Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Indian enclave satellite images
Date: Jun 25, 2005 @ 20:48
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
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> Mike wrote:hahahaha
>
> > hey wait
> > how about us folk from nonbackward american rural
> > areas
> >
> > dont you wonder if we wonder
> >
> > on cream hill
> > we have cows but cable & satellite too
> > & are at least 14 miles from even the most minor
> > market towns
>
> The population density in rural Connecticut is
> considerably higher than in rural
> Louisiana. In fact, the 2000 population density of
> your county was 198 people
> per square mile. In my parish, it was 39. The
> largest "minor market town"
> within 14 miles of you is Torrington, population
> 35,202. Leesville, seven miles
> from me, has a population of 6,753. I'd have to go
> 60 miles to find a city to
> match Torrington. If Torrington were a Louisiana
> municipality, it would be the
> tenth largest in the state. If Litchfield County
> were a Louisiana parish, it
> would be the eighth most densely populated out of
> 64. That makes y'all
> practically "city folk" by Louisiana standards--even
> if you do have cattle. :-)
>
> If that makes this "backward rural America," so be
> it.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA