[NativeNewYorker]

I guess I've been away so long....

Groton was a typewriter factory enclave. And nearby Peruville was a little slice of rural West Virgnia.

Sounds like Tompkins County now resembles Greater Washington DC:

One large institutional employer, a seedy downtown, a "young peoples'" neighborhood, patches of suburbia, and some remaining rural hinterlands.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Sounds like Tompkins County now resembles Greater Washington DC: One large institutional employer, a seedy downtown, a "young peoples'" neighborhood, patches of suburbia, and some remaining rural hinterlands.

And both are out of touch with mainstream America.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Update: Today's Ithaca Journal has an editorial about how to use the "big brother" tactics liberal usually decry in an effort to fight hate crimes:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/725223/posts