We're not in Kansas any more, are we?

[1monster]

[slackmaster]

1. I've been out of there since 1962, except for occasional visits

[RC]

2. I did better than that.

I left in 1959 and have not been back except for occasional visits too.

Of course being so old that I remember when dirt was clean probably helped with leaving sooner.

[onyourleft]

10. We left in...

...1990, returned for one year, remembered why we left to begin with and came back to New Hampshire. I lived most of my life there until my mid 40s and I'm now very late 60s. We won't return by choice.

[Logical]

3. I live in this right wing nut state. Hard to believe not long ago we had a female Democratic Gov. nt

[Liberalagogo]

4. Kinda ironic that

that state has a town named Liberal. Would've thought they'd have burned it to the ground by now.

[Demeter]

6. or spontaneously combusted!

[lastlib]

8. The Koch brothers may be working on that.............

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. This is what happens when the tea party takes over a state.

[erronis]

7. There was plenty of regressives in KS back in the 60's

I went to KU (Lawrence) a liberal pimple on the plains back in the 60's - early 70's. The politics of the state were plenty right-wing way back then - didn't need to be called TeeBuggers or anything. KU had its campus occupied by the National Guard and a couple (I believe) of students were gunned down.

However, whenever I met a plain-old Kansan they were almost invariably friendly and helpful. It was just, then and now, the politicians and religious zealots who thought they could make their $$s by being hateful.

Hang in there, Tena!

[Sienna86]

9. The young man, Nick Rice, was shot by local police adjacent to campus

It happened in 1970 during an anti-war protest.

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. It's much worse now.