"you made my point for me" I fail to see how... your <b>statement</b> was as follows: "i guess now you know why the farmers, concentrated in the red states, are totally republican as they have their hand in the till." <a href="http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=29491707" target="_blank">http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=29491707</a> there is a north/south/east/west arrow/arrows on the following map...pass over NYC...pass over a blue state/states <a href="http://farm.ewg.org/sites/farmbill2007/mappage.php?&lat=38.959408792454&lng=-97.3828125&z=5&type=Road%20Map" target="_blank">http://farm.ewg.org/sites/farmbill2007/mappage.php?&lat=38.959408792454&lng=-97.3828125&z=5&type=Road%20Map</a> you may wish to find one of those red state blue state maps to which show how a certain county voted... At any rate, your <b>statement</b> was incorrect/flawed... SL