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Who needs North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, .........
Kristof is full of sympathy for the grinding poverty he finds in the small towns of North Dakota. But last time I checked, North Dakota had more millionaires per capita than any other state. I wonder what those folks would think about being told to abandon their homes to "make way for buffalo." Actually, I suspect that the "poor" people Kristof interviewed would react in exactly the same way to being told to clear out and give their land over to buffalo and mountain lions.
We really try to be fair to people like New York Times columnists. We try not to stereotype them as ignorant and arrogant. But often they are, in fact, ignorant and arrogant. The scary thing is, Kristof is one of the Times' better columnists. God knows what Paul Krugman would like to do to the Dakotas.
I didn't know about this Buffalo Commons idiocy till now. Isn't it funny that some east coast people who have never been anywhere farther than Disneyworld think that the rest of the country in unpopulated? It is depressing to see that if I had stayed in ND my chances of being a millionaire would have been greater! CP
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