Definitions by T Wade
Alabama
A State and State of Mind - and some might say a Black Sucking Hole. Born & raised... I then managed to escape for 20 years. Later I somehow got sucked back down to Dixie for what was supposed to be temporary... that was 5 years ago (Bama years = dog years, so that's 35 actually). It has beautiful country, ocean, flat lands, mountains, waterfalls, etc. And even FREE thinkers but only in Birmingham on the Southside. Politically the state is firmly in the hands of the GOP. White democrats (aka Dixiecrats) rushed like lemmings from the Democratic side to the Republican as a result of the GOP’s rhetoric on states rights. By capitalizing on white fear, they successfully rode the civil rights movement in the 50s and 60s to victory. In Alabama, it being the BUCKLE of the Bible Belt, there are many puritanical religious zealots that think Bill Clinton put an x-ray vision satellite in space that flies over every night and counts their guns. No lie... there are those who wrap their pistols in aluminum foil so they won’t get counted.
bush family
A blue blooded family of East Coast aristocratic ilk who moved to Texas during an early 20th century oil rush. Thus bush family was able to increased wealth exponentially (on the backs of poor white & hispanic oil workers). NOT unlike Civil War Yankee CARPETBAGGERS, they took on regional mannerisms and affected southern drawls in order to assimilate and pass for Texans. The bush family strategy has been DYNASTICALLY successful (not to mention even producing TWO US Presidents to date).
bush family by T Wade August 28, 2005