[hillbilly]

Dad always told us boys that if we ever made friends ''outside of our circle'' we'd best keep church, politics, or our belief out of conversation or we'd end up losing so many that we'd return to ''our circle''. I had many friends outside my circle when I kept my thoughts to myself .. only talking about things localy where we are all raised and believe the same as thi' neighbor. Seems hard ass dad shot us strait on it. For example, Al Gore was raised very close by, .. but you'll seldom hear a local speak good of him, but there's folks outside of our circle that seem to support his BS.