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...what's not to like about Jeff Gordon? "He kind of looks gay," says Doris O'Bryant while selling $10 Fans Against Gordon T shirts outside the Talladega racetrack. The acronym is like something of an inside joke, and one suspects the wink it produces leads to an inevitable flatulence joke...
...shirt has a little sketch of Gordon's car upside down and the words THE WAY IT SHOULD BE. Just up the road, Doris' husband Todd is making a sale to a Missouri man who says, "He's a little cocky, but he's from the north...
...that is clearly a big part of it. NASCAR didn't go national until a Yankee became its star, and resentment is the breeze that keeps those rebel flags flying. "I'm not one of those redneck hillbillies," Todd O'Bryant says. "I just think Gordon needs to be a little more down to earth...
...object of this scorn walks into his trailer, where I'm waiting to put a magnifying glass on him, and says, "Hey, what's up?" in a slight Midwestern drawl. Gordon grew up in California, but his parents moved him to Indiana at 14 because he'd been racing midget cars since he was a five-year-old, and there was more action in Indiana...
...tell him I saw people selling Fans Against Gordon T shirts outside the stadium and stopped to talk to them, and he's curious to hear what they had to say. All the usual stuff, I tell him. He's too pretty for NASCAR. He's from the north. He's rich. He always wins. He married a gorgeous woman. If there is a more American urge than to want everything, it's to take down the guy who gets it. "All I can do is try to earn their respect by being who I am and doing what...