RR; I am glad to hear your large and lovely state is starting to see these idiots go away...

re: people tending to their own business, Vermont is similar and you do get some pockets of stupidity there, amongst all the liberals...this was particularly visible when the civil union laws were being debated; a whole lot of ugly homophobia found its way into the strangest places; county fairs, for exmaple. I think ANY state or area is vulnerable to this. Sad.

I remember a study done a few years back which found that the highest number of members of the KKK per capita was not in Arkansas, or Tennessee, or Texas, but....wait for it...CONNECTICUT!

I am travelling to western NY later today and missed my bus which goes through western Mass. and will be going by way of NYC and then through rural Pennsylvania...wish me luck!

peg