<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=UTF-8 http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1276" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 12/3/2003 12:52:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, dhenwood@panix.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>Really? Tom Frank is writing a book about Kansas, his home state, and <BR>says it's gotten more conservative. How's KC gotten more liberal?<BR><BR>Doug</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV>Actually, not to be pedantic KC is in Missouri.  I lived in KC in the early 90's, and the Kansas side of the city+suburbs (Johnson County) was actually more liberal than the Missouri side.  However it was "Yuppie" country and it was comprised of KU graduates.  The Missouri side was more southern than western.  It was, overall more conservative than New York but less that Omaha, Nebraska (were I live in the early 80's)  Like everything, no easy answers.</DIV></BODY></HTML>