primitives discuss Nebraska

[franksolich]

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/1002404447

Oh my.

The swamped primitive's doing a state-by-state survey, about what the primitives think of a state.

SwampG8r (8,209 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

state by state speak your mind about...nebraska

malcolm x was from nebraska so was johnny carson warren buffet l ron hubbard and the koolaid guy

i point this out to demonstrate what nebraska has been in our culture

nebraska is the deep heartland of our nation and many of her children are our examples and our role models
her sons and daughters set the bar for the rest of us

its a rich place in terms of agriculture and grows pretty much everything
corn soy pigs cattle

arbor day? nebraska

it was the end point for many black southerners during the Great Migration

nebraska has tried to be the place where america still lives and i thank her for that but rural exodus is eating away at nebraskas counties

almost all have shrinking populations as more and more move into more urbanized areas chasing opportunities
i will go here one day see it for myself

TreasonousBastard (18,990 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

1. Don't forget William Jennings Bryan...

devoutly populist and anti-war, anti-corporatist, and anti-Republican, but pro Creationism, pro Prohibition, and would undoubtedly be pro-life if he were alive today.

Mz Pip (22,896 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

2. I lived there for 7 years in the 50s. I went to a small rural school for Kindergarten and 1st grade. Then we moved to Chicago. Major culture shock!

I'l like to go back for a visit. I have fond memories of it, even though I was pretty little. I'm sure the town has changed, but it is still there and looks like it may have grown a bit.

joeybee12 (37,055 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

3. Don't large masses of birds, cranes, I think, descend on an area

there in the spring...I hear it's incredible, the sheer number of them...blinds are set up for viewing and it's very popular...I'd like tos ee that someday.

Ho-hum.

The Sandhills cranes.

Odd, how visitors rave over a phenomenon Nebraskans are used to.

And franksolich gets those damned bald eagles all over the place in summer.

Nature's pretty to look at, but it ain't no fun to live in.

Brickbat (11,679 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

5. Yes. The sandhill crane migration goes through a "bottleneck" in Nebraska in the spring. I've seen it twice and it's amazing.

libinnyandia (1,061 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

4. Johhny Carson was an Iowan for 8 years before he moved to Nebraska.

Gerald Ford was born in Omaha.

Surya Gayatri (2,635 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

6. And don't forget Henry Fonda, Fred Astaire,

Marlon Brando, Dick Cavett, Sandy Dennis, and many more that don't spring to mind right now.

For a state with a very low population, NE has exported more than its share of talent.

The brilliant ones tend to leave...

Brickbat (11,679 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

7. Willa Cather, Marie Sandoz, Grace Abbott (helped write Social Security legislation) and Grover Cleveland Alexander.

Surya Gayatri (2,635 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

8. NE's remote rural counties are some of the poorest in the US. Vicious circle--depleted tax base, poor schools, brain drain.

The major product from some of those poor counties is methadone. Poverty and meth: a lethal combo.

Real salt of the earth peeps, but stubborn and blinkered, which explains NE's red political hue.

dmallind (9,447 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

9. Another place I have lived!

The vast majority of the state's population is in the Omaha-Lincoln corridor on the extreme eastern edge of the state. Anyone who has driven the state's full 400-odd miles east to west knows why

Winds. I've never had to lean a motorcycle that far over to go in a straight line in my life

The people seemed genuinely nice. Not the fakey enthusiasm seen in some places I've visited but genuinely happy to see new residents

There ARE hills! Admittedly they are made of sand and only in the extreme west of the state but they are there

Runzas

I've heard it is technically illegal to vote Dem if your car has county plates

Speaking of county plates, it's nice that the Nebraska DMV helped us identify people likely to be confused by these new fangled illuminated red and green and yellow traffic controls at intersections

Speaking - seriously - of the DMV, it's a truly wonderful experience to go into the office as a new resident and be handed your plates AND drivers license in one visit without having to go through the cavity search and FBI review that, say, New York applies

Having said that, $976 for car tabs should buy a good deal of customer service. So much for low taxes in the Red states

Speaking of excessive taxes, I used to think NE property taxes were unimaginably high. Then I moved to NY. At least in Nebraska that included garbage and recycling service

[MrsSmith]

Whew, it looks like they are missing all the best reasons to live in Nebraska.      Good!  The last thing Nebraska or Kansas needs is an influx of leftists!  It's bad enough they've perverted Colorado!

[Skul]

If I had to move out of Texas when I retire, it would be to Hastings.

[Big Dog]

SwampG8r (8,209 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

malcolm x was from nebraska so was johnny carson warren buffet l ron hubbard and the koolaid guy

Your list is short a few names, DUmmy swampwater. franksolich, BEG, airwolf, Celtic Rose, and Big Dog- all past or present Nebraskans. And don't you forget it!

You would have thought the DUmbshits might throw a bone to the sad clown of Bellevue, who has never in his life crossed the Rubicon between third place and second- but no. Not even a crumb. Sucks to be him.

[GOBUCKS]

$976 for plates!?! That must include your annual insurance premium!

I just renewed one of mine for $51.75, including $2 extra for using the mail-in service.

Of course, we don't get all that extra government service the $976 pays for.

[Celtic Rose]

They should keep admiring the state from a distance...

[franksolich]

They should keep admiring the state from a distance...

That's what I wish they'd do.

It chills these bones, whenever I hear of Niobrara, Nebraska, described as "the next Jackson Hole, Wyoming."

And on Skins's island, there's two outsiders who migrated from blue areas to Nebraska; the OmahaBlueDog primitive from Florida, and the TwilightGardener primitive from Pennsylvania.....and they brought their voting habits with them, determined to turn Nebraska into another blue Hellhole from which they've just escaped.

And even in-state, we have the problem, exemplified by the big guy, moving from a blue area in Omaha down to red Bellevue, so as to escape the problems of his old neighborhood.  And he too brought his old voting habits with him, bound and determined to turn Bellevue into a blue cesspool like the one he just got out of.

People should live in houses they themselves have built, not squatting in others'.

[GOBUCKS]

It chills these bones, whenever I hear of Niobrara, Nebraska, described as "the next Jackson Hole, Wyoming."

Or the next Rindge, New Hampshire.

[obumazombie]

Your list is short a few names, DUmmy swampwater. franksolich, BEG, airwolf, Celtic Rose, and Big Dog- all past or present Nebraskans. And don't you forget it!

You would have thought the DUmbshits might throw a bone to the sad clown of Bellevue, who has never in his life crossed the Rubicon between third place and second- but no. Not even a crumb. Sucks to be him.

Malcolm the tenth was from Nebraska ?

[franksolich]

Malcolm the tenth was from Nebraska ?

Yeah, Omaha.

That's probably why he grew up eminently literate, as compared with the unhappy fates of others of African derivation growing up in blue cities.

[Airwolf]

I wouldn'r be so kind as too promote Warren Buffett since he has yet t opay that 1 billion dollars in back taxes. Also Nick Nolte was born in Omaha for those keeping count. Nebraska is a great state but it has had its share of not so nice people as well. Charles Stakweather, The Rulo Nebraska Cult. John Joubert who killed two little kids while stationed at Offutt AFB.

[JakeStyle]

Whew, it looks like they are missing all the best reasons to live in Nebraska.    Good!  The last thing Nebraska or Kansas needs is an influx of leftists!  It's bad enough they've perverted Colorado!

You are absolutely correct, Mrs Smith, they have ruined Colorado.  It was a great place to grow up in the '70's, but what a mess it is now.  Even the small, off the beaten trail places like Silverton and Ouray have become liberal stinkholes.  It makes me sick.

[MrsSmith]

You are absolutely correct, Mrs Smith, they have ruined Colorado.  It was a great place to grow up in the '70's, but what a mess it is now.  Even the small, off the beaten trail places like Silverton and Ouray have become liberal stinkholes.  It makes me sick.

When you've got a state that decides to try to scare the cougars away instead of shooting them after they start eating people, the liberal stamp is obvious.  As I understand it, the only time they considered shooting them was when they were eating pets...  Gotta keep those priorities straight.   

[obumazombie]

When you've got a state that decides to try to scare the cougars away instead of shooting them after they start eating people, the liberal stamp is obvious.  As I understand it, the only time they considered shooting them was when they were eating pets...  Gotta keep those priorities straight.   

Pets are people too, so are whales.

[GOBUCKS]

You would have thought the DUmbshits might throw a bone to the sad clown of Bellevue, who has never in his life crossed the Rubicon between third place and second- but no. Not even a crumb. Sucks to be him.

That creepy Bellevue graveyard site belonging to the grim, dour, dyspeptic Marta still has a button for donating to Socialist Steve's disastrous council campaign.

Apparently DUmp pledges didn't come through in adequate amounts to cover mini-tacos for the seven people at his big Bear's Bar Blowout.

The Sarpy County democrat party probably drew the line at a much smaller figure.

Poor stupid Beth should fire up a donation plan to retire the big guy's campaign debt.

[Airwolf]

That creepy Bellevue graveyard site belonging to the grim, dour, dyspeptic Marta still has a button for donating to Socialist Steve's disastrous council campaign.

Apparently DUmp pledges didn't come through in adequate amounts to cover mini-tacos for the seven people at his big Bear's Bar Blowout.

The Sarpy County democrat party probably drew the line at a much smaller figure.

Poor stupid Beth should fire up a donation plan to retire the big guy's campaign debt.

After Andyscam does anyone really want her anyplace near money in large amounts?

[FaC]

I will be able to report back in about 2 months. I have the great privilege to return to Nebraska in July. My last time in the state was while I was cutting wheat in western Nebraska in the summer of 1982. This trip I will be flying into Omaha and then staying to Lincoln for a week. I am expecting to find salt of the earth people and a warm welcome.