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2002-05-31
It most likely has nothing to do with conservative and/or
liberal and everything to do with doing it alone. I'm sure trying to do
things in metric with everyone else doing it in FFU gets a lot of flack.
So, it is back to the dark ages.
John
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, 2002-05-30 11:05
Subject: [USMA:20261] Re: Idaho
At 02:54 AM 30 May 2002 -0700, Harry Wyeth wrote:
I am not surprised about Idaho
reverting to ifp in highway design. Idaho is the most conservative
state in the nation in many ways. The state legislature is something
like 80 % Republican.
I think you folks make a mistake
by equating "liberal = pro-metric" and "conservative = anti-metric." While
there may be some weak correlation at the extreme anti-metric end (meaning
that rabid anti-metricationists may generally be nationalistic which may mean
politically conservative), in general I doubt there is much correlation at
all.
While individual examples don't prove much, I can tell you that,
of the two employees at QSI who really fight me on metrication, one is an
extremely conservative, homophobic Mormon, while the other is a California
tree-hugging, eco-nazi liberal.
Of of the six employees who have (or
will soon have) CMS or CAMS certifications, I am the only one who is
not a conservative, Republican, Mormon.
Finally, Utah is
probably more conservative than Idaho (in fact, Davis County, just north of
Salt Lake County, has the highest percentage of registered Republicans of any
county in the nation), yet I have seen little if any opposition to metrication
in this state, and our DOT just finished a $4 billion highway reconstruction,
done entirely in metric.
Jim Elwell
Electrical Engineer
Industrial manufacturing
manager
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
www.qsicorp.com
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