district???

No I never had her represent me thankfully.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Is BRTD suggesting white liberals can't be friends with black liberals

Black liberals sure, but this is Alabama, they might vote Democratic but that doesn't make most of the blacks there liberal. Although to be fair you're probably a lot more likely to find them in Birmingham than in the rural black parts of Alabama.

I live in Minneapolis so I'm very used to everyone around me having the same political views. It'd feel weird to not have that.

1. Do you commonly discuss politics with "everybody?"
2. Life is all about steping outside your comfort zone and trying new things and meeting new sorts of people. I can't imagine insisting that all your neighbors think just like you.

I don't discuss it with everyone, but you can glean info easily in this age. Bumper stickers and what people post on Facebook. I see only liberal stuff on Facebook (some of it pretty stupid in all fairness, but nowhere near as stupid as the right wing nonsense I hear about), and can kind of safely assume every person I meet is some generic liberal type. It came up at my work a bunch in 2012 especially when the debates were on in the break room and everyone was cheering on for Obama and laughing at Romney. Also it's quite nice to be able to safely assume that people aren't Birthers or think the Tea Party is anything but f[inks]ing idiotic.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Actually I'm now convinced the exit poll that showed Obama in 2008 with just 10% of the white vote in Alabama had to be way off. I can't see that as possible with the county breakdown and even statewide numbers.

Obama had to get around just under 20% of the white vote each time, like about 18%. It's actually possible to draw a majority white (around 52% is what I got) state house district that voted over 71% for Obama in Birmingham. I was also able to draw a 60% Obama majority white district in Huntsville. And wow I found a >90% white precinct in Huntsville that Obama won! (granted with just 50% but still it's just 3% black!)

So how about Montgomery and Mobile? In Mobile I was able to get an over 53% Obama district that was also over 53% white and in Montgomery a just barely majority white district that gave Obama 54%. But these numbers are more consistent with Obama winning only about 10% of the white vote. Also worth noting the Mobile district had a generic R average, implying it would probably vote Republican in any non-presidential year. I should also point neither district would likely withstand VRA scrutiny since they are based around what's best described as "rather conservative but with a non-neglible white Democratic population" supermajority white precincts and then padded with very heavily black areas nearby.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Of course, I doubt BRTD feels sorry for conservatives in San Francisco (white or otherwise) despite an almost identical situation.

Not really. I do sometimes wonder who the 162 people who voted for Romney in my precinct are (who make up only 8.15% of 2012 voters and are outnumbered more than 10:1 by Obama voters) and how they feel about living here, but "feeling sorry for them" is not something I'd say I feel.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

On that note, I do actually feel sorry for Doug Jones. Or rather I did before he became a Senator, he came out well on that, but in the years running up to that it had to be pretty rough for him.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Well now my answer is no because they're so close to such a killer f[inks]ing fest and can easily attend!