KS

i love kansas. and not for any fake loyalty reasons. i love the flint hills. i love the trees, the lakes, the land that goes on forever with little to no sign of people. i love the green green green. i love walking for miles on beautiful green plants, near streams. i love the lizards that live here, the snakes, the birds, and seeing deer daily on the way to work. i love the empty stone farmhouses. i love the collapsing barns. i love the dogs who run loose in town.
and i guess its not just outdoor. i love the jails where they dont lock the cells and send inmates out for beers. i love the drug treatment people who will say whatever i ask, the pyschologists who find my clients incompetent if i say thats best. i love the small town mind that appreciates that i am a smoker. that understands i am different, in different ways than others who are different, but dont care as long as i am a decent person.
i love kansas, because as the book says people may vote against their interests based on passion, they only think in terms of midwest values. being a good neighbor, a good member of the community, even if you never talk to anyone. in helping when help is needed.