Randy - you are probably right, though I imagine it depends on locality. On the point of tax flow, I was harkening back to something one of my urban planning profs told me in college in the late '70s, so even if he was correct then, things may have changed, and he may have been talking more about the east coast in any case. <br><br>My bigger point, though, is simply that other than people who have gone totally off the grid and get all their food and supplies from their land, our lives are very interdependent. We all have reason to care about what happens in each others' necks of the woods. Hence it's good for all of us to follow the sage advice from the article: <br>"We need to have a more optimistic and congenial view of humankind if we expect to have broad political appeal." <br><br>Trashing "rural rednecks" or "urban liberals" or whatever is needlessly polarizing and ultimately peeing in our own backyards.
