[Vision2020] North Idaho's image problem

[Dan Carscallen]

Shoot, Carl, I have a hard enough time explaining to my friends across
the country that no, I do not grow spuds for a living.

DC

-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Carl Westberg
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 11:19 AM
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] North Idaho's image problem


Forgive my late foray into the Confederate flag-Chamber of Commerce
flap, 
I've been on vacation.  A few years ago, I was visiting a friend in the 
Asheville area of North Carolina.  At a museum in a little town called 
Brevard, I told the curator I was from north Idaho.  I was immediately 
assailed with questions about white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and 
neo-Confederates.  I did my part as an ambassador of our beautiful neck
of 
the woods, and assured him that it was an assemblage of a handful of
idiots 
who in no way represented the majority of Idaho residents.  Given the 
waning, but still active perception of this area as a haven for the
Richard 
Butlers of the world, I can only say as a Moscow resident that a Chamber
of 
Commerce presentation featuring the image of the Confederate flag is 
impolitic at best.  I'm feeling cranky, anyway.  I discovered over the 
weekend that at least three members of my extended clan
are.....Republicans. 
  I've been assured by my support group that Republicans happen in the
best 
of families.

 

 

                                                          Carl Westberg
Jr.

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