Let’s hope the incoming administration has the same qualities as the scouts.

“A scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, couteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, brave, clean and reverant.”

Not mad, just liberal, and unwilling to give Sarah Palin any more credit than she could possibly be due. If she is the future of the Republican party, Democrats will win for a long time to come.

Glad to hear your son’s city upbringing benefited his small town community. We all have something to bring to the table no matter where we’re from. It’s the willingness to get involved and do something positive in your own community that counts, not how big that community is.

Sherri

Debt Free or Bust – Sherris last blog post..Bailout Compared to 9 Other Events Combined

I appreciate your sharing your experience here. And I agree completely.

Especially with your thought

“The one thing is can tell you about all these places is everyone is just as much an American as anyone else. There are differences in attitude and big differences in education and sophistication. But I find the sense of community, patriotism and service is more regional than city or town.”

(See my comment back to Lily Rose! So much for my catchy titles. Got my two best commentators mad!)

But, yes, my son and his family love living in a more close community! And the area benefited from his city slicker upbringing. Alex gets things done! He took those little kids everywhere -to museums, fairs, the aquarium, Springfield to visit Lincoln’s house, to a sleepover in a submarine – - places they had never seen. I am so proud of him.

We do have a few things to learn from small towns about the need for community and being active in one’s community. But Sarah Palin is not qualified to be the teacher. I also take issue that there is a real America vs. what?, a fake America?

I was born on a Naval Base in Virginia, lived in small towns, small cities (Indiana & Kentucky), big cities, and big cities that still think they are small towns (Baton Rouge suffers from this problem immensely). I’ve lived in towns whose major industry was the state’s largest university, and cities that are the state capitol and the home of multiple colleges and universities. I’ve even lived in a city that can hold 15 feet of water and has to be pumped out (New Orleans).

The one thing I can tell you about all these places is everyone is just as much an American as anyone else. There are differences in attitude and big differences in education and sophistication. But I find the sense of community, patriotism and service is more regional than city or town. As I’ve moved farther south, people are more conservative, more likely to serve in the military and less well educated and worldly. But they do place a lot of effort and pride on family and friends. They can also be the hot beds of racial and other kinds of hatred, like the KKK. Not everything is good in small towns.

New Orleans is the biggest exception to all the social norm rules I can think of. It’s a big, metropolitan city that has more small communities within it than I could count. People come from all over the world, but some people’s families have lived there for generations and have never been outside their own area of the city, until they were evacuated.

Was Sarah Palin right? I don’t think so, though I am glad your family is blessed to belong to such a terrific community.

Sherri

Debt Free or Bust – Sherris last blog post..Bailout Compared to 9 Other Events Combined

I will not mention the “unnnamed” again. I am not a fan. In my foggy mind, I thought it was a catchy title. (You read it, didn’t you?)

Rhondal -

Love your sense of humor. Ashamed that I have not read one of the HPbooks although I have bought many for the young people in my family.

Waiting for your Tina Fey script. Send it in to SNL.

I also love your story lines but I gotta tell ya,anyting with that weird woman Palin’s name in it – and I have to repond.

We’ll never get rid of her, but none of my good friends mention her by name — she is called the “unnamed” …

Corinne this is so touching. My first Broker who I have been friends with for the past 30 years was the President of the Boy Scouts in our state and I sent this to him. I just love your story lines and really enjoy seeing new posts on your blog site.