>In transiting Oregon on a federally funded highway, Ididn't glue a chip to my
>shoulder on crossing the state-line and was unprepared for the denigrating
>comments about Californians overheard at rest stops.  I suppose there are
>red-neck oafs at many gas stations in every state but Oafis oregoni made that
>extra effort that justified special treatment and mention.  Perhaps the
>impoliteness and ill-mannered behavior has something to do with the trees.
> Most of my prior visits to Oregon were in the more arid two-thirds of the
>state east of the Cascades.  If given a choice, I'll avoid your state in the
>future.

Oregon is also the state that gave us the Oregon Citizen's Alliance, that
neo-nazi group that is (like a virus) attempting to infect neighboring
states.  But at least it gives Lon Mabon's family a job and keeps the whole
gang off welfare.

Ron, who likes the *state*, but not the rednecks who live there.
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