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Friday, September 12, 2008 10:05 AM
Original article: What small-town America is saying about Obama

A Smalltown Refugee's Take on Smalltown "Values"

Cathy Arnst, a contributor to BusinessWeek's Working Parents blog, says she grew up in a town even smaller than Sarah Palin’s, a burg of 2,000 people in the Allegheny Mountains—an area of New York State officially classified as part of Appalachia.

She eloquently writes about life among "intolerant, close-minded and hypocritical" smalltownsfolk here: http://www.businessweek.com/careers/workingparents/blog/archives/2008/09/proud_to_be_an.html

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