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...short, some of our compatriots—not least of all the president—seek to reduce us to a caricature, a stereotype as ugly and shallow as the toothless Mississippi hillbilly. We’re blasted for being so far from the mainstream that we’re standing on the “Left Bank” with John Kerry, playing accordions and looking French. But this belies the truth...
...coastal America know surprisingly little about what life is like for those in living in Kansas and Mississippi. NASCAR may be the biggest spectator sport in the country but most of us here at Harvard—the intellectual center of Blue America—probably couldn’t name a single driver. Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins have sold over 40 million novels on the Apocalypse, but if these two guys walked into the Coop, they’d walk in entirely unnoticed. Country albums might sell the most records every year, but if their life depended...
...have thousands of people lined up for 500 jobs [at a new supercenter] tells you that people will improve their lives when they can. They will join a company that has good benefits, that pays better and that provides opportunity for promotion. You could find yourself pushing carts in Mississippi and then find yourself managing in Germany...
...among the majority of Americans who live in blue zones like New York and California or red ones like Texas and Mississippi, you probably have heard little more from the campaigns than the distant rumble of artillery--the flicker of a campaign ad as you flip from TLC to the Golf Channel, a quick glimpse of a candidate who is in the area to raise some money. But if you live in Ohio or Wisconsin or Florida or Pennsylvania, you are getting more attention from the presidential campaigns than you would expect in a hotly contested school-board race...
...emergence of Cornell’s stalwart defense can be attributed in part to first-year coach Jim Knowles, a former All-Ivy league defensive end for the Big Red. He comes to Cornell this fall after a 2003 campaign with the University of Mississippi, where he coached the linebackers unit for the nation’s 14th-ranked run defense. Knowles has brought similar success to Ithaca, revamping a defense that gave up over 200 yards rushing per game...