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Signs of the times, May 17, 2009
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Well I wasn't exactly expecting a verbal shot at Baltimore City while driving my two children around on Sunday morning, but found one. I went back later in the evening and caught this snapshot of the sentiment of Bay Country Rentals in Reisterstown. There is no prominent witty church sign in old town Reisterstown offering puns, ironic remarks or existential wisdom; Bay Country's sign comes pretty close.
Reisterstown, where I live, my children live, my ex-wife lives, my parents live, has never really struck me in any particular way. My parents moved here from Annapolis in 1979; I attended Timber Grove Elementary and my parents have lived here ever since, if you count the Reisterstown Zip Code exclave just over the railroad tracks near Finksburg as part of the town. Reisterstown is about as far as it gets before you have to stop calling it "suburban" and start calling it "country," going west or north.
Reisterstown now has some of the social disorder and crime for which the City is infamous. While it's not exactly like the corner of Fulton and Monroe in West Baltimore's Sandtown neighborhood, Reisterstown does have more than its share of apartment complexes that have or need an assertive police presence. Yet Reisterstown, or at least the ZIP Code, has some of the wealthiest, most beautiful estates in all of Maryland, including much of the Worthington Valley, the Hunt Cup set, Cal Ripken's house, etc.. Three congressional districts merge here; Roscoe Bartlett, Elijah Cummings or John Sarbanes.
Politically, Reisterstown leans Democratic but it's the least Democratic part of District 11 which borders Randallstown and includes most of Owings Mills and Pikesville. It's the sort of suburb that may be ripe for a returned Governor Ehrlich seeking a rematch against the incumbent and former City mayor Martin O'Malley. Were I to bet today on the 2010 election, I would bet on an Ehrlich win in this ostensibly Blue state, driven in part by the sentiments like those expressed by Bay Country Rentals above against the former City mayor.
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