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Indiana and, by reputation, Nebraska. Indiana has yet to find out what LA did, that is, if you don't tax industry you can't repair roads, have great schools or provide a regulatory infrastructure. It took Huey Long in LA to pave rural roads and provide schoolbooks to kids. IN loves to tout its low taxes but it has poor education and transportation. Even Notre Dame pretends it is not located there.
Now, IN has high fees for registering your car in the state and little state support for folks who need it, like the disabled, single mothers or people trying to improve themselves. The state depended on revenue from the 'steel region' and that went bust. Now they are just trying to make ethanol out of their amber waves of grain.
Indiana and, by reputation, Nebraska. Indiana has yet to find out what LA did, that is, if you don't tax industry you can't repair roads, have great schools or provide a regulatory infrastructure. It took Huey Long in LA to pave rural roads and provide schoolbooks to kids. IN loves to tout its low taxes but it has poor education and transportation. Even Notre Dame pretends it is not located there.
Now, IN has high fees for registering your car in the state and little state support for folks who need it, like the disabled, single mothers or people trying to improve themselves. The state depended on revenue from the 'steel region' and that went bust. Now they are just trying to make ethanol out of their amber waves of grain.
The state needs a new mindset.
hey Manigault...
does the backward-ness of the state seem to "trickle down" into it's residents? I mean...would you say that folks are "dulled" by the ignorance(?) governing them?
"Backward" in an infrastructure sense: Alaska & Hawaii
"Backward" in terms of people's dressing styles: Great Plains states/ Iowa/ Kansas & suburban/ small towns in the South
"Backward" attitude is everywhere though
Everyone is "backwards", it just depends on who you ask. Everyone thinks their ideas and way of life are better than others. I think we all can be a bit arrogant at times.
Thanks j1n, you reassured me that I'm not missing anything over here in General US. You don't even define what you are talking about ... backwards? What? If you're going to take the time to make a thread, make it so it makes sense and define what you are talking about!?
Backwards as in, not liberal? Because I feel like that is what it gets perceived as in this forum. If your morals disagree with something - it makes you "backwards" .. or you are racist, or you have a "phobia!"
Isn't this thread rather childish? Just because you don't live in a certain area and understand their customs and way of life (city dwellers vs. farmers; northerners vs. southerners) doesn't mean that they should be called backward.
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