I think this thread is petering out.It has been an education, in as much as it has shown , as surely as any gallup poll , that the great majority of Americans are good folks. It is obvious that ordinary decent Americans are like me [in one respect at least]---they cannot abide arrogance being displayed by one of their own. For the record, arrogant Americans/Germans/French/Canadians don't much move me one way or the other; being a product of Caledonia,arrogant Scots break my heart---and they exist, too. [I am NOT being facetious about Murray's romanticising!!]