You said it so well that I’m just going to link your post up on my blog. 🙂
This is such Big Brother behavior that I haven’t even been able to sort my feelings about it out. Thanks for being so clear on it.
I’m ashamed to admit that my mother’s side of the family comes straight from the heart of SD. Of course, they left in the 30s because being a Democrat in SD in the 30s was akin to being a leper in Jerusalem at Passover.