http://promo.realestate.yahoo.com/americas-fastest-dying-cities.html

Who could have predicted that?  With the constant migration away from Ohio it seems their cities and corn fields are empty.  Eventually, there won’t be anyone migrating from Ohio - the evacuation will be complete.  It is no longer a great migration - it is a great evacuation.  Ohioans are fleeing their prized state like rats fleeing a sinking ship.

Thanks to Paul Nelson for pointing the article out.

There’s no way I could just walk by this one without taking a picture…  We complain about Ohioans all over this site for a variety of things.  It’s time to add “parking ability” to that list.  The bright Ohioan who decided that it would be a good idea to park almost in an intersection should get some sort of dumbass award (something more than just the parking ticket).  Click on the picture for a better view.

Weird story….but check it out.

Thanks to the folk at Live Oak Jams we now have a theme song. You can download it here.  Also, we’ve decided to start a battle of the bands.  If you think you can sing and you have an opinion you’d like to get across, send your stuff in.

Good news - looks like the Charleston RiverDogs have picked up on a good idea and are planning a “Go Back To Ohio Night” on June 25. They haven’t contacted me yet, but I’m going to find out if they need any help planning their event. I’m seeing at least a table with some t-shirts, bumper stickers, etc. for sale, and maybe a few free prizes handed out.

More info on their calendar for Wednesday, June 25.

Update as of 3/30: We are in! Looks like we’re going to be doing this in partnership with the Riverdogs. We’re working with them on plans to make the native voices heard. Looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun….. Still feel free to send in your ideas. And show up - we’re going to need all the support we can get to show these Ohioans where they need to go.

From Paulette:

I believe the south would be a better place without those who have migrated from Ohio. They should go back!

How apropos. Thanks Paulette; I couldn’t have said it better.

We just ordered a bunch of new stickers and we’re selling them for cheap. Check them out on the Buy Some Swag page.

Good news - just got some cartoon contributions.  They’re in the cartoons section.  Enjoy!

From Kristina:

I’ll be 20 years old this year and I was born in Charleston. My parents came here in the 60s’.I absolutely love this state and this town, I couldn’t imagine living anywhere else, but just in the past 6 or 7 years there has been such a change to my beautiful city! Its not as laid back as it once was. Where Sundays were a day of rest, a day to drink iced (sweet) tea, and to put all the hard work from the week on the back burner, they have now become just another day to clog up the roads and push the Sunday church drivers off the road(sometimes literally). I live on James Island/Folly beach; it’s a short bridge away from downtown Charleston. I’ve lived on this island all my life, and I’ll tell ya, James Island was like a small piece of heaven, it was definitely livin’ the island life, well… now just getting off James Island is a hassle! It’s because there is so much traffic, especially in the summer time, all these yankees come down here to crowd the beaches and the roads, the real locals have just about been pushed out. During the weekends and summer days, I stay off the roads for fear of getting pissed off by a tail-gatin’ northerner who thinks by riding my ass with a phone to his/her ear will somehow magically make traffic clear up or make me want to go any faster than I have to…oh, they must think that’s where the southern hospitality kicks in. No, not really, do that to me, and that’s probably where the redneck will kick in….which might explain the often heard comments from yankees doubting our southern hospitality…well, from the way I’ve seen the locals get pushed out, your probably just running into your own kind by now. Don’t doubt our southern hospitality…its here, but, you just have to give a little to get it…kind of like respect, you have to earn it, and coming down here and stirring things up and trying to change our ways…aint going to do it. I think, if you want to come down here and visit for a while, FINE, but chill out, kick back, grab some sweet tea and try it our way…isn’t that the reason why you would come down here? Apparently from all the complaints about South Carolina, it sure isn’t for the hot humid weather and mosquitoes. I mean, there must of been a reason to leave your northern state? Who would leave if it were so wonderful up there and so awful down here? So whatever reason it is that made you leave, don’t bring that down here…and if you cant seem to get it right, then go home. SIMPLE! Also, if you HAD to move down here against your will, and its just SOOOO terrible for you…I guess it’ll just make that time when you do go home much better…for the both of us. So now for myself and my family, we are looking to move off James Island to a smaller town a few hours south of Charleston…which is a shame, because even though it’s the over crowding of out-of-state rude, fast paced Northerners pushing my family off the island, its still a place that when looked at beyond the traffic and un-invited guests, has some small town charm left to it. So I guess the island I wanted to spend my entire life on, the place I was SO proud to say I was born and raised, will be the island and I put my tail-lights to.

Thanks Kristina. I grew up on James Island as well, and the changes I’ve seen have been enormous and overwhelming. It’s been sad to see my little island get so crowded over the years.

I am from Ohio and I had no choice but to move here. I had to investigate how humidity and mosquitoes are affecting the drastically declining intellect of South Carolina offspring. Something must be done to save these poor children. Perhaps if enough New Englanders and Ohioans continue to offer up their blood to these insects there will be a balance that doesn’t isolate the South Carolina offspring from the rest of American society. Godspeed for the influx!

We understand why you have no mosquitoes in Ohio. Everyone knows that mosquitoes thrive in and around water, and we also know that NOTHING survives in the polluted waters of Ohio. The Cuyahoga river, what a beautiful bonfire.