The Real America

What is the real America? What makes a real American? What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhinoceros?

Which brings us to a quote from my favorite political website (except of course all the wonderful Liberal Coalition sites), the Daily Howler.

We think people are basically the same in all fifty states, and we think those states are all red white and blue. We find it amazing that Dem politicians-Barack Obama excepted-don't know enough to say so. We think Massachusetts is a great state-and we think Alabama is a great state too. We think the president's endless, sneering attacks on Massachusetts were a sign of his low, inept character. And we think those attacks played hard on foolish voter prejudice-voter prejudice that ought to be challenged. And oh yeah-we think the president shows his "contempt" for red-state voters when he panders to them in this way.

He also covers the not so-surprising fact that the blue states are generally the net losers in the budget games. In other words, if you take those states and work out the ratio of dollars contributed in taxes to dollars received within the state--well, a lot of red states are getting more than they are giving and a lot of blue states are giving more than they are getting. Don't know exactly what that means.