[The Horrible Esthete]

I dunno, your average voter from the Old South has to be pretty stupid, and they all go for Bush. In Alabama things are as bad as they could possibly in a first-world country, but people are so militant about taxes that they refuse to help themselves.

You seem to be reaching more and more with each post, Neil. First, what proof do you have to say something like "the average voter from the Old South has to be pretty stupid" If I were Steve Dame and you were a consevative, I would brand that as a racist statement (I know it isn't a racist statement, but it is a colossal overgeneralization). And to solidify your point you make another harsh overgeneralization by singling out Alabama and saying things there are "as bad as they could possibly in a first-world country". They might be poor as dirt, Neil but they are free....free to vote, free to work, free to preserve their culture and practise the faith they choose.

And how do you explain the Mountain West? Are they "stupid" too? Because it's a Bush ® stronghold as well. And I think, as far as the regional mentality goes, westerners would be indignant if they were so carelessly branded with that tag.

Yeah, Californians aren't vain, image-obsessed, or at all 'phony' either, I guess. No, they're cream of the cerebral crop, right?