Sunday, July 31, 2005
Those darn Red-Staters
Yes, we all totally understand red-staters. We know they're stupid, and don't know what they're voting for, and all those other things. And yet we wonder why they just don't like us coastals.
Maybe, just maybe, we should learn a bit about our Midwestern counterparts before bitching about how they don't agree with us. In an editorial, the Chron cries about wasteful Homeland Security funding.
And the great landlocked state of Oklahoma got its homeland-security funds, according to the show, based on its request for port security.
J. L. Palmer points out:
However, for the sake of accuracy I would like to point out that the "great landlocked state of Oklahoma" does have ports, and there may very well be some legitimate reasons for trying to protect them. Many here are only vaguely aware of the vast inland waterway system at the center of our country, consisting of some 25,000 miles of navigable waters stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes.
Oklahoma participates in this system and has at least two significant ports. The spin that you created with the "great landlocked state" crack was effective and got your point across. But you were wrong.
Let's remember that this isn't just some guy. This is a respected newspaper with a huge, nationwide information-gathering infrastructure.
There's a reason Midwesterners see coastals as arrogant and detached from reality.
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