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

[RFayette]

I don't understand all the fuss about being the political minority. There are a hundred other things that play a larger role in making a place nice or crappy.

This.  Also quite racist.  The idea that white liberals can't feel at home with all the black liberals is weird, to say the least.

Look, in my school (which overall is fairly centrist but leans left, and is definitely left on social issues), some of the happiest people are the far-right religious socon creationists.  Ideological parity != happiness.

[RFayette]

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.

Indeed.  I personally would loath to be around a bunch of libertarians (they tend to be extreme for my tastes) and would much prefer being around a bunch of ultra-liberals or Independent Fundamental Baptists.

Uniformity is boring.

It's like taking the integral of a straight line.....dull.

[RFayette]

I feel sorry for every person in Alabama.

Excepting perhaps Shelby County.

Or Huntsville.  Or the nice parts of Mobile.

I don't think suburban whites have it too bad in Alabama.