Mo' BoBo

What, precisely, are we supposed to learn from news articles like the one discussed below? That the deeper we go into the "heartland," the closer we get to the "real" America? And that "real" Americans love George Bush?

Last time I checked, the pivotal events in early American history happened not in places like Randolph, Utah but in Lexington, Concord, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Trenton and Valley Forge. In blue America, for the most part. So why are members of a religious minority that was once fiercely anti-American, concentrated largely in a single state far from the country's birthplace, presented as Ur-Americans? Wouldn't Quakers be more representative?

Oh, wait...Quakers are anti-war and largely anti-Bush. Doesn't fit the meme.