At 08:42 AM 8/31/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Ben Wirtschafter, a Democratic candidate for the state Assembly who is
>Jewish, says he has been dismissed out of hand by some voters simply
>because of his faith, including just a few weeks earlier, at a local fair.
>"I was handing out literature. They wa
The Chico article is fairly accurate as far as it goes. Chico is in the middle
of Butte County, which is one of the poorest and probably the most conservative
in all of California. The hills around Oroville are filled with meth labs and
descendants of poor Southerners, who came to the area to wo
Anti-Semite Patrol
A graffiti incident in Chico, Calif., confirms our worst fears about rural
America. Or was it just some kid's prank?
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By Anthony York
Aug. 31, 2000 | CHICO, Calif. -- North of Sacramento, Calif., the state
highway shoots through a series of small towns,
