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before we moved from Delaware to Asheville, we also did quite some research. on bestplaces net there was a way to compare cities health wise.
regarding the air quality there was a chart from 1-100 (100 is best). my town in Delaware ranked 9.8 , asheville ranked 78.4 It's still not superb (and we have to deal with those coal powered plans in tennessee, who send over quite some pollution) - but what a difference going from under 10 to over 70 !!
It appears half the population is Republican there won't be as many green initiatives there.
Being aware of this shows knowledge of current events, as opposed to burning bridges, imo. That's a great thing in a college grad! For example, in 2011 & 2012, the House Republicans voted over 300 times against the environment. This included an effort to bar the EPA from requiring power plants to reduce carbon pollution, as well as end the Clean Air Act, to be replaced by pollution levels dictated by industry costs. Clean air doesn't seem to be a concern at all to them.
most of MLK's kids remain republicans. The girls are anyway. His son, I am not so sure. Funny that.
I know Yolanda King & her mother are famously pro gay rights. And Bernice King spoke at the Democratic National Convention in 2008. Plus she included the LGBT group in the 2012 MLKJr parade. She also publicly said that Jesus would be with 99% Occupy. He was fighting for the poor when he died and so she thought he would be against 40% of the wealth in the US belonging to 1% of the population.
Where did you hear all of MLK Jr's daughters were Republican? Just curious. I couldn't find anything about that online.
MovingOver, this is not directed against your post, it is just the timing of my thoughts.
I'm sorry, but I have to ask: is there some reason this thread needs to swirl into yet another tired, political, finger-pointing, and eventually name-calling discussion?
We can spend pages (until Kayak pulls the plug) re-re-re-rehashing (truncated for bandwidth limitations) how if Democrats only rules the world it would be pollution free, there would be no hunger, peace would reign, and there would be total harmony, or if how only Republicans reigned the country would not be setting records for public debt, the world would be a more moral place, people would be freer from government micromanagement, and free to enjoy the fruits of their own labor. That, a good discussion of unicorns, and $4 will buy me a cup of coffee and a muffin tomorrow.
The OP asked a question and the answer is pretty narrow in scope. The fact that a political leaning/observation was included is not a license to turn this into another discussion that I do not come onto this site to hear. I am sorry if this offends anybody, but let's provide the information and leave the political jabs alone please.
Hey Mule, I get what you are saying, and I respect the timing. But just to be clear, I was responding to others' political posts here as well as the OP. I wasn't the first to focus in on what the OP wrote re: Republicans....And isn't interesting how you threw in your own sarcastic political views using some very theatrical verbiage while posting on how we shouldn't turn this into a political discussion.
Oh, brother...Asheville does not sound like the place for me. It would be constant arguing with nonsensical Republicans. Democrats are not a bunch of little fairies as you like to portray them, they are simply people with a lot more sense as to what's true and good. Unlike "y'all" who like your SUV's and cockamamey religion and meat and pollution. The end.
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, asheville ranked 78.4 It's still not superb (and we have to deal with those coal powered plans in tennessee, who send over quite some pollution) - but what a difference going from under 10 to over 70 !!
