I live in Sussex and we do, with a bemused smile on our faces, often call our own selves lower and slower.
But let elaborate a bit for those non-Delawarians.
Sussex county is the largest county in any state west of the Mississippi. We have an extensive shore line on the Atlantic and were it not for us and our tourist revenue, Delaware would be in a heap of trouble.
We are well-behaved, law-abiding, farmers a lot of us, transplants for surrounding and high property taxed states looking to escape the fiscal oppression. Our county council CUTs expenses if need be and always has a balanced budget.
We have a temperate climate, breezy, mild winters, a couple of weeks of heat in the summer but this only attracts more to our shores.
It's paradise on earth here in Sussex county Delaware. Don't believe that nonsense about Delaware being a very blue state.
Kent county is home to Dover Air Force base and spend a couple of hours hanging around here and you'll see some of the most amazing airplanes in the air. Kent county is a bit more urbane than Sussex county, but still very conservative, home to a lot of gambling places that attracts the tourists up from the Sussex Beaches.
And lest anyone think we are all provincial rubes, Sussex county has one of the largest homosexual areas on the east coast.
We get along just fine, just fine, thank you. We get along better than they'd ever get along in Wilmington. We hire the residents of Rehoboth Beach, they belong to our churches, they live next door.
We live happily together and I daresy a Sussex countian would take up arms to protect our homosexual neighbors.
It's the Wilmington area that's blue and this is because there's a slew of NJ and Philly transplants all living on welfare and willing to vote Democrat for a pack of smokes.
Delaware's population is most conservative I daresy, or there's way more Conservatives than the Blue Blood Ruling Class Delaware GOP would have you believe.
Thanks for the info.
I’ve lived in Sussex a couple times in my life, as well.
But when a freeper like Doughty One is elected President-for-life by write-in, with Red Badger as VP, you people, and the equally benighted denizens of that other rump state Rhode Island, will all be represented in the House by one Representative and in the Senate by one Senator. That's more than fair. 2 rump states. 2 reps.
Neither of these individuals will be elected. They will be appointed by myself, G. Gordon Liddy, and a grouchy conservative utility curmudgeon yet to be named. After coming up with Claiborne Pell, Joe Biden, Mike Castle, and Buddy Cianci, it is obvious that the people of the rump states, Delaware and Rhode Island, can no longer trusted to handle their own affairs.
Excellent detailed analysis of the demos of Delaware.
But you’re wrong about Sussex County being the biggest county in any state west of the Mississippi.
Some counties in Maine are larger than all of Delaware, and are nearly unpopulated.
Delaware 1,954 square miles
Maine counties
Washington 3,255 square miles pop: 33,941
Hancock 2,351 square miles pop: 51,791
Penobscot 3,556 square miles pop: 144,919 (contains Bangor)
Aroostook 6,829 square miles pop: 73,938 (Aroostook is the largest county east of the Miss R)
Piscataquis 4,377 square miles pop: 17,235
Somerset 4,095 square miles pop: 50,888