On Oct 30, 2006, at 5:57 PM, Jim Straub wrote:
> Dumbest thing I've read all month. Christ, I'm a socialist and
> even I viscerally recoil with a snarl at a sermon from the upper
> west side about how much morally superior they are to those awful
> hicks in the flyover states. 'Tude like this is why the liberals
> lost the culture wars. Thank malatesta I live in northern Nevada.
> I'd take an afternoon with a mormon roads department truck driver
> over this jerkoff snob any day of the week. "It's so unjust".
> Waah waaa. Thanks for driving blue-collar middle america into the
> arms of the fascists, dickhead.
Uh, it's Wolcott. I think it's a joke, at least in part.
The reality-based portion of the joke, however, is that the "blue states" have lower divorce rates (and maybe murder rates, haven't checked it) than the "red states." Which is one reason why Garance Francke-Ruta astutely pointed out that "values" voters are voting aspirations (to prosperity & stability), not reality.
Doug