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I've lived in Blue America (NYC, Chicago, and LA) and have been surrounded by the sort of people who this article's author claims to be. Every Thanksgiving, Christmas, you name it, ends up in an argument between me and the other guests. It's hard work being a Freeper in a limosine-liberal world. Beyond the obliviousness shown by the sort of people described as Blues toward the rest of America, the fact that these urban liberals are oblivious to the circumstances in their own back-yard is even more disturbing. OK, so maybe somebody has never been to Iowa, but these people don't even know what is going on in their own back-yards. I routinely challenge people like this in arguments to tell me what "check-day" is and to tell me what their personal observations have been in parts of their own city further than walking distance from some muffin shop. They can't because they have never been to a "bad" neighboorhood, or even a working class one in their own cities, and talked to "normal" people, let alone the "wilds" of the Rest Of America. They just sit around and expound upon the nature of evil as they see it, alowing themselves the luxury of not basing any of their thoughts on the way the world really is. Their ignorance and obliviousness never ceases to amaze me.