>I defer to your indigenous credentials.
>Of course its all relative. I lived one year in Dallas, and found even the
>extremt right has deep populist roots with anti big government and anti big
>business sentiments based on rugged individuality.
Yes they do, but they do so from a region that would hardly be populated had it not been for decades of federal education, highway, water, agricultural, and military subsidies. Most of these clowns like Armey and Gramm have never held a private sector job of any consequence. Armey's first job in North Dakota was with the Rural Electrification Association; he went on to get degrees and teach at public universities. Then he went to Congress, where he's been drawing a federal paycheck since 1985. Very similar things can be said about Gramm, Tauzin, etc.
Doug