Maryland

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Maryland is yet another state living under unjust urban rule.

I would have to agree with you, Philip, though there's no solution.

I guess you could add Illinois and Delaware to that list.

How is urban rule any more unjust than any other type of rule? I'm originally from upstate NY, and would gladly take a downstate Democrat over an upstate Republican. Pataki is from upstate NY, and he has a terrible ratings in upstate NY (Hillary's upstate NY rating's margin is something like 35 points better). The fact is, he's always claimed the upstate NY economy is booming. Only Hillary had the balls to call bullsh**t on that. What Pataki says on the economy is such a joke. Once IBM laid off 5,000 engineers, and a Walmart hired 30 people in the same month. Pataki talked about how those 30 jobs proved that upstate NY was turning a corner, never mind that it's been shown that for every 2 new Walmart jobs, 3 others are lost.

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Only Hillary had the balls to call bullsh**t on that.

Well, you're right about one thing.  She sure has balls, literally.

Now we could discuss why the upstate economy is so depressed, but that would be pointless.

The problem with upstate New York's economy is the same as the problems with most of the Rust Belt cities.  Heavy industry has fallen from grace.  Have you visited upstate New York, recently?  Schenectady, Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo, are full of Old Economy industries that have been in decline due to competition from overseas and have had factories closed due to outsourcing (such as Carrier's air conditioning plant in Syracuse).  Though more and more high-tech industries have been appearing, such as Eastman Kodak and Xerox adding to their large operations in Rochester.  So it might get better eventually.  But for now most of the cities of upstate New York are very blue-collar.

Yes, I've been there lately. It never really recovered from the Bush I recession of '91.