[Carry_Okie]

John Kerry won every city with a population above 500,000.

Every Republican who values this country had better know that the environmental laws that are driving landowners off their property and back into cities play a key role in consolidating the power of the left.

[phxaz]

phx az.. over 500,000 pop.. red.

[jcb8199]

And Thomas Jefferson, the dichotomous hero ("wall of separation", "atheist/deist") and villain (slave-owner) of the Left, said:

"The cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous citizens, and possess most of the amor patriae. Merchants are the least virtuous, and possess the least of the amor patriae." --Thomas Jefferson: Answers to de Meusnier Questions, 1786. ME 17:116

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"An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings, whether moral or political, than a lazy lounger, valuing himself on his family, too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable existence by eating on that surplus of other men's labor which is the sacred fund of the helpless poor." --Thomas Jefferson: Answers to de Meusnier Questions, 1786. ME 17:91

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"I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787. Papers 12:442