[lentulusgracchus]

Of course not -- he's an East Coast RiNO deluxe. I picked him to show how pervasive these anti-American, anti-social-conservative attitudes are among East Coast Republicans.

My theory is that there is a true social divide across the Appalachians; historian T.R. Fehrenbach, in Lone Star, his history of Texas, referred to Atlantic Slope (East Coast) folks as the "Deferential Society", inasmuch as they had retained a lot of the bowing-and-scraping attitudes of the Old World. In other words, the people who stayed on the East Coast and didn't cross the mountains never fully acclimated to America but remained substantially European in their attitudes about everything.

And they patronize the hell out of us, and I'm about done with them.

Hope this helps.

[GraceG]

Your theory has nailed it..... you should write a book or talk to someone who does.