<p>Also the South has way more black people than the North and more Mexicans also. Texas, Florida and South Carolina.</p>
<p>Funny when Liberals hate the south. I would like to know one president from the North in the past like 60 years or so. </p>
<p>If you like Bill Clinton he is from the South. The</p>
<p>jake: haha i'm the exact opposite- I've lived in Ohio for over ten years, and am going to college in manhattan (NYU) next year. I can totally understand how someone from one of the busiest and most diverse cities in the world would have trouble adjusting to the slow suburban life that is popular around here.</p>
<p>I must agree with the poster above that many of the people have never left the state let alone the country in my school, and I happen to live in a relatively wealthy/upper middle class neighborhood near Cincinnati. I can seriously understand how the close-mindedness and the lack of activities and "stimulation" could really drive someone who is from a big city crazy.</p>
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<blockquote> <p>I would like to know one president from the North in the past like 60 years or so.<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>John Kennedy and George Bush the 1st were both born and raised in New England. (Bush moved to Texas only as an adult.) Nixon was from California. Ford was from Michigan. Reagan was born in Illinois and lived most of his adult life in California.</p>
<p>Should have said 40 and I meant North East.</p>
<p>California is not North. Michigan is Midwest so is Illinois.</p>
<p>Maybe if more presidents came from the Northeast we would stop having such awful presidents and get more Kennedys and Roosevelts.</p>
<p>Dude FDR was incredible but no one has nothing on Reagan.</p>
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<blockquote> <blockquote> <p>Dude FDR was incredible but no one has nothing on Reagan.<<<</p> </blockquote> </blockquote>
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<p>it's "anything," dude =P</p>
<p>I'M SORRY
I'm doing grammar hw right now. haha.</p>
<p>Smilin' Ronnie was the president whose administration classified ketchup as a vegetable in school lunches, amongst other questionable achievements. When he died they conveniently air-brushed all of his idiocies and failures. The press always loved him, anyway, because he knew how to talk and pose for them. To mention him in the same breath as FDR is a travesty. (FDR, for better or worse, was a monumental figure. Reagan was the Hollywood version of a president.) The one thing about Dubbya is that he makes Reagan look bright.</p>
<p>FDR tried to do more to subvert the Constitution than any other President. Contrary to the nutcase rumours about W and 9/11, FDR may have had pretty good reason to suspect the attack by Japan was coming. He was a great leader but his regard for the Constitution make W look like Sam Ervin.
I was not around for FDR, but Ronnie helped make America the #1 superpower in the world with no #2 yet</p>
<p>I'm no great fan of Raegan's, but that's a bit of an overstatement. Read Reagan's speech at the Berlin Wall. He may not have accomplished much of great importance, but he didn't **** anything up either. </p>
<p>But barrons, he hardly helped in that regard- he was riding out events set in motion completely independent of him.</p>
<p>He was cleaning up after the inept Jimmy Carter who ran the Army into the ground so badly we were considered feckless. RR rebuilt the armed forces and forced Russia to surrender without a shot ever being fired. He also helped rebuild our shattered economy. Under Carter the term Rust Belt meant the Midwest was dead. It came back strong under RR and except for Michigan remains strong today.</p>
<p>Hm. Trickle down voodoo economics?</p>
<p>Grammar Nazi!!! lol.</p>
<p>I stand corrected:</p>
<p>"Dude FDR was incredible but no one has anything on Reagan."</p>
<p>Or as my schoolmates would say, "FDR was THE schiznit but ain'tt noONE has no thing on Reagan"</p>
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<p>Barrons,
Indiana's economy is dead too!</p>
<p>People don't just ride things out, I hate when people describe a great leader or even a small leader as "riding the waves" of their predecessors success. It still takes an immense amount of work to maintain a positive position and to maintain that same level of success, which, in itself is a feat. So even if you want to make that statement, Reagan was a GOOD president because he kept the positive things from his predecessors, maintained them, and also added his own touch, thats what a good leader should be doing.</p>
<p>Being a person who moved from Maryland to Georgia, I have to say, it was definitely a culture shock. I was surrounded by a Democratic, extremely liberal, extremely atheist, extremely mixed, middle class crowd of people. Plus, we had snow. The particular area in Georgia I am in right now is really wealthy, really Republican, really Christian, and really white. Not to mention that racism just wafts silently through the air but no one wants to admit that it exists.</p>
<p>Definitely North to south is a big transition.</p>
<p>I think Reagan was foolish and simple. He created the gulf between right and left in this country and replaced thought with rhetoric. I know mine is the dissenting voice here, but I feel compelled to speak up. Reagan was a boon to the rich and a boondoggle to everyone else. </p>
<p>His anti-communism was old-fashioned and childish and were his economic theories. He painted a picture that Americans liked, but it was always a picture, not a reality.</p>
<p>hahaha. </p>
<p>I love how this thread has gone on so many different tangents.</p>
<p>This intrigues me:</p>
<p><<< I was surrounded by a Democratic, extremely liberal, EXTREMELY ATHEIST, extremely mixed, middle class crowd of people. >>></p>
<p>Is the northeast really that full of atheists? And if so, why?</p>
<p>Indiana is not in bad shape like Michigan and the large ag sector will be robust.</p>