Thank you. That's mighty white of you. ;^)
But I really am nothing at all like what the DUmmies would regard as a stereotypical redneck freeper. I was born and raised in the city of Chicago--in the city. I'm a northern, urban, museum-and-coffeeshop kind of guy. I'm an academic--way overeducated, with several advanced degrees, have studied seven languages, that sort of thing. I don't watch Fox News much. I've never hunted, I've never used a gun, I don't have a pickup truck, don't wear a ballcap, I hate country music, and I think of St. Louis, where I live now, as the Deep South.
The reason why I'm a freeper is that I believe our federal government should follow the Constitution. I believe in limited government and private charity.
Oh, I guess there is one point in which I would fit the DUmmies' image of us. I am a Christian. But I am a liturgical, sacramental Lutheran, rather than a Baptist/fundie type, so that doesn't fit either.
And, last but not least, a pun-tificator extraordinaire!
Remember, it was a Baptist preacher, Elijah Craig, who invented Bourbon.