Boy is Iowa white! -- Not that there's

anything wrong with that! (in Seinfeld's voice)

In other news, grass is still green. :D

too bad, rural whites make these decisions for us.

but still less than 100,000 population.

We're not all rural by heritage.

A little over 100,000. NH is quite rural, too, but it's not all rural. In the last election, Manchester voted Republican while the rest of this rural state voted Democratic.

southern states- with the exception of VA, which we stand a good chance of taking. And we don't need those states to win. Obama is competitive as the nominee.

Lest anyone thing I believe Obama is going to slash and burn his way through the South, I don't. But the South is in transition; right now, it's still solidly white men-folk in the driver's seat with their wimmen cheerfully accepting their down-and-in-a-world-of-shit status. It won't be forever, possibly not even for more than another election cycle. Too many people moving in (including the dreaded Brown Folk--they can't vote, but their US-born kids can); and too many middle-class African Americans asserting themselves.

like, almost twenty years ago? Those southern states?

What scares the living crap out of White Southren Menfolk (as opposed to, well, rational people who may or may not be male living 'round these parts) is that the 25-30% of the population of some Southern states that happen to be African-American ALL decide it's time to get out and vote.

If you had anything like the percentage of hyper-motivated White Southren Menfolk voting among black Southerners, it'd probably be a bloodbath. And these pig-ignorant fuckers know it, which is why they cling to stupid shit like the GA Voter ID act, in the desperate hopes that they can knock off a couple of points by disenfranchising these voters.

:toast:

what a great feeling that is.

If you travel cross-country, you rarely see Black people or Hispanic people.

-- Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska -
climbed from 1.2 million to 1.8 million -- including about 1 million Hispanics in Illinois. Over the same period, the white population in these states declined by 400,000.
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=126_0_2_0

Not in the little towns off the interstate.

Here are a couple of examples. (By the way, the Nebraska town cited in the first article is on I-80, and about 15 years ago experienced an enormous influx of Latino immigrants.) It's not only cities. The face of rural America in changing, as also well documented in Eric Schlosser's fine book, "Fast Food Nation."

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/25/america/NA-FEA-GEN-US-Africans-in-Nebraska.php

http://www.jsri.msu.edu/RandS/research/ops/oc21.html

types can rise above when the our progress is on the line.

Obama's not my favorite, far from it, but Iowans spoke and I think we need to listen, even if they barely nodded to my guy Biden.