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Originally posted by Jeff Higgins
My recent cross-country trip with my son, right through the heart of rural America, served to reinforce this point of view for me. The behavior you mention, the behavior exemplified in these commercials, exists almost exclusively in Big City America. Folks in the rural areas of America are still far more polite to each other, and far less likely to engage in this kind of behavior.
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Jeff - you are very right. More urbanites get on a plane for a weekend in Mexico or Europe than actually get in a car and see what is really going on out there in America. I live in New York City - the biggest, baddest, smelliest, angriest, most rushed place on this continent. But it is not America. It is like a Hong Kong, a treaty port. The Urban hipsters sit in 4 hour traffic jambs to drive out to the Hamptons, Madison Avenue nit-wits trying to sell stuff and the media big-wigs and all the rest do not understand this.. They are trying to take their reality and make it America's, but it is not.
Supe - Man, you need to take a road trip. You will be surprised what you find.