Today's ray of sunshine comes from our own Shannon County. According to Bloomberg's Political Capital blog, Shannon County's Pine Ridge Reservation residents delivered President Barack Obama his largest county-level margin of victory in the nation, 93%. Shannon County even beat the Bronx, which gave the President 91% of its vote.
Here are the President's top ten counties:
1. Shannon, South Dakota (93%): included within the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the southwestern part of the state.
2. Bronx, New York (91%): about one in nine residents in New York City’s northernmost borough is non-Hispanic white. Bronx has been the most pro-Democratic New York City borough in five straight presidential elections.
3. Petersburg, Virginia (90%): a black-majority area about 25 miles south of Richmond.
4. Prince George’s, Maryland (90%): a black-majority area that abuts Washington, D.C.
5. Jefferson, Mississippi (89%): a sparsely populated, black-majority area by the Mississippi River south of Vicksburg.
6. Claiborne, Mississippi (88%): a black-majority county that abuts Jefferson to the north.
7. Baltimore city, Maryland (87%): more than three in five residents are black in Maryland’s biggest city.
8. Macon, Alabama (87%): a black-majority area that includes Tuskegee, the birthplace of Rosa Parks and the site of a university founded by Booker T. Washington.
9. Menominee, Wisconsin (86%): includes the Menominee Indian Tribe about 45 miles northwest of Green Bay.
10. Starr, Texas (86%): about 96 percent of residents are Hispanic in this low-income area on the Mexican border in south Texas [Gregory Giroux, "Obama's Top 10 Counties in 2012," Bloomberg: Political Capital, 2013.01.09].
Well done, Shannon County!
Shannon County can also be proud that it re-elected Tim Johnson in 2002. Johnson's seat in January of 2007 gave the Democrats in the Senate a 51-49 majority!
Doesn't surprise me, one who has been getting free handouts for years supporting someone who claims he will give even more free handouts for doing nothing.
Mathis hilariously featured in this Madville post:
https://madvilletimes.com/2012/05/sioux-falls-group-pushing-for-local-texting-while-driving-ban/
Didn't Johnson get 94% of the vote - beating the Obama numbers? I think it is the first time in South Dakota history that 94% of any group ws of a single mind on any subject. There's an interesting political science article to be written there.
Zane,
"Free handouts for years," you mean like the state of South Dakota's dependency upon Federal tax dollars to balance its state budget?
Why "White South Dakota" continues to vote against its own solvency I will never understand. Unless you understand that State leaders have for years perpetuated the myth of responsibility and solvency in their budgets and the people have bought it.
Well sort of, SD Democrats have been able to get elected to Washington to bring the bacon home, while Republicans are sent to Pierre to keep local taxes down, thus allowing the Federal government to pick up the tab for our State's alleged fiscal solvency.
Would be the free handouts that they get paid simply because they couldn't seem to be able to defend the lands they claim to be so sacred very well, and not getting over it.
It was not their generation that was defeated, and it was not my generation that defeated them. Like I have mentioned before on this ridiculous liberal social gathering site to move on from history and get over it.
But yes Larry, I see you are still living in the past of this website too. Good luck trying to insult me though, as I surround myself with South Dakotas finest 5 days a week. :D
Being that I have upgraded to a touch phone several months ago I find texting more of a challenge and I don't always get the correct word typed in, so I as an individual do not text with my new phone while driving.
South Dakota IS free handouts: that those with treaty rights choose not to support a state government with those proceeds while the GOP balances its budget with handouts from DC is testament to red state collapse.
Get off your entitled white horse, Mathis: it is financed with slaughter and race hatred.
At least one place in SD must have a mind of their own, and think for themselves, instead being sheeple.
At least one location in South Dakota was pleased after election day.
"But yes Larry, I see you are still living in the past of this website too. Good luck trying to insult me though, as I surround myself with South Dakotas finest 5 days a week."
That sounds like some kind of threat Larry. WTF
Which one of these are you Zane, and who are South Dakotas finest?
Road Mafia?
Gang on the streets of Rapid City?
Pure bred Angus breeder?
Or just someone talking trying to be important?
One of the finer pot dealers in the state?
Runs a whore house with the best looking women?
Needs glasses?
Or just another pack of rednecks?
I have lived on this reservation my whole life. I've had my share of fights with the natives and don't always agree with what they are doing or have done. Having said that I also respect those that are trying to make a difference. What have you done lately to make a difference?
Anytime you are ready to have an intelligent discussion about life on the reservation here I am. Until then getting into a wall pissing contest wont help anyone, will it?
We all get handouts in one way or another. If you say you don't your are a liar.
The Blindman
phist bump, dithmer.
Does Shannon county rank among the highest or lowest on the list of education of its residents? I'm just sayin...
21 fewer kitties today.
Over 80% unemployment.
A dropout rate of 70% and 800% above the national average of teacher turnover. (eight hundred. I did not oldfinger an extra naught on that number)
Rampant, even insane levels of alcoholism.
A banner poster-county for Obama support.
We need to pay their teachers more to educate these people.
In Zane's defense, I have known several people who actually looked forward to getting laid off from their jobs, so that they could collect unemployment.
That was back in 2008.
They said straight out that they'd rather collect unemployment than work.
They were all Democrats.
That said, I don't think that these people, or others like them, lie at the root of our recession today. We got into this mess because a whole lot of people tried to live beyond their means.
My main problem now is not whether Obama's administration will raise my taxes a bit and give the money to poor people, even poor lazy people.
My main fear is that my source of income will dry up altogether, thanks to out-of-control activist investors who, when their work is done, will likely have destroyed my publisher.
Then I will pay no taxes at all because I will have no money.
The thought of going on the dole actually makes me feel sick. In this way, perhaps, I differ from the above-mentioned people.
We will have freeloaders in any system.
Maybe more under Obama and Biden than we would have had under Romney and Ryan, but ...
Under Obama and Biden we will likely have fewer people starving to death than we would have had under Romney and Ryan.
I don't have time to get into everything tonight I'm trying to get a couple of little boys to sleep. But I can start.
80% unemployment. Yup that's right this reservation has a very unfriendly business climate. Until everyone both on and off of the reservation starts to look at business and "jobs" in a different way nothing will change.
Those on the res will have to except the fact that no business wants to be controlled to the point that it effects their bottom line. Nobody wants to be told who they can and cant hire, why they cant fire someone who doesn't show up for work, and who that business can do work for.
Those that live off the res will have to except the fact that these people represent nearly ten percent of our states population. Jobs on the reservation mean more money in the states coffers, less people on the welfare rolls, and lower crime problems when that happens. It will mean a lot of give and take on both sides for this to happen, but it can happen.
This is just a side note but I have given the tribe two proposals to increase employment in the last three years. Nothing but total silence.
A dropout rate of 70%. Lets look at it from the point of view of a ten year old Lakota. The first four or five years of school weren't to bad. You got out of the house in the morning and went to school and got something to eat. "SOMETHING TO EAT." Then you learned to do things like reading writing and that math thing. You got to play with other kids a couple of times a day in a safe place, and then you went home.
Then things started to change. You noticed that the big kids were going to school less and less. Someone offered you something to drink or smoke and you did just to see what it was like. Your friends started to get interested in other things, gangs, drugs, fighting, MONEY, and getting into trouble, because they knew that there just wasn't enough law to catch everyone that did those things. You continue to go to school for a while until you reach puberty and then wham it hits you "why am I here when I could be with my friends." Then unless you have a real strong parent its sex drugs intimidation crime and rap music until you are a grandpa then you die.
For some of these kids the only toy they have is the meth syringe they found on the kitchen table along side the empty bottle of Jack. How would your kids like that kind of life? Could they handle it any better then those kids that have to now?
Yes these are social problems but lets not forget that they are not all of the natives doing. Our governments , state, federal, and the tribes themselves dug part way down, and then the people dug the rest of the dirt out. These people want to live like they did a hundred years ago when great grandpa and grandma got in the wagon and it took them two days to get to town and back. Now the kids get in a car and get there in an hour. They would like to get back to the native way of life, one of respect, intellectual thinking, and responsibility for their relatives but the hole is to damn deep. But until that happens Native Pride are just two words, nothing more.
They need leaders that aren't scared to go against the grain. They need to spit in the face of bribes, slap hell out of those that try to intimidate them, and tell their realities to get back under the porch if they don't want to help. There are no easy fixes only hard roads that will take a lot of travel. Most of all they need leaders that want to lead not just do what they are expected to do.
I don't care if you are black, brown yellow red, white or purple, nobody can live like this forever. Change is in the wind. There are those that are tired of life here and are trying to change it for the better. So far they are being beat at the voting booth but it is getting closer all the time.
This change must start at the tribal level not at the federal level. It will require a change in the thinking process that in cooperates the ever changing blood quantum of the tribe and the world they have to live in to do business. And yes it will mean an extension of the empowerment zones to help people start businesses. Only this time put someone in charge of the money that wants to help people other then their realities.
Again could you live like that if that was your life from the beginning? Could you find your way out without some kind of help?
Could you live with this? Yo "ese" next time bring your little sis, she is twelve now and its time we had some fun.
That's all for now, do you feel lucky to live where and how you do yet?
The Blindman
Thank you Bill, well said and sad. I'm glad that there is some hope in your words, but sad that there is the hole you describe. Keep it up.
I appreciate that Bill D. is able to look at the situation on the rez with at least as serious and rational an eye as Zane, acknowledges the problems are huge, acknowledges that our Lakota neighbors bear some responsibility for solving their problems, but doesn't chicken out the way Zane does with a hateful, un-Christian, inhuman "F--- you!" to the entire culture.
Cory, thanks for showing where the true racists are.
Gladly. Folks like Zane expose their racism here regularly. I'm happy to expose and rebut them.
Cory, I was talking about the ones in Shannon County.
Bzzzzz! Wrong answer, Steve!
Cory, they don't hate whites?
i hate the wasichu, too: and i don't live in Shannon County.
More American flags are flown in Shannon County than in Davison County.
Obama's hate-white men campaign strategy may have won him four more years in the White House, but he doesn't practice what he preaches:
Time and again, Romney, Ryan, and Republicans in general were pilloried in the media as too white, too male, and too generic. But now that he's safely reelected, Obama is openly thumbing his nose at the same identity politics that won him a second term by nominating a cabinet that, according to the media, is too white, too male, and too generic.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/01/10/media-pretends-to-scold-obama-over-cabinet-picks
quoting 'sources' like that one will get you nothing but ridicule, sibby: please continue....
Larry, you liberals are being used and lied to by the Establishment much like the limited government conservatives/liberatarians.
Here: go fight with a leftist that hates us liberals like you do, Sibby. He's an accountant, too.
Racism knows no racial barriers. Neither, unfortunately, does hate.
Obama is half white.
After swimming a mile and drinking some Green Fizz, I can't hate anybody, at least for an hour or two.
"Obama is half white."
So he is not America's first black president.
SCOTUS will hear Native adoption case: AP.