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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> I know all here believe in the principle of fairness so I am compelled
> to offer, that during the time Chris and I lived and worked in Little
> Rock--1987-88--it was common to hear, "thank god for Alabama." Or was
> it Louisiana? Anyway, Arkansas was then considered second to the
> bottom by economic measurements according to the natives we talked to.
> It was a perverse pride.

Now that the first cup is in me I am thinking it was Mississippi that  
Arkansans considered economically below them.

We enjoyed our time in Little Rock. It was almost like visiting  
another country, the culture was so different from what I had known.