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@ SkyMike - not sure if you were being ironic - if so forgive me...

but you say: "those uneducated, baby factory, welfare gettin, illiterate, crap-music-listening-to, low class, useless loser Raider fans."

I hate to be the bearer of bad news: 1) you say "uneducated and illiterate." Even though the state of California has fallen in recent year - but the school system is generally ranked higher and in deed literacy rate is much higher than in Louisiana, Sorry, it's just true.

2) You say "low class" Sorry, the standard of living higher by most any measure is higher. Don't get me wrong I do so Love New Orleans - culture, music, generosity of spirit - but when you go off of measures like: access to certain goods (such as number of refrigerators per 1000 people), or measures of health such as life expectancy, or the ease by which people living in a time or place are able to satisfy their needs and/or wants, Louisiana ranks fairly low.

3) Baby Factory? Sorry man research it for yourself. You have nothing to brag of here. In fact, none of these are accusations I would hurl about willy nilly else you be in danger of destroying the very glass house you are protecting.

4). "Crap music listening to." It is true: Oakland's music scene does not hold a candle to New Orleans. However her Jazz scene is pretty good. Yoshi's is considered one of the best Jazz clubs in the world. It is largely becaus a large bulk of the population is from Louisiana. They (myself included) carried our musical tastes with us. SO i short - if we in Oakland, CA listen to crap music it may very well be because we brought it with us.

I think this may be a case of the pot calling the kettle black. in this case lets hope it is black and gold and not black and silver.

Now, back to football. Sorry, as someone who has lived in both places I just couldn't let that go.

Yours, a fellow Saints fan.

"it is from the lost, your culture has always been found." - chandler (9th ward new orleans #2)