There will be great relief in the Hawkeye State after tomorrow with the general population. The media will have left the every one of 99 counties as will the presidential candidates and their minions.
Fox ran a segment this morning, 'a man on the street', with Fox's Steve Doocey, questioning New Yorkers about Iowa. You might already imagine the questioning. Doocey held up an identifying map. Most of those questioned selected Idaho. Of course, these are the same people who confused the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
I'll present one significant bit of information to you that best explains my great affinity for the State of my birth. Iowa leads the nation, the United States of America, with a literacy rate of 99%. California, New York and the other egghead States weren't even close. It must have something to do with the water; that or a good educational system.
We usually keep that bit of info on the QT; don't want to embarrass the other 49. I've always told people two things happened when I moved from Iowa to Ohio. The intelligence quotients of both states went up dramatically.
A lot of famous folks, as in every other geographic area, came from my State. John Wayne is one of the most famous of all. I like to think one of the most beautiful actresses of all-time came from Iowa, Denison, to be exact. Her name was Donna Belle Mullenger but you all know her as Donna Reed.
She was hot before hot was in vogue.
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