Western Pennsylvania

[ClydeR]

McCain paid quite a compliment to people in western Pennsylvania this week.


I couldn't agree with you more than the fact that western Pennsylvania is the most patriotic, most God-loving, most patriotic part of America.

I've never been to Pennsylvania, because I avoid going north of the Mason-Dixon Line, but it sounds like a pretty nice place. Pittsburgh is there, I believe.

If one of you is from western Pennsylvania, I wonder if you will confirm that McCain is right that it is the most patriotic and God-loving part of the country.

[Moist Happenings]

McCain paid quite a compliment to people in western Pennsylvania this week.



I've never been to Pennsylvania, because I avoid going north of the Mason-Dixon Line, but it sounds like a pretty nice place. Pittsburgh is there, I believe.

If one of you is from western Pennsylvania, I wonder if you will confirm that McCain is right that it is the most patriotic and God-loving part of the country.

Eastern Pennsylvania calls it Pennsyltucky. The people there aren't that much different than the people in the South in a lot of ways. The general pace of life is significantly slower than in the more metropolitan areas (Pittsburgh is excluded here), it has more of a country feel to it. I went to both the Hazleton Campus and the U Park Campus of Penn State for a while, and comparing east to west in Pennsylvania is really apples and oranges. I grew up and live now about 20 minutes from Philadelphia, so I spent a lot of time in eastern PA. They're really two different worlds.

I wouldn't necessarily call it the most Patriotic part of America, but it's definitely more god oriented than you find in New York and New Jersey. It's closer to a place like Georgia.

[Ravenstorm]

Why are you responding to him as if he's serious?

No, wait...

Why are you responding to me as if I'm serious?

No, wait. I'm not Clyde. Or am I?

Only the Shadow knows.

[Moist Happenings]

Meh. I didn't respond to prove or disprove something McCain said. I just figured since the question was posed what sort of place western Pennsylvania was, I'd give my input.

[Gan]

I've been to western Pennsylvania. The company I worked for a while back was based out of Pittsburgh.

Nice people there.

[ElanthianSiren]

heh...I lived in W PA (treasure lake) from 2002-2004.

Guy down the street was running a kiddie porn business and the guy at the other end of the lake was running a meth lab. Additionally, it's the type of place you see chicks running around in shirts that say things like "Abortion is murder!" complete with pic of dead fetus. When you ask them WTF they're talking about, they start quoting bible on you and launch into a side tangent about homosexuals. At the time I lived there, you literally couldn't get fiber optic or dsl. Dial up connecting in at 14.4 on a good day or nothing (blech). Pennsyltucky is totally fitting. I despised that place.

Long live SEPA.

[Moist Happenings]

I've been to western Pennsylvania. The company I worked for a while back was based out of Pittsburgh.

Nice people there.

Agreed.

I have western Pennsylvania to thank for my love of football. I was never particularly interested in it growing up. My high school didn't have football because in the 50s there was a fatality and it was taken out. My first semester at Penn State I lived in Mifflin Hall, which if you're familiar with the town you'll know isn't really right next to the Stadium. During the first game I figured "Okay, got the dorm quiet, I'll get some work done.". Yeah. Wrong. You can't hear yourself think over the roar of the stadium. I was left with no choice but to go to the games, and a good old American beer drinking Nittany Lions/Steelers fan was born.

[B2]

Every time I've been through western PA it was ridiculously depressing. The first time I was driving back to Florida from NY and we stopped to see my friend's mom. She still lived in the house she grew up in, when it was a big mining and industry town.

...which it hasn't been in decades.

So while at one point it may have been a great place to live, now it's run down, dirty, and very depressing. There's NOTHING there. Why don't these people leave? You can't even find a can of paint to gussy up your dilapidated, creaking, leaky 5-bedroom was-once-nice house?

The second time was for a wedding in Meadeville. I flew across the country, rented a car, and drove through the Rust Belt to find this place. We went to the Penny Bar, which was about the only cool thing. We went on a mission to find some cheerwine...and I found SIX cheerwine vending machines, NONE OF WHICH had any cheerwine. No one knew what I was talking about when I asked them about it, either. I think I had to settle for red Cherokee, or whatever the offensive dr. pepper is called.

Anyway, I was too horrified that people lived in western PA to actually pay attention to the people living in western PA.

It actually makes me really happy to be in Lansing, MI.

[Moist Happenings]

They have some weird town names there too, even outside of the Amish "Blueballs" and "Intercourse" Pennsylvanias. One time I was driving home from U Park to Jersey. I think I was on Route 303 I think, where it winds up through the mountains in the northwest, and I saw a sign. "Jersey Shore exit 2 miles". I think to myself "Shit, maybe I'll try that. Might be a straight shot as opposed to weaving through the countryside".

Yeah. Jersey Shore is a tiny town in western Pennsylvania in the middle of nowhere. What the fuck?

[Tea & Strumpets]

They have some weird town names there too, even outside of the Amish "Blueballs" and "Intercourse" Pennsylvanias.

You're probably thinking of Bluebell.

[Moist Happenings]

You're probably thinking of Bluebell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ball,_Lancaster_County,_Pennsylvania

Nah, there are a lot of really sexually oriented town names in Amish country.

Edited to add:

On that note, if anyone is ever out in Lancaster County, and you're looking for a place to eat, at the Green Dragon Flea Market there's an Amish Buffet called The Schmorgasboard. It is absolutely the most awesome country food you will ever eat.

[Warriorbird]

As a general note... Cheerwine is from North Carolina.

[Parkbandit]

Whatever McCain said about western PA people is probably better than what Jack Murtha said.. calling them all racists and rednecks.

:shrug:

[TheEschaton]

The best part is that John McCain flubbed, and before he said the statement in the OP, said, "I couldn't agree with him more!" (after talking about Murtha's statement).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnE-YJ---GI

-TheE-

[ElanthianSiren]

Jack Murtha said.. calling them all racists and rednecks.

if it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck... W. PA pretty much exudes hick. Cleaving the state down the middle would be a huge blessing for the rest of us.

SEPA>NEPA>NWPA never lived in SW pa. Grew up in NEPA. Those people are seriously nice and perogies and balinnis (potato pancakes) may be the awesomest conconctions ever conceived of (once every 15 years). Mmmm.

[Anebriated]

Neff where abouts are you? Im currently living in west chester which is like 30 minutes west of philly but i spent the last 2 years living center city by the art museum.

GF is from NEPA so I know that area pretty well. Youre all dead on with your Pennsyltucky comments. Not a bad area though.

[Parkbandit]

if it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck... W. PA pretty much exudes hick. Cleaving the state down the middle would be a huge blessing for the rest of us.

SEPA>NEPA>NWPA never lived in SW pa. Grew up in NEPA. Those people are seriously nice and perogies and balinnis (potato pancakes) may be the awesomest conconctions ever conceived of (once every 15 years). Mmmm.


Hopefully, those white, racist rednecks will tell Murtha to fuck off and not re-elect him.

[Moist Happenings]

Neff where abouts are you? Im currently living in west chester which is like 30 minutes west of philly but i spent the last 2 years living center city by the art museum.

GF is from NEPA so I know that area pretty well. Youre all dead on with your Pennsyltucky comments. Not a bad area though.

Right at the moment I'm in Florida, but I have an apartment right on the Delaware River in Jersey near Princeton/Trenton. Titusville's the town. About a two minute walk from Washington's Crossing State Park.

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

Hopefully, those white, racist rednecks will be too busy drinking $5 twelve-packs and flirting heavily with their first cousins to actually get out to the polls.

I couldn't agree more.

[Parkbandit]

I am an idiot.

Agreed

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

Agreed

:clap:

One of these days you just may post something intentionally amusing.