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The Left pretends to love "Middle-American" good old boys (and girls) like Keillor, Carville, Molly Ivins, etc. because even though they're from "flyover country", they "get it". What liberals fail to realize is that these "homegrown" clowns always believed that they were more socially conscious, more sophisticated and more intelligent than the boobs and rubes with whom they grew up. In other words, instead of being the homespun savants the Left-Coast sophisticates take them for, these prairie progressives are really nothing more than East-Coast liberal wannabes with a red-state regional accent. The contempt fot their less sophisticated and aware co-regionalists shows up their writings and the public utterances as well, albeit often disguised as "gentle" parody or seemingly sympathetic mockery.

I listened to Prairie Home Companion for a long time back when it was funny, but I don't recall ever hearing any mention of any character of a minority race in that middle American paradise.