OMG that makes my blood boil. I bet that you, Cold No More haven't ever spent any time in either state.

What you portray is the typical attitude of uneducated and snotty people who think that all intelligent life lives in New York and New Jersey. IN FACT, it may be the reason that you vote Democrat having grown up hearing all that mistaken superiority. You seem to have an informed and reasonable attitude in many things and the usual natural progression as we age is to become more moderate but you have not.

Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia is home to many warm, smart, kind and hard working people who value their families and their country. They have struggled proudly through a lot of economic hard times, many of them in the rust belt, without whining or welfare. Many have lived off the land by farming and mining but they WORK.

I cannot tell you how many of you New Jersey and New York "sophisticates" are off base calling people from rural area's "red necks" and hillbilly's and dismissing them summarily. YOU who supposedly believe it is wrong to prejudge groups of people and label them.