Posted by
Ed Lilly on Saturday, May 10, 2008 8:46:53 AM
Or so the catchy tune promoting my native state taught me years ago. Turns out, it may not be only Hoosiers who take this view. Here's a description from Rashawn Biddle of the American Spectator that I never thought I would hear applied to the place of my birth (h/t Instapundit):
"The biggest mistake by Clinton was in presuming that Indiana was like just another Rust Belt state. The reality is that it is a microcosm of the entire nation, with the almost all the same socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. In some ways, its combination of rural and urban gives it more of a resemblance to nearby Illinois or New York than Ohio or Iowa. "
Unfortunately for those who are tied up in party politics, my understanding is that President Bush's good friend Mitch Daniels hasn't exactly won the hearts and minds of Hoosier Republicans. Not sure what, if anything, that means for the fall elections, but there it is.