Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Ohio IS the Heart of it All!

I have recently been disproportionately annoyed by a song. Namely "Country Must Be Country Wide." The singer says he's country, and he sees a car pull up with Ohio plates and thinks the driver's lost, because apparently people from Ohio can't be country. He finds out different in the next verse, but I am still ticked. Why in the WORLD would he think that people from Ohio can't be country? We're OHIO!! Whatever you want brought, we can BRING it!! We have cities, symphonies, ballet, museums and zoos, and fine dining. We have the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But we also are the hosts for Jamboree In the Hills, a country music festival so big we've hosted practically every big country star in the history of ...ever, and people come clear from Hawaii to see it! We are coal miners and barge workers, steel mill workers, we have glass factories, we grow tomatoes for Campbell's soup, we grow Concord grapes for Welch's grape juice and jelly, we grow tons of corn and soy and lots of other stuff. Farmers, coal miners, fishing and deer hunting? SOUNDS country to me!! My school used to get the first day of deer season off! We go mudding 4-wheeling, fishing, camping. We have lakes, waterfalls, caves, rivers, and even a National Park. We have towns so small there are no traffic lights, and we also have Cleveland, Cincinatti, and Columbus. We have the best public library system in America (not the largest library, though). We have Cedar Point, which unless I'm wrong still has the tallest roller coaster in the world. We are the birthplace of aviation. Presidents Grant, Taft, Hayes, Harding, & Garfield all called Ohio home. Basically we kick ass and can do ANYTHING. We are Ohio, America's heartland, or, as our state slogan says, "The Heart of it ALL"

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