(10-14-2019 01:18 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(10-14-2019 12:06 PM)bobdizole Wrote:  

(10-14-2019 12:01 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(10-14-2019 09:16 AM)bobdizole Wrote:  Land doesn't vote, people do. Our country is pretty purple as in almost half and half support each political party.

Popular vote 62,984,828 65,853,514
Percentage 46.1% 48.2%

In our country land does vote. Wyoming and cali have the dame number of senators and they vote. I know you hate America but that is a stupid phrase.

We aren't The United States of California, New York, et..al.

You want civil war, go for it.

And you gleaned I hate America from what part of what I said?

If you mix into a bucket 46.1% red and 48.2% blue what color do you get?

But the country doesnt mix that way. Its all red, except for the shithole locations, which are marked in blue.

Memphis voted blue

Most of the metros where people actually live both parties got at least 40% of the vote. I would say that is pretty purple.

Purple to me implies that most most people could go to either side. That most certainly is not the case. We have 2 colors, mostly unmixed.

It's like 2 different countries with horrible borders.

(10-14-2019 10:52 AM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(10-14-2019 10:10 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(10-14-2019 09:31 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  I suspect that no matter how 2020 turns out, we are going to be equally divided afterwards. I don't see a happy result, unless some kind of patriotic, moderating leader shows up to pull us back together. And I don't see one, do you?

Nikki Haley in 2024?

I’m not convinced that she will actually seek the presidency. But if she does, and if she seems likely to defeat the Democrat nominee, then the media will Unload on her just as much as they unloaded on Newt Gingrich, George W. Bush, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, et al.

Worse.

She had the very nerve to work in the Trump admin. We ALL know that's simply unforgivable.

(10-14-2019 09:11 AM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  

(10-14-2019 08:46 AM)bullet Wrote:  http://www.newgeography.com/content/0064...p-ideology

Kotkin argues that America is not a red and blue tapestry, but a purple one.

HMMM. That doesn't look purple to me.

That's a function of the colors you're choosing. You could also choose to represent the colors like this:

Only 11% of US counties had one candidate receive more than 80% of the vote. Some of those counties were big (including DC, Manhattan, San Francisco, and the Bronx), but most were small. Only 5% of votes came from counties that were blowouts.

If you're the other 95% of Americans, then if you have 5 neighbors, odds are very good that at least one of them voted differently from you.

(10-14-2019 09:16 AM)bobdizole Wrote:  Land doesn't vote, people do. Our country is pretty purple as in almost half and half support each political party.

Popular vote 62,984,828 65,853,514
Percentage 46.1% 48.2%

I think that puts too much stock in the outcome of a highly locked down system. Give people more than two choices and it won't look purple anymore.

(10-14-2019 08:46 AM)bullet Wrote:  http://www.newgeography.com/content/0064...p-ideology

Kotkin argues that America is not a red and blue tapestry, but a purple one.

America is not purple. Mega Cities are blue. All other areas are red. Liberals flock to cities and conservatives stay the hell away from that mess. That's the long and short of it. The only exception are the rural poor black belt counties in Alabama and Mississippi which appear blue but are very small population counties anyway.

(10-14-2019 12:07 PM)ShrackUAB Wrote:  

(10-14-2019 12:01 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(10-14-2019 09:16 AM)bobdizole Wrote:  Land doesn't vote, people do. Our country is pretty purple as in almost half and half support each political party.

Popular vote 62,984,828 65,853,514
Percentage 46.1% 48.2%

In our country land does vote. Wyoming and cali have the dame number of senators and they vote. I know you hate America but that is a stupid phrase.

We aren't The United States of California, New York, et..al.

You want civil war, go for it.

Why anyone would want civil war is beyond me. Stupidity. A civil war in the USA is all of our enemies wet dreams

No Conservative wants a civil war anymore than the most ardent Liberal. Unfortunately the days of compromise in our country may well be over. Conservatives are tired of having their freedoms trampled by powerful Liberals. They have already tried to eliminate the electoral college and make the votes of everyone that doesn’t live on the coasts worthless.

You don’t try to overthrow a President when the election doesn’t go your way and expect everyone that voted for the President to fall in line behind whatever leader the usurpers choose.

We our in the midst of a soft coup. If this doesn’t turn out to conservatives satisfaction. Civil war may be the only alternative.

Our Nation is not purple....
Our country was once made up of centralists. Not anymore....
The actions of The Left, since November 2016, has changed that forever.

That county election map is an example of why Liberals can threaten civil war but never fight one.
Look at the map and know.

Blue areas cannot survive without Red areas.
Red areas do not need Blue areas to survive.

(10-14-2019 06:34 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  Our Nation is not purple....
Our country was once made up of centralists. Not anymore....
The actions of The Left, since November 2016, has changed that forever.

That county election map is an example of why Liberals can threaten civil war but never fight one.
Look at the map and know.

Blue areas cannot survive without Red areas.
Red areas do not need Blue areas to survive.

That and they've already proven by how many millions of votes the popular vote in the last election was manipulated. They've taken 2 million dead people off of the roles in Los Angeles alone since the last election and in the Dem precincts the poll workers know whose dead and the illegals use those names to vote. Dade & Broward and Atlanta are probably not much different.

There is no popular vote in the country that can be trusted until we have much tighter voter ID at the polling place and until every precinct has its rolls purged for deceased and moved voters.

As with everything where there is intentional confusion there is corruption and theft. Our country and our citizens deserve better, and the borders must also be preserved.

This mantra of how many more popular votes the left got is pure BS from sorry, lazy, corrupt precincts in large urban areas where the confusion is intentional for the maintenance of phony political machines. The rest of the country doesn't operate that way and these large cities have used it to gain leverage over the rest of us. Enough!

(10-14-2019 06:34 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  Our Nation is not purple....
Our country was once made up of centralists. Not anymore....
The actions of The Left, since November 2016, has changed that forever.
That county election map is an example of why Liberals can threaten civil war but never fight one.
Look at the map and know.
Blue areas cannot survive without Red areas.
Red areas do not need Blue areas to survive.

The blues keep talking about how the blue states are the contributors and the red states are the takers. But that's because the red states are basically production states and the blue metro areas are primarily financial centers. Money gravitates toward the financial centers. But if you don't have the production, you don't create the capital to flow to the financial centers.

If we split between red and blue states, the red states would suffer initially because they don't have any major finance centers. But they would inevitably develop one or more--Charlotte, Atlanta, Miami, Houston, Dallas would all be major candidates and there would be a few more.

If Red areas wanted to begin putting pressure on Blue areas they would simply stop shipping food into the cities. The food supply chain into most cities is tenuous now. For example, many school children in the inner-cities depend on schools for meals. Here in Kentucky much of the produce those children eat comes from rural farms. If Red areas stopped feeding the children, how long would the Blue cities last.

Step 1 in the coming Civil War: Weaponize the food sources for the Blue areas.

All the money in the world won’t feed hungry Leftists. Hungry Leftists are difficult to control. How long before the Blue cities collapse.

(10-14-2019 05:52 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  I think that puts too much stock in the outcome of a highly locked down system. Give people more than two choices and it won't look purple anymore.

Yes and +2 for you