Whose Views?

Disclaimer: The viewpoints expressed in the following quotations are the singular viewpoints of the individuals who expressed them. My recording them is not an attempt to characterize regions definitively, but simply to note various opinions I've encountered. It is my plan to make this a recurring post format.

"The city that doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up."
-40-year-old Mainard/New Mexican, on Silver City, N.M.

"We used to kick sand at the camera crews that came into Laguna -- it's not like the show at all, it's just a chill surfing town, and now these tourists come in looking to see drunk 17-year-old girls act stupid."
-19-year-old SoCal surfer, on MTV's defilement of Laguna Beach

"Everyone else is idiots."
-Old man in cowboy hat, on Austin as Texas's last remaining democratic stronghold

"You know what the cyclists say? It's a touch of heaven."
-Park ranger correctly describing Texas's Davis Mountains, training grounds of Lance Armstrong

"If God were to give the world an enema, he'd give Amarillo, Texas, a long, hard look."
-Man at restaurant in La Mesilla, N.M.

"His wife didn't say she loved him the whole time they lived there."
-Same man, on Farmington, N.M.