Aspies For Freedom

‘the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun-owning America that has never set foot in a Starbucks’....the very people who had carried George W. Bush to victory...American small towns....the bedrock of a permanent underclass ....a white ghetto of the working poor in which two in five people do not finish high school, nearly everyone over fifty has serious health problems and little or no health care, and credit ratings are virtually nonexistent.....from which alcohol, overeating, and Jesus are the preferred avenues of escape....mortgage and credit-card rackets that saddle the working poor with debt....the ubiquitous gun culture, factory jobs that are constantly on the verge of being outsourced....and the heady blend of Scots Irish culture with the blinkered ‘magical thinking’ of the Christian right.

There ILLEGAL aliens, they should be carted back to where they came from.  They dont have any rights other then to not be beaten, not make money, and be deported.

You know that sign at the restaurant: Authorized Personnel Only Beyond This Point?

We build a nice wall there

I dont care if hispanics get nervous when they see the law approaching...they should.
  yes mark me down as discriminatory and proud to be american ..

Whoa!!!Stop people. There are people who dislike immigrants ALL OVER THE US, not just S. VA. VA is really two states you know- N. and S.

Rein in the Southern stereotypes for a minute. I know for a friggin FACT Hope does better here than she would in a lot of places in the US BECAUSE the people are church-going and at least THINK about the golden rule a little. I wouldn't live in Philly for love or money although her sorta blank face and reluctance to smile would make it easier for her to fit in in some ways.

As a result of the above both the kids and teachers here and in Atlanta where we used to live were usually VERY tolerant of Hope and her eccentricities. Even our pricey expert advised us to put her in a private church school also for the above reasons. The people are just kinder when they are not being religious hypercrites.

Now, it isn't across the board, but I have found that both the South in general and small towns in particular (where everyone knows everybody else for the most part) are helpful to Aspies. There is less bullying if everyone has more or less gotten at least subtly the "memo" that Hope is a bit different.

Re gays, I would venture that fully 60% of Americans, whereever they live, are not very knowledgable about whether it is a choice or not (it's not of course). Meher Baba referred once to a gay man's friend as his "pal", so if homosexuality is ok with the Avatar it is OK with me (always has been actually).

Do your part in debunking the myth that it is wrong because the bible says so. I do!

Re rednecks, there are more rednecks in places like PA, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and the west than there are in the entire friggin south by a wide margin. At least our rednecks have manners here (though some don't and are mean as hell)

Re race- I've said this a million times, but what the hell I'll say it again, the south is loaded with sisters and brothers and we love each other down here. We sure as HELL have tried longer and harder to solve the race problem than ANY other single region in the US. I have tons of black friends and go to their churches on occasion- can a Seattle-ite or Californian or someone from Arizona make that claim? Do they even know anything about black culture in MN or anywhere else outside the south for that matter? We love each other and we mix socially here, unlike the rest of the US. Religion will come next- many churches are integrated now, all over the US actually but particularly (I've noticed- drumroll- in the South).

At this point Barack's race should no longer be an issue. The fact that is still is is testiment to how race-obsessed and biased the US in general is. Jesus, me and Bill Clinton are probably more black than he is and I am not kidding!