I'm sorry guys...

[Can o Beans]

I am SO embarrassed right now to be from Oklahoma. I am truly sorry my state is chock-full of stupid people.

Sorry
Sorry
Sorry

[okieinpain]

1. HEY!!! watch it fella.

[Can o Beans]

3. well...

Obviously, I exclude the seemingly 3.478% of us that have it right...I was referring to the people that elected Tom Coburn, and passed a marriage definition with 99.99999997% in favor or something like that.

[Jack_Dawson]

Why what happened NOW?

C'mon Okies...surprise me.

[Bertha Venation]

2. Your state is also full of wonderful people and places.

Our friend Susan is an example. Nearly killed on 4/19/95 (she worked across the street from the Murrah Bldg), she's now a docent at the Memorial, not to mention one of the best people I know.

My father's family are from Oklahoma.

The first time I heard the din of cicadas, it was in Oklahoma.

I love Oklahoma and its people and its -- just everything.

[Can o Beans]

5. You're right - there are a few things

worth noting here.

But for every flicker of light I see, there are 24 dark thunderclouds.

[bullimiami]

4. i know there is one good person there. you.

and Im sure there are others.

Even the most liberal and enlightened of places has its share of dull cogs.
Oklahoma just has a slightly larger share than some others.

peace.

[OKNancy]

6. Someone once said in an article in Urban Tulsa

"What's good about Oklahoma is what is bad about Oklahoma"

If one looks at the people and not the politics, things are doing pretty good here. The religious right talks a good story, but as I look around, I see people living in harmony all over.

Here in Tulsa, there is a large gay community. The gay pride parade goes off every year without a hitch. People live together, unmarried, and no one says a thing. I have many bi-racial children at my school and there is nothing said.

It is a bi-polar place. People talk religion and right wing values, but in everyday life, I don't see that it has much influence.
Anyone watch Survivor? Scout from Suvivor lives openly with her partner in Stillwater Oklahoma. Not a word has been said about that and not a person really cares one way or the other.

It's almost as if there is the talk and then there is the real world.