Reply #75: My hometown is an exit on a freeway.

[amandabeech]

Not a lot of the long haul trucks bring goods in except in the summer, when the local population swells from migrant farm laborers and tourists, and small trucks can't keep the Viking and the IGA full.

Trucks haul out quite a bit of the locally-grown fruit and vegetables once they are processed, because the railroad pulled out 20 years ago. There hasn't been a movie theater since 1965, and you can't buy a New York Times or anything other than the latest version of Boone's Farm.

There's cell phone service, but only along the freeway. Lots of people love the net, but most have dial-up connections still, so they're able to keep up on what's going on out there.

My town is the largest in the county at 2,000 and holding, and is the county seat.

Believe me, it is as rural as the towns that Obama is talking about.