[momtothree]

“The father “chose” to live in Maryland”.

I live in Maryland. My husband and I were born and educated here. His employment is here as well. I’m not arguing that Maryland is perfect... it isn’t. However, it seems odd to blame a person for that state that they live in. Do you commonly judge people based simply on the state that they live in?!

[Texas Fossil]

I simply mean that I could not live in Maryland because of what and who I am.

I have guns, I own property (if that is still possible in the day of Obozo) and I hate oppressive dictatorial government. (see my tagline)

That is all I meant. If I offended you, sorry.

[rlmorel]

I happens on Free Republic a lot. Heck, I used to do to to. Refer disparagingly towards California as the land of fruit and nuts, and so on.

I always wore my faults on my back in that respect, being from Massachusetts.

I had it given to me good, and rightfully so. I don’ t do it anymore.

[grey_whiskers]

Do you commonly judge people based simply on the state that they live in?!

In my experience, Texans routinely p*ss all over other states but have a schoolgirl hissy fit, sometimes ranging up to threats of physical violence, the minute anyone criticizes Texas.

It reminds me of the classic line from Dave Barry, describing the crabs scuttling across his lawn in Florida:

...Since we live in South Florida, geologically, a giant swamp with shopping centers, we have these crabs who live in holes in our yard, and I do not care for them. Being from the North, I prefer yard critters that are furry and cute, whereas crabs look like body parasites magnified 1,000 times. During mating season, they become outright hostile. I'll go out in my yard, and there, blocking my path, will be a crab, adopting a karate stance and waving his pincers menacingly to prevent me from mating with his woman.

"I don't want to mate with your woman, " I tell him. "Your woman is a crab, for God's sake." But this only makes him angrier, because I think he knows, deep inside his slimy little heart that I'm telling the truth.

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

I remember driving through Baltimore about fifteen or twenty years ago; the radio had a public service ad with the voice-over of an African-American woman talking about the pain you feel when you find your man has been with another woman. And then her voice cracked when she ended up, "...but what do you do when the other woman...is your nine-year-old daughter?"

It wasn't a fake: "sponsored by the Ad Council and this station" ...

Give me the Midwest, any day.

Cheers!