When I read the letter to the editor in the Sierra Sun Times ( http://goldrushcam.com/... ) on-line edition this morning (we may be rural America but we are avant garde with both a weekly hard copy and a daily on-line newspaper), my reaction was: Joe Bageant (1946-March 2011) would have understood this man perfectly. No one captured rural America for me like Joe Bageant did. He was so articulate when he told his stories of the local folk.
The point of the letter, District 1 Redistricting, was a rant at the local supervisor who voted against a resolution forever banning medical marijuana.
Since I've lived here a long time, I can remember when it was not safe to let anyone know if a person were not a registered Republican voter. Now we've progressed to the point where the Democrats have a float in the annual Labor Day Parade. We might get boo's or thumb's down, but no one throws a fire bomb.
The man who wrote the letter would have been at home in the the Iowa caucuses. I wonder how many voters live in rural America. California is interesting. The big cities are blue, but the mountains are red.
