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Originally posted by Spanky
You are getting into other issues. I was making the point, that in the more rural areas of America people have a stronger inclination towards limited government. And this is reflected in their size of their state governments. For reasons, that are beyond me this statement was disputed by Sexual Harassment Panda and Ty. The main point of evidence used to dispute my assertion was that most rural states recieve more money from Washington than they send to Washington.
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Raises a meta-point about communication in general. . .
If you THINK you were talking about A, or INTENDED to talk about A, but everyone else understood you to be talking about B . . . then what were you really talking about?
The problem was that, as often happens, you and Ty spent a long time beating on each other using slightly different points. You are correct about the psychology. Ty is correct about the hypocrisy and self-interest. The rest is just detail.
S_A_M