[The Shrew]

Thank you so much for the ping. That is an amazing post and one that humbles me in that I haven't been kind in my assessment of MA voters. Brown's victory and rlmorel's post indicates patriotism is still alive in the Northeast.

Regards,

TS

[rlmorel]

TS, I know what you mean, and I (who has had NO reason to speak ill of any other state in this respect) have been guilty in the past of doing the same thing.

“California can slide off into the ocean when the next big one hits the land of Fruit and Nuts.”

“Why should New Orleans be called “America’s City” when all they did was whine and cry, while a state next to them picked up and cleaned up with a lot less fuss.”

And so on. I got called on the second one by a conservative Freeper from Louisiana who lives just outside New Orleans. He pointed out why I was wrong to paint everyone there with the same brush, and it forced me to stand back and engage in some introspection.

All the times people called us “Massholes” and every other perjorative one could think of to lambaste us for having the congressional delegation we DID, I would take umbrage at it, and here I was, doing the same thing.

I am ashamed to admit it, but true. So if we can wrench back the seat from the cold, dead fingers of the Kennedys, perhaps there is hope for all of us.

So, I try to keep in mind: There MUST be conservatives who live in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berkeley, Madison, Cambridge and Ithaca.

Well, maybe not Ithaca, but you get the idea...:) (Now where is that Freeper who posts the “Ithaca, City of Evil” graphic?)