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"New York, feed thyself."

LOL! I bet someone has the old NY Post headline:

"FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD!"

This is why we in the heartland should get used to the eastern fringe as "Out East," like Cali/Ore/Wash is "Out West". We used to call it "back east" but let's face it: we aren't EVER going back.

What is truly disturbng about this. most of those Blue votes in my town come from minorities who habe een sold a bill of goods by the dems for forty years. they have never challenged that bill of goods. they've accepted the reality of the new plantation; social.economic, and educational dependence. I have real respect for the black Muslims who have tried to recreate a sense of self. But to hear the Yuppie chically preen about their sophistication gets me.

A midwestern farmer knows more about global interdependence and foreign interests than any NYC MD. His livliehood depends on foreign markets and prices and events. Midwester plant workers for John Deere or CAT are much aware of the events that will affect demand for their products in Indonesia or Chile. And you know most of us New Yorkers aren't all that sophisticated. Even those who vote Blue are basically neighborhood guys who go to work, pay bills, have a night out once a month for a good meal (Though in our case it's not to a chain, but to the local Italian, Chinese, Fill in your choice).

The Blue voters here are not convinced that the Republicans care about their concerns, just like the Red staters know the Dems don't care about them. If the two groups met in a bar or at a game they'd get along quite well. But the chicy sophisticates who have coe to personify my towm, I wouldn't give them directions, which they'd need if they ever ventured out of Manhattan or Brooklyn Heights.