[Joe Hadenuf]

Lockheed Martin missiles & space Operations, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., has successfully built and orbited more than 875 spacecraft for military, civil government and international commercial markets. The company's satellite systems are revolutionizing global communications, delivering extensive and timely weather information, exploring the universe and furnishing new data for thousands of scientists studying our Earth environment.

[GOPcapitalist]

Lockheed Martin missiles & space Operations, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., has successfully built and orbited more than 875 spacecraft for military, civil government and international commercial markets. The company's satellite systems are revolutionizing global communications, delivering extensive and timely weather information, exploring the universe and furnishing new data for thousands of scientists studying our Earth environment.

That's nice but irrelevant and demonstrates you are STILL missing the point. You implied that the south was composed of technologically backwards who had never seen a space flight and therefore were fascinated by cars.

The heavy presence of the space program, which is almost exclusively located in the south, suggests very strongly otherwise.