Those Who Throw Stones. . .

Well, at least she didn't say anything about raising taxes.

From The Baltimore Sun:

When Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) suggested that Mississippi is the lowest of the low when it comes to state-by-state comparisons, she may have bruised some feelings there.

In an interview with the Des Moines Register’s David Yepsen today, she said she was surprised that Iowa, like Mississippi, had never elected a woman governor, senator or member of Congress.

"I was shocked when I learned Iowa and Mississippi have never elected a woman governor, senator or member of Congress. There has got to be something at work here," she said.

“How can Iowa be ranked with Mississippi?" she asked, suggesting that Iowa is too good for that. "That's not the quality. That's not the communitarianism, that's not the openness I see in Iowa."

Well gee wilikers Wally.

According to the website About.com, a search of women gevernors throughout history proves that niether Arkansas, New York nor Ilinois have elected female governors. I think Hillary has lived in all of these places, might even call one or two of them "home".

Yet to the larger question about perception. . .this only proves that those who live in glass houses still have fat, lardy asses to the extent that their derelict husbands can't keep his wick out of the "help" and therefore should be the last hypocritical piece of trash to cast the first stone.

I know Mississippi has a bad reputation amongst those who don't know Mississippi. Sure, we're last in all that's good and first in all that's bad, but we're not bad people. Need I remind people that is was the strict governance of "Reconstruction" by persons of the north that left Mississippi and other states in the South so far behind the "curve of progress".

I've had the fortunate luck to have travelled to other places. I've lived at a level in third world countries that makes poverty in Mississippi pale in comparison. But I look at it this way, generally the less people have, the more they appreciate what they DO have. . .like family, friends, community.

And when I was living "down yonder way" and would encounter a tourist, they would invariably ask how I ended up living there and where I was from originally.

I am from Mississippi, I would reply.

And invariably I would get one of three responses:

1. "Oh, I've never been there before." ( from the truly surprised, no pre-concieved notion types)

2. "I drove through there once on my way to. . ." (from the truly surprised, yet guilty from telling redneck, white trash and nigger jokes behind closed doors)

Or from the truly taken aback and discombobulated:

3. They would spell out M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I usually followed with a meek smile of success. (the ones truly guilty of knowing nothing other than the common line about ignorance, poverty, hateful racists, etc.)

My response to #3 was typically, "and a gold star for you!"

The solution to this problem of pre-concieved notions, stereotypes and such is self-education. Learn about other places. Read a goddamn book why don't ya? Look at an Atlas or a map. Find out all you can about D'lo or Hot Coffee, Mississippi.

We're not bad people, you're not bad people.

Mrs. Clinton is bad people ya'll.