On 12/31/17 12:27 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 21:09:53 -0500, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 12/30/17 7:30 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 15:12:35 -0500 (EST), justan wrote:

Wrote in message:
On 30 Dec 2017 15:41:38 GMT, Keyser Soze wrote:


Fraid not. In fact, it's difficult to find a snow shovel south of
the Mason/Dixon line.

More of your ignorance. Look up Masons and Dixons Line and get back to us
when you figure out its boundaries.

It is a common mistake. Most people do not know Md and DC are below
the Mason Dixon. In fact it really had little to do with the civil war
at all. It was to settle a property dispute 100 years earlier.
James Taylor and Mark Knopfler have a great song about it.
Beautiful guitar work
"Sailing to Philadelphia"


Actually , I remember crossing that line on I 81 in Md. Tracing
the line doesn't concern me. Southern Md. Is to me, as backward
as Appalachia.

Actually you passed it on the Pennsylvania state line with Maryland.

Southern Md is rapidly losing that rural character you remember as
they keep pushing the acceptable commute from DC farther out.
I am old enough to remember when they thought near in PG near where
the beltway is now was about as far as a DC commuter wanted to drive.
(or take a bus). The WM&A (Maryland) bus service stopped just the
other side of Oxon Hill road in Southlawn. DC Transit stopped at the
DC line and you were walking from there.
If you went any farther than that it was on a Greyhound.



There still are a lot of farms down here and on the other side of the
Pax River past Solomons.

Maryland ranks second in the nation in the percentage of residents with
grad degrees and third in the percentage of residents with undergrad
degrees.

Florida ranks 29th and 31st.

https://is.gd/eqoU8W

Maryland ranks fifth in median hourly wages. Florida isn't in the top 10.

Florida is more like Appalachia the Maryland.

So you have a lot of educated bureaucrats who choose to live away from
DC, What's your point?
I bet any real farmers down there do not figure in those statistics
but I bet most of them are just "tax farmers" growing deductions and
hiding their land from the tax collector by being zoned AG.
All you are doing is making my point that Southern Md has been
genrified by Citiots.


I wouldn't know what percentage of farmers down here have college
degrees, but if they are like farmers elsewhere, many have gone to aggie
schools to increase their knowledge and perfect their trade. As for the
percentage of "tax farmers," may their tribe increase. It is a useful
gimmick that keeps land from being turned into large subdivisions.
Speaking of farms, last week for the first time I took a back road from
near Annapolis to Waysons Corners instead of my usual route. Lovely
rural drive, old farm houses, et cetera.