[conservativeharleyguy]

"... the salmon teriyaki with organic greens, or asparagus tempura and tuna sashimi? ...clearly it's some time since their diet consisted of ribs, tacos and pancakes".


I have a theory that the true divisions in our society can be identified by how one defines what one eats.

The more pretentious the dish (or what you name the dish), the more pretentious and elitist you are, and the further to the left your politics will be (i.e., do you eat a "tenderly sauteed, pistachio encrusted Tiger Prawn, with a mango chutney demi-glasse", or...., do you eat "shrimp"?).

If you eat the former, you're a flaming lib, if it's the latter, you're a regular guy/gal, and probably are more likely to be conservative.

Nowhere in pop culture/mass media have I seen a better example of that philosophy than here.

These young ladies love to dress up and pretend that they are suave, sophisticated, worldly, Yankee urbanites, so they have to eat accordingly.

But, like the true redneck bottle-blondes they are, they'll never outgrow their roots.

The proof of that is their inability to keep their mouths shut (like the drunken trailer-girls they are), and let those who actually know the subject handle the work.

And, as is typical, the irony of it has flown at breakneck speed over the head of the elitist snob that penned this article.

[Swiss]

So you are saying that the current Dixie Chick crowd and fans are the ones who order Roast Duck with Mango Salsa.

Someone should post the picture of the cavemen from the Geiko commericals with a subtitle "Dixie Chick fans"

[AzaleaCity5691]

I don't see why class has to be brought into a discussion such as this. I'm old money, but unlike the past two generations in my family, I don't actually think it's a sin to spend money. I grew up living well below what our means actually were, and my father did the same thing. When it came carnival time, no expense was spared, but if it wasn't the pre-Lenten season, basically, we lived damn near like paupers, compared to how I'm living now.

I have the money to dine at places where you'll drop 20 dollars on the glass of wine. It's not snobbery, it's not pretentiousness, it's that I have a personal taste for such items and I have the bankroll to back it up. One of the reasons that my father was so quick to become a Republican is because he had gained his political conciousness in the 1940s, when every damned word out of the Democrats mouth was, "little guys" vs. the Big Mules. We're not supposed to be concerned with issues of class or money, we're not for wealth redistribution, and that's why we're Republicans.

Rich people are not boogeyman, in actuality, most of the wealthy people in this country are Republican because they have earned their money, and they damned sure don't want the government telling them what to do with money they didn't help them make. Also, not all urbanites are Yankees, just urbanites in the North.