One thing Americans on the east and west coasts tend to forget is that they are not the majority. The majority of Americans are still semi-rural mid-western high school graduates who take their news from tv and seldom discuss it with their friends. Except for sports. Many are willfully ignorant and dogmatically religious. WC Fields once said " 'My country right or wrong' is like 'My mother, drunk or sober' ". Much of middle America misses the joke.