Thanks for deleting my comment

It makes me happy. as I’ve said before, it’s your site and you can run it as you like. However, when you delete a comment you don’t agree with, it only shows that that comment was so solid and correct, you realized you couldn’t refute it… you could only bury it.

So I’ll put my comment here.

Standing Cheese recently wrote an entry about the Baltimore bus beating incident. Berlow’s Freak Show comes along and takes a quote from the article completely out of context (and without properly noting his editing of the comment I might add) and posts the following:

Actually, Maryland is the richest state in America, recently edging out New Jersey for the top spot.

I suspect that Baltimore city blacks don’t benefit as much as suburban whites from Maryland having the highest median income in the nation.

Maryland has a wonderful public library system. Also, the proximity to the Nation’s Capital shouldn’t be overlooked. All of DC is on the Maryland side of the Potomac River, since Virginia took its half back around the time of the Civil War.

All I said in response was that Prince Georges County alone skews any ‘wealth’ statistics for the entire state. Have you been to Western Maryland Lately? The Eastern Shore? Definitely not the richest areas of America. I’m really not sure what caused him to remove my comment (as well as one from another commenter) but I do know it was posted after I wrote it only to have it disappear later.

In any case, I think it’s pretty safe to say that the I-95 corridor represents most of the wealth in the state of Maryland. Maryland is much, much more than that.