<p>Following President Bush's stunningly incoherent press conference, his media acolytes reintroduced one of their most useful fictions: the decadent, blue-state "Beltway-elite" vs. salt-of-the-earth, red-state "Real Americans." Based upon campaign electoral maps that colored Gore states in blue and Bush states red, it's a theme GOP imagineers have exploited since Newt Gingrich pronounced Democrats "enemies of normal Americans."</p>