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[Timothy]

sounds alot like CA... 90% of the land mass is conservative, if it was not for LA and the bay area this would be a very conservative state.

CA is nothing like MA....for one you have 39 million people to our 6 mil.  CA can reverse the course of an election cycle, MA cannot!

Having lived in both states for an extended period, I would prefer NOT to live in either!!!!!

[Texas_Bryan]

sounds alot like CA... 90% of the land mass is conservative, if it was not for LA and the bay area this would be a very conservative state.

Where's that big earth quake at?

[TAB]

what we really need to do is split the state, have a nor cal and a so cal.(the bay area can go with so cal)  Sadly it will never pass as so cal gets most of thier water from nor cal. 

[Texas_Bryan]

what we really need to do is split the state, have a nor cal and a so cal.(the bay area can go with so cal)  Sadly it will never pass as so cal gets most of thier water from nor cal. 

Try split the country.

[Timothy]

what we really need to do is split the state, have a nor cal and a so cal.(the bay area can go with so cal)  Sadly it will never pass as so cal gets most of thier water from nor cal. 

I still don't buy your math TAB.  On your assumption of 90% conservative, 10% liberal you would only need about 3.9 million plus one other vote to give the 55 electoral votes to the conservative.  That has not happened since Reagan won 49 of 50 states against Mondale, a complete ass whupping.

No, there are too many hippies growing hemp in the north now, I know, I lived in Humbolt county for two years.  You could not go into the mountains without walking through a field of pot.  No biggie, I don't care one way or another on the matter. 

The point is, that because it's a race to call an election, the poles close all over the country at different times and Californians resign themselves that they can't do much to stop the process so they don't vote.  Split the state?  It's never going to happen, it's not about politics, your right, it's about the water!  Apathy is what's taken your state into the shithouse, a few million dopers, actors and homosexuals control the mob out there.  The gold panned out in the late 1800's, what's left is the stinking pile of tailings contaminating the groundwater....

Other than that, it's a lovely place to visit!

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[1911 Junkie]

Other than that, it's a lovely place to visit!

I hear they have happy cows.

[TAB]

I still don't buy your math TAB.  On your assumption of 90% conservative, 10% liberal you would only need about 3.9 million plus one other vote to give the 55 electoral votes to the conservative.  That has not happened since Reagan won 49 of 50 states against Mondale, a complete ass whupping.

No, there are too many hippies growing hemp in the north now, I know, I lived in Humbolt county for two years.  You could not go into the mountains without walking through a field of pot.  No biggie, I don't care one way or another on the matter. 

The point is, that because it's a race to call an election, the poles close all over the country at different times and Californians resign themselves that they can't do much to stop the process so they don't vote.  Split the state?  It's never going to happen, it's not about politics, your right, it's about the water!  Apathy is what's taken your state into the shithouse, a few million dopers, actors and homosexuals control the mob out there.  The gold panned out in the late 1800's, what's left is the stinking pile of tailings contaminating the groundwater....

Other than that, it's a lovely place to visit!

sounds like siskiyou county, my unlce owned alot of property up there, owned a house right next to the sherriffs, you could see people groing pot from the back proch with high powered binos.

[tombogan03884]

rowing is not a sport... its what happends when your motor brakes.  

My opinion as well, But they seem to enjoy going up and down the Charles river.

sounds alot like CA... 90% of the land mass is conservative, if it was not for LA and the bay area this would be a very conservative state.

Dog gone ! TAB put up 2 posts in a row I agree with   

My kid is our hope....and remember, there are 900,000 licensed gun owners in MA, nearly 20 percent of the populous.  As Tom stated before, the eastern 1/4 of the state is communist, the rest of the state is pretty conservative!  Our biggest problem is the 2 million communists in and around Boston rule!

Tim is right too, it's that way in most, if not all states. The urban areas are dependent on Welfare, Govt. money and the other crumbs of "machine politics, such as patronage jobs (big in Mass) They just expect the rest of the state to pay for it.
When the time for Civil war comes it will not be region against region like the last one, it will be either the Rural population "Fumigating the cities or (more likely) a sudden rush to flee collapsing cities being met by resistance.

[Rob Pincus]

At one point a few years ago, one of the coaches for their team was a student of mine... I had tried to work out a "guest lecturer" opportunity at M.I.T. for the team, but lost track of it.... guess it won't ever happen now!

-RJP

[tombogan03884]

I still don't buy your math TAB.  On your assumption of 90% conservative, 10% liberal you would only need about 3.9 million plus one other vote to give the 55 electoral votes to the conservative.  That has not happened since Reagan won 49 of 50 states against Mondale, a complete ass whupping.

No, there are too many hippies growing hemp in the north now, I know, I lived in Humbolt county for two years.  You could not go into the mountains without walking through a field of pot.  No biggie, I don't care one way or another on the matter. 

The point is, that because it's a race to call an election, the poles close all over the country at different times and Californians resign themselves that they can't do much to stop the process so they don't vote.  Split the state?  It's never going to happen, it's not about politics, your right, it's about the water!  Apathy is what's taken your state into the shithouse, a few million dopers, actors and homosexuals control the mob out there.  The gold panned out in the late 1800's, what's left is the stinking pile of tailings contaminating the groundwater....

Other than that, it's a lovely place to visit!

You are missing the point that legislative districts are set by population, cities get more than rural areas and cities are controlled by political machines, it may be before your time, but that was why Boston completely controled Mass politics until the time of Senate President Billy Bulger in the 90's. ( Yes, He 's related to Whitey, they are brothers)