To the Editor:
I live in Arkansas, a very beautiful, historic and rural state. I don't think that we have many covered bridges, though.
But we do have more than 85 Wal-Mart stores, yet we are greener than green, a beautiful state with camping and hiking, fishing and hunting, canoeing and white-water rafting.
Yet there is no "legion of yellow smiley faces," and our citizens aren't denied the opportunity of buying $10 jeans at one of those Wal-Marts. While Vermont may have some rich refugees from Boston and New York with their stock portfolios, their knitting and The New York Times, we in Arkansas do not.
Surely you feign in oozing concern for poor Vermont. Come off it, you guys; that air is awfully thin up there where you look down on the rest of us west of the Hudson and write stuff like "An Endangered State" (editorial, May 26). Give me a break!
THOMAS E. WILLIAMS
Rogers, Ark., May 27, 2004