I have to confess I am pretty much a "yellow dog" Democrat i.e. I'd vote for a yellow dog as long as it was running as a Democrat. Well, almost. Don't know but what that makes me any different from a Replubican voting for a chimpanzee.

Like 95% of most social workers I am definitely a liberal, and the Democratic party tends to be more liberal than conservative. I am also from West Virginia, which is fairly southern, but is rural, unionized industrial as opposed to rural agricultural or un-unionized mills, and therefore of a more liberal bent than other parts of the south. I would forsake the party if the party completely forsook liberals, but my choice of parties is really more about upbringing (indoctrination)than thinking, and I believe that is true for many people. I like to say my daddy raised me to be a good Democrat, a Baptist and a Reds fan. I managed to shake the last two, but the ol' elephant has stuck in my psyche.

Thomas Jefferson said something to the effect that good men with the same information can disagree. While I personally can not make sense of why anyone would vote for Bush within the context of my own paradigm, I don't have a patent on proper paradigms, and am not comfortable assuming that anyone who disagrees with my political opinions is unthinking, uncaring or ignorant.

Janie