text: It doesn't matter than illegal immigrants are paying taxes, because that input is negatively qualified by the huge percentage of them receiving financial assistance from the government.
  
  Rural voters do not have "fears."   They have seen the effect of 11-15 million low skilled illegal alien workers dumped on the rural economy, as well as the effect of corporations who export their industries to other, cheaper, nations.
  
  Btw MSW, glad to hear you own two homes in different states.   Professional Catholicism is a wonderfully lucrative career.