Posted on 01/17/2017 3:47:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
FAIRFIELD, Illinois — Drive 275 miles due south from Cook County to Wayne County. You’ll notice differences right away.
It is warmer here, literally — last Wednesday, when it was 42 degrees in Chicago, it was 67 degrees in Fairfield, the county seat, and with a population of 5,000, the largest town in Wayne County, population 15,000.
Figuratively warmer too. Ask directions at a bakery and the owner will walk out into the street to point the way. Strangers volunteer to put you up for the night. Pop in on the bank president, unannounced, and he’ll visit with you a good long spell. The Rotary meeting starts with a sing-along of “Clementine.”
This isn’t the traditional South, true. But the three vehicles in the fleet of the Fairfield Police Department are Chevy pickup trucks.
The occasional Confederate flag can be spied flying in the yards of modest homes that sell for $35,000. There is a free-standing video store....
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Hospitality, good cheer, Confederate flags, pick-up trucks. Horrors!
Rotary is similar to Lions, Kiwanis and etc.
Just damn.
The newspaperman probably proudly takes public transportation every day, and doesn’t drive a car.
OMG. He probably thinks it’s a Chevy Ram, like from the old Sammy Johns song in the 70’s
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