Reply #2: Okay, but how did we get to this state of affairs in which Repubs

[BurtWorm]

are permitted to openly mock certain American states and cities--I mean, let's be real, it's Massachusetts that they consistently denigrate. (No doubt it's rooted in the "Don't blame me I'm from Massachusetts" past, this Republican disgust for MA.) But they also created an ad tearing into Vermonters when Howard Dean was a threat. They openly bait their rube base's fear of the Enlightened East. But if Democrats were to mock Republican strongholds--which are actually nice, big fat targets worthy of being mocked--we'd never hear the end of it!