I never said I wouldn't gloat.

[WMS]

Kerry got 61% in RI, 63% in MA, and 58% in NY.

I think it's best if 'we'* let 'them'** govern themselves.

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*'We' will be defined as The "New England Triangle", containing MA, RI, CT (maybe) and NYC and LI.

**'Them' Are the NASCAR idiots who watch cars drive in circles and waste billions of dollars worth of gas every saturday and sunday, or whenever the hell they drive in circles.

I am ASHAMED to be part of the same country with the rednecks who re-elected this lying f**ck because he 'keeps them safe'.

I am a Massachusettonian/RhodeIslandan/GreaterNYArean.  They are Southerners.  I AM NOT ONE OF THEM.

Call me an elitist.  Damn sure I am.  Nothing wrong with elitism.

Your attitude is very sad.  You should listen to Sen. Kerry's speech.  There should really be no such bitterness this time - Pres. Bush won fair and square.

Although I am a northeasterner, I find the type of northeastern elitism you express to be repulsive.  We may dress better (at least some of us) than some people in other parts of the country, we may have better restaurants and our tastes may be more sophistocated, but that doesn't make us better or wiser than our fellow Americans.

My sense is that people in the heartland have a certain wisdom and understanding about bedrock American principles that many people around here lack, and we're too stuck up, snobby and elitist to recognize that the people in flyover country that we consider inferior may have something to teach us.  That attitude is really a shame.

Speaking from part of flyover country, thanks Dazzleman!

[WMS]

Speaking from part of flyover country, thanks Dazzleman!

Anytime, buddy.  I hate to see that attitude, and it really gives the lie to the pretensions that people in this part of the country have about being tolerant and inclusive.  It's really quite embarrassing.

Thanks again, especially since half of my ancestry comes from the northeast! There really is no one region that is 'more tolerant' than another, just different types of intolerance. For example, there are Hispanics here in NM that are more racist towards blacks than anything I've encountered in the south.

And a True Story: I was on good terms a few years back with a co-worker (since retired) who was a dyed-in-the-wool 'Chicano Socialist', anti-government Vietnam Veteran, definite Democrat, used to be the City Planner for Los Angeles some years back. And he told me 'no one is as racist as a white liberal'. But you know that already.