This is bothering me, too. I read a review of the TV show Arrested Development in the New York Times today. In it was this sentence: "There is no laugh track, and the jokes are sly and smart in a blue-state kind of way."
These "blue state" "red state" comments that have begun settling into snotty pop culture lingo is really irritating.
My mother - a native Texan - has been a staunch liberal all her life. She's worked for a number of causes, namely women's rights and abortion rights (she was one of the core group of women here in Dallas who got Roe vs. Wade to the Supreme Court). An activist friend of my mother who switched off with her to drive our car-pool was Ann Richards, well before she ever thought of running for governor. There are MANY people in this state - and throughout the South - who have no Republican leanings whatsoever.
And, by the way, Dallas - known for YEARS as the most conservative city in Texas - gained Democratic votes this election. Voters are now 50-50. We are neither red NOR blue. And Dallas voted an openly gay, Hispanic woman to be SHERIFF.
But the South has gotten a bad rap for years. Political correctness has made it off-limits to ridicule racial minorities and the "mentally challenged," but it's always fine to perpetuate tired cliches about all those stupid and racist red-neck Southerners.
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These "blue state" "red state" comments that have begun settling into snotty pop culture lingo is really irritating.
My mother - a native Texan - has been a staunch liberal all her life. She's worked for a number of causes, namely women's rights and abortion rights (she was one of the core group of women here in Dallas who got Roe vs. Wade to the Supreme Court). An activist friend of my mother who switched off with her to drive our car-pool was Ann Richards, well before she ever thought of running for governor. There are MANY people in this state - and throughout the South - who have no Republican leanings whatsoever.
And, by the way, Dallas - known for YEARS as the most conservative city in Texas - gained Democratic votes this election. Voters are now 50-50. We are neither red NOR blue. And Dallas voted an openly gay, Hispanic woman to be SHERIFF.
But the South has gotten a bad rap for years. Political correctness has made it off-limits to ridicule racial minorities and the "mentally challenged," but it's always fine to perpetuate tired cliches about all those stupid and racist red-neck Southerners.