Wjh,

first off I would like to apologize for the tone of my previous post. When I made it I was light on sleep and a bit crabby. I am going to pass by the comment regarding your age compared to my youth since I started the combative exchange.

On to point:

Although I am very conservative in some ways, I would be considered liberal in others, I tend to trend towards Libertarian in general but even that is a poor description. I did not mean to imply that if you weren't far right you were one of the sheeple. I was referencing what appeared to me in your previous post to be a narrow view of what could be called conservative. Groupthink whether left, right or center is bad. If I were to say that far right is the only way I would be guilty of the same sheeple mentality I abhor.

As far as the GOP, in my opinion they are no better than the Dems. Somewhere in the last 40 years the GOP became a bunch of big gov't New Deal Democrats while the Democrats became just plain out socialists. Both parties want control of not just the money but our lives. They just use different wedge issues to get votes. As long as we are stuck in a two party system we are all screwed. /soap box

As far as ceding areas of town or certain types of activities being inherently more liberal, I reject that thesis. Now if the activities are things like burning flags, marching for commie causes or gay sex, well ok, I'll give ya those. Going out for a show or a few drinks, I think most folks like to do that regardless of ideology. I belive that through building relationships and the exchange of ideas that is how you change hearts and minds. I refuse to cede any area of the city I live in and love to any group and run for the burbs and hole up waiting for the "other" (whatever that other happens to be) to cme into my bubble forcing me to move even further out. I can't do any good changing Memphis from the sidelines. There will always be pushback, my role is to stand firm where I am.