Oh totally agreed, me too. Honestly it's one of the things I love most about being in the South. There's a genuine-ness and a heartfelt appreciation for your fellow man down here that's beautiful, and something I haven't seen anywhere else in the States. I swear I didn't mean anything I said as an attack on those folks or on you, just an observation about a fascinatingly anti-majority-rule segment of our population who tend to turn out in droves to vote. Edit much later in the day: for the sake of posterity, since this is on the internet and lives forever, I took OftenBen's words to mean "I know republicans who are better people than the people who use hubski". Reading other folks' responses, I can see that generally, people took it to mean "I am an expert in republicans." For context, that's not what I read. Yay written language!