From one stereotype to another (Gene Lyons)

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This is nothing new. I’ll probably never get over seeing my wife patronized to her face by New England academics who seemed to assume that a cute Southern girl must be a dumb bigot. Ironically, Diane was then a big fan of the Arkansas proverb, “Thank God for Mississippi,” on the grounds that everything embarrassing about Arkansas was doubly so about its neighbor.

Like most Arkansans, she wasn’t crazy about Texas, either. (It’s a David vs. Goliath thing. ) How much that had to do with Bush’s relatively weaker performance here is impossible to know. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

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