re: #433 sagehen

Peter King was just on with MSNBC, in all his righteous fury… I laugh at him when he goes on his anti-Muslim rants, but today he made me proud to say he’s from my state. Yelling about how quick the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut delegations were to support Katrina relief, he feels shit upon that the southerners and mid-westerners are being assholes just because they hate our region and want us to suffer, he resents the regionalism he’s hearing in the Congressional cloakroom, and fuck party discipline if this is what they’re going to do to him on Sandy the whip can just go fuck himself next time they need his vote for something and… okay, I may be paraphrasing a bit, but that was really the gist of it.

That is part of the issue, truth to tell. It’s seen in Illinois all the time: Chicago doesn’t understand downstate and looks at too many of the people there as hicks or yahoos, while downstate doesn’t understand Chicago and often despises it as a city of crime, temptation and ‘socialism’.