In a message dated Thu, 30 May 2002 11:09:06 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Jim Elwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>At 02:54 AM 30 May 2002 -0700, Harry Wyeth wrote: >I am not surprised about Idaho reverting to ifp in highway design. Idaho is the most >conservative state in the nation in many ways. The state legislature is something >like 80 % Republican. Jim: >I think you folks make a mistake by equating liberal = pro-metric and conservative = >anti-metric. While there may be some weak correlation at the extreme anti-metric end >(meaning that rabid anti-metricationists may generally be nationalistic which may >mean politically conservative), in general I doubt there is much correlation at all. > ... Good points. But some of us may have been led down that path of thought by noting that "(R)" usually follows the names of legislators who have put through most of the anti-metric legislation -- especially that zinger in TEA-21 that caused all this highway construction reversion nonsense. Carleton
