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KY_EnviroGuy

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34. We've been trying to ditch Mitch for a long time. It's an uphill battle...
Fri Jun 14, 2019, 11:06 PM
Jun 2019

but we'll keep going until he's gone. It would be such a relief for KY Dems if he were impeached. We must find a way to counter this right-wing entrenchment in states like KY and TN caused by brainwashing of millions of previously decent citizens in rural areas by talk radio and Faux News, along with co-opting a significant percentage of protestant churches. This will be a very long road of change.

My wife and a group of her fellow retired friends will be visiting your fair state in July, when they'll rent a cabin at Hocking Hills State Park, about 30-miles southeast of Columbus. It's one of their favorites in their rotation of several places to take mini-vacations that also includes the Great Smoky Mountain area.

The nastiest job I recall during my days as a service engineer was in a steel mill in Lima. But, like much of northern Ohio, the special treat always was the great Italian family restaurants that are rare here. Same during some work I did in Lorain, northern Indiana and western PA. I always tried to find something local and special everywhere I traveled.

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I'm in between, but I'm going to take umbrage and go with the last choice ProudLib72 Jun 2019 #1
Valley folk. applegrove Jun 2019 #2
hills? CloudWatcher Jun 2019 #3
Flatlander, Baby Brother Buzz Jun 2019 #4
LOL, I remember those as a kid in my little country town. KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2019 #6
Hill and mountain heritage. KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2019 #5
You from Southern Ohio? True Blue American Jun 2019 #7
Central Tennessee originally - Cumberland foothills.... KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2019 #9
Husband from True Blue American Jun 2019 #10
Small world! Had a good friend from Lenoir city (ham radio buddy) in college in TN. KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2019 #12
I hoped you would get rid True Blue American Jun 2019 #14
We've been trying to ditch Mitch for a long time. It's an uphill battle... KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2019 #34
Born and raised in East Tennessee. SouthernIrish Jun 2019 #31
Yes, it's an ingrained mindset and culture in its own. My dad was a mountain man.... KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2019 #35
Southern Ohio was much the same. True Blue American Jun 2019 #37
I grew up in Flatlands, which is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. nt earthshine Jun 2019 #8
:) True Blue American Jun 2019 #11
I ain't no flatlander. dem4decades Jun 2019 #13
You admit to True Blue American Jun 2019 #15
Desert dweller! Floyd R. Turbo Jun 2019 #16
Technically I am a flatlander but for the flatlands of Florida, I am on a hill csziggy Jun 2019 #17
LOL! Kali Jun 2019 #20
I know - but Floridians are impressed by the fifty foot drop from the ridge to the swamp csziggy Jun 2019 #23
In WV Mendocino Jun 2019 #18
I'm a Valley guy, fer sher. Aristus Jun 2019 #19
Rolling Hill Folk RobinA Jun 2019 #21
I've lived on hills for 95% of my life. hunter Jun 2019 #22
Flatliner lillypaddle Jun 2019 #24
I'm a Tucsonan. Lady Freedom Returns Jun 2019 #25
i have no idea... samnsara Jun 2019 #26
seaside... Blue_Tires Jun 2019 #27
Grew up in the eastern Kentucky hills get the red out Jun 2019 #28
Join the crowd on the accent True Blue American Jun 2019 #38
My wife and I live a few blocks from these folks: yonder Jun 2019 #29
Other: River Rat/ Beach Bum NightWatcher Jun 2019 #30
Done reckon I usetabe hill folk Blue Owl Jun 2019 #32
Ustabe? True Blue American Jun 2019 #39
Hills, then city, seacoast. Don't do exurbs well. N.S., Not Southern. appalachiablue Jun 2019 #33
Even lower-Bayou Babe. nolabear Jun 2019 #36
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