On Monday, July 8, 2013 2:33:46 PM UTC-4, F.O.A.D. wrote:

While traveling the I-95 corridor, we gas up and stop for meals and

sometimes lodging just about everywhere *except* South Carolina. I

wouldn't spend a dime in Texas, either.

As I said, for you, politics trumps compassion. You want to think you're hurting those state governments. You don't give a damn about the people and communities struggling to make it, depending on the very businesses you don't patronize.

It defines you. A smug, arrogant, and shortsighted liberal.