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CC: Idaho Ain’t What It Used To Be

Chris Carlson of The Carlson Chronicles is glad that the slogan proposed for Idaho a few years back, “Idaho Is What America Was,” never caught on. Acknowledging the natural beauty and recreation of our state, he writes: ” Rather than looking back at a mythic place and time that never was, one might as well project ahead and ask if Idaho has become what a small demographically declining slice of the nation would like America to be: narrow-minded, self-centered, almost all white, intolerant, homophobic, anti-intellectual, litmus testing, teacher deprecating, anti-union, tax-dodging, flag-waving, anti-immigrant, head-in-the-sand, gun-toting, allegedly Christian believing but anti-Christian acting, paranoid, fear-mongering, hate-the government, pro-unregulated business, survival of the fittest, subsidize the rich because it trickles down, my way or the highway strict Constitutional constructionists most of whom call themselves Republicans?” More here.

Question: What would you say the slogan for Idaho should be today?

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog