This is a good article. Well done. I'm always both amused and saddened that people type a state by a few steriotypes. Take California for example. It's a big state. people think of beaches, shorts, skateboards and palm trees right? Well, let's remember it's one of the biggest agricultural states in the unites states. (Should we actually be one , considering that most of our state is a desert is another topic) We are a state of rednecks and wealthy people who are as rascist and classist as they come. But we get painted as a liberal state and sure it's safer here in some ways for a lot of reasons, but in other ways it's not.) I recently traveled to a city near where I live in Farm country. I didn't see anyone that wasn't white and everyone stared at us as we drove through town with a "get along and don't stay" look in thier eyes. There were more churches there than businesses and the tone of the town said that there was probably a large Klan presence there. When we pile bad steriotypes on a state, we forget the issues we have in our own front yard. I've been to Kentucky, it was in some areas a lot like every other place ive been to in this country. Some similarities, some differences. Ain't that America?