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AverageOldGuy

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8. Will make no difference in Alabama

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Thu Jul 9, 2026, 07:23 PM

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I'm a Mississippi native, wife is Alabama native. We both left at age 18 and never looked back. Go back from time to time for funerals.

Our Mississippi and Alabama siblings and cousins, their children and grandchildren will bitch and moan about the cost of gas, groceries, health care -- then they blame it on the socialists, and vote Republican.

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