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Originally Posted by Guest
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.
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Amen to that GG......and you can include rural PA (where I grew up) in that category as well. Although I left the area for college at the age of 17 and then went elsewhere for employment, I go back frequently to visit family and friends. You have described these people in your second paragraph much as I see them - good, decent, hardworking people who do everything they can to avoid going on welfare. They put family and country before themselves and are some of the most giving and generous people I have ever met. I would like to think that even though I left the area many years ago, I haven't lost those values.
Looking forward to hearing what some other posters on here think about this, especially those who have in the past pounced on others for what they viewed as this exact same type of character assassination of groups of people.