My hope: is that it encourages other southerners to turn out for voting… because Mississippi (and Texas. and Kansas. and South Carolina) now breaks the illusion of, “my vote doesn’t matter because my state’s always red, regardless of my voting”. It feels like the “Southern Strategy” is falling apart.
I live in Louisiana, and our “generational farm-boy” Dem was <1% away from winning the Senate seat against a Trump sycophant… I couldn’t believe we even got that close; it’s fucking deep southern hoedown 'round most this state
My fear: complacency. And us US Americans are conditioned to be “Laissez-faire” about our democracy. Maybe this conservative/fascist shit will make Gen Z/A USians wayyy more aware of politics and class?
🫂 sorry friend, I used to live in Lincoln and still have family out there (and in Kansas). But if Kansas and Mississippi can do it, Louisiana and Nebraska can too! One day… one day
Man, I’d like to believe it. I thought maybe we had a chance with Osborne but he lost as hard as any Democrat would have. If you look at a map of counties colored by how far they swung either more Democrat or more Republican this election, Nebraska is basically highlighted in red while most of the rest of the country is blue.
If I could move, I’d move. I’m tethered here in more ways than one. But there’s no hope in this state.
My hope: is that it encourages other southerners to turn out for voting… because Mississippi (and Texas. and Kansas. and South Carolina) now breaks the illusion of, “my vote doesn’t matter because my state’s always red, regardless of my voting”. It feels like the “Southern Strategy” is falling apart.
I live in Louisiana, and our “generational farm-boy” Dem was <1% away from winning the Senate seat against a Trump sycophant… I couldn’t believe we even got that close; it’s fucking deep southern hoedown 'round most this state
My fear: complacency. And us US Americans are conditioned to be “Laissez-faire” about our democracy. Maybe this conservative/fascist shit will make Gen Z/A USians wayyy more aware of politics and class?
There’s so much fucking work to be done
cries in Nebraskan
🫂 sorry friend, I used to live in Lincoln and still have family out there (and in Kansas). But if Kansas and Mississippi can do it, Louisiana and Nebraska can too! One day… one day
Man, I’d like to believe it. I thought maybe we had a chance with Osborne but he lost as hard as any Democrat would have. If you look at a map of counties colored by how far they swung either more Democrat or more Republican this election, Nebraska is basically highlighted in red while most of the rest of the country is blue.
If I could move, I’d move. I’m tethered here in more ways than one. But there’s no hope in this state.