[EvilCapitalist]

Hey, go easy on us. I hate the Pocono Record as much as the next conservative, but I only live about 10 miles from the Pocono Record Headquarters. There’s some good conservatives in the area. We have the same problem that Colorado has. Colorado had a major influx of leftist Californians, and the Pocono’s has had a major influx of people from NYC.

I of course am native Pennsylvanian going back at least 4 generations.

[Brad from Tennessee]

I love the Poconos. In 1974 I wound up in Vermont where I worked in a variety of jobs for two years. I let the insurance lapse on my car and sure enough, two weeks later it was stolen. After about 10 days I got a call from the Colorado Springs Police saying they had recovered my car. It was summer so I decided to hitchhike. A friend of mine decided to go with me. The first day we got down into Pennsylvania on I-95 then decided to head west. Somehow we ended up in the mountains on foot on a two-lane road. It was dark and then it started raining. Then all of a sudden this big new Pontiac (I think a GTO) pulled up and stopped. There were two young women in the car and they offered us a ride. We got in the back seat and explained who we were and where we were headed.

These girls—today I can't remember their names—were on their way to the Mount Airy Lodge where they worked. They said if we wanted to stay there they could get us a discount on a room rate. The Lodge was interesting. It was run by a bunch of young Italian guys wearing gold crucifixes. The next morning the girls gave us a ride up to Scranton. It was a beautiful drive. From Scranton we headed west.

I lived in Colorado off and on for eight years. I still think of it as a Red state. In the mid 1970’s when I lived in Vermont it was still mostly conservative. I moved to Tennessee in 1990 and it has gotten even redder over the years. We still have some old die-hard Dixiecrats. They are fond of saying things like, “Obama may be a ni__er but he's our ni__er.”