'Gary Has a Lake 2: Everyone in Indiana Isn't a Racist Dumbass'

[Dick Whitman]

Illuminating!

I moved from a blue state to a red state and it changed my life

 

[heyabbott]

Illuminating!

I moved from a blue state to a red state and it changed my life

A straight middle aged married white woman blends in to a University town in the MidWest. How adventurous. Tell us more about your church's outreach program

 

[MisterCreosote]

Writing a terrible, paint-by-numbers column like that is inadvisable, but she's not wrong that the surest way to ignorant narrow mindedness is to never leave your hometown.

 

[Dick Whitman]

I was flabbergasted to learn that a ****ing Union state had a stop on the Underground Railroad.

 

[Donny in his element]

I was flabbergasted to learn that a ****ing Union state had a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Yeah, but I bet the train cars were segregated.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Yeah, but I bet the train cars were segregated.

You're confusing it with the Boston stop.

 

[playthrough]

I live in Indiana and love it. Great place to raise kids. The state is financially healthy. The weather, all things considered, is fine. A great state university. Affordable housing pretty much everywhere. There's a lot of good, cheap golf.

But if you're telling me you moved from San Diego to Terre Haute, I'm not going to give you a high-five. I'm going to look at you like you're nuts.

 

[MisterCreosote]

San Diego is also a little more politically diverse than this writer gives it credit for.

It's not like some of the other whackadoo California cities.

 

[YankeeFan]

Her friends are idiots:

As I settled into life in the Midwest, I heard the same assumptive questions: “Did everyone you know vote for Donald Trump?" "Are there African-American, Jewish, Asian, LGBTQ people in Indiana?" "Do people make fun of you for listening to National Public Radio?”

 

[Dick Whitman]

Her friends are idiots:

As I settled into life in the Midwest, I heard the same assumptive questions: “Did everyone you know vote for Donald Trump?" "Are there African-American, Jewish, Asian, LGBTQ people in Indiana?" "Do people make fun of you for listening to National Public Radio?”

Her friends aren't real.

 

[YankeeFan]

Her friends aren't real.

Yeah. You're probably right.

It's just weird to paint your fellow urban liberals -- who are supposed to be so smart -- as ignorant bubble dwellers.

 

[YankeeFan]

It's funny. Sally Kohn, a lesbian, progressive, talking head, who used to appear on Fox News, gave a Ted Talk where she explained to her audience that conservatives, including Sean Hannity, are nice.

Do other progressives really need to be told this?

I don't know of examples of the opposite, where conservatives tell their shocked friends about an interaction with liberals in which they discovered that liberals are actually nice.

 

[Dick Whitman]

It's funny. Sally Kohn, a lesbian, progressive, talking head, who used to appear on Fox News, gave a Ted Talk where she explained to her audience that conservatives, including Sean Hannity, are nice.

Do other progressives really need to be told this?

I don't know of examples of the opposite, where conservatives tell their shocked friends about an interaction with liberals in which they discovered that liberals are actually nice.

Really? You are almost 50 years old. Have you not ever read the letters to the editor of a local newspaper? Have you never read the online comments after certain news stories?

Paeans to what swell people liberals are, let me tell you.

 

[YankeeFan]

You are almost 50 years old.

I'm not sure why you needed to round up.

 

[Dick Whitman]

I'm not sure why you needed to round up.

My kid is doing rounding at school right now. I'm just in that mindset.

 

[YankeeFan]

My kid is doing rounding at school right now. I'm just in that mindset.

I had an ex, who the minute you turned 26, you were in your late twenties, and almost 30.

Drove me nuts, especially since 26 is mid twenties.

My wife isn't as bad, but she's still a rounder.

 

[Fly]

I had an ex, who the minute you turned 26, you were in your late twenties, and almost 30.

Drove me nuts, especially since 26 is mid twenties.

My wife isn't as bad, but she's still a rounder.

As long as she's rounder in all the right places

 

[Jake_Taylor]

This made me think of the times I've imagined my dad, who has lived in Lucas, Kan., his entire life other than four years of college in Hays, Kan., and @Michael_ Gee meeting. If they talked sports, music, movies, etc. they could be best friends, I'm sure.

If they started trying to explain their politics they'd feel like they'd just met a Martian.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

This made me think of the times I've imagined my dad, who has lived in Lucas, Kan., his entire life other than four years of college in Hays, Kan., and @Michael_ Gee meeting. If they talked sports, music, movies, etc. they could be best friends, I'm sure.

If they started trying to explain their politics they'd feel like they'd just met a Martian.

My rule of thumb when I traveled for work was that "sports is for everybody." I never talked politics unless asked a direct question. In person, I still adhere to that rule except with my closest friends.

 

[Big Circus]

This lady must be a big music fan:

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