re: #344 Shropshire_Slasher

I don’t understand the romance of the Civil War. While I was on vacation in Maine, I noticed a pickup with the stars and bars painted proudly on the hood, WTF. Maine had some of the best fighters in the Civil War. Nothing screams ignorance like the stars and bars.

Maine has its fair share of rednecks. We recently had the “Redneck Olympics” up here, which was very successful by any measuring stick.

Events included “wife carrying,” “beer swilling” and “bobbing for pigs feet.”

(That the U.S. Olympics Committee has warned the owner not to use “Olympics” any more is beside the point; the hootenanny was quite successful and they’ve made plans to do it again next year.)

About 25 or so years ago, the Ku Klux Klan came to my hometown (about an hour-and-a-half northwest of Portland) because they thought that economic conditions in the area made it a perfect recruiting place and one they thought would be receptive to the Klan’s message.