>In the first few days following 9-11, weren't there a number of reprisals
>against Sikhs in NYC? From the accounts I recall, some people in the city
>quite vividly exercised their revenge against anything taliban-looking.
>Kind of xenophobic, don't you think? Other than for taking a cheapshot at
>the heartland, I don't see any important insight coming from dumping the
>burden of misguided vengenace on rural America alone. Kind of suprised
>Doug, you're usually the person I count on to eschew reflexive leftish
>sentiments, such as "blame it on the revenge-hungry hicks," and sift out
>an opinion based on reason and evidence instead.
Of course there were incidents, ugly and shameful ones. I'm talking about prevailing tendencies, however, as revealed by polls and voting patterns. But they're also reinforced by the kinds of conversations i've had and overheard in NYC and elsewhere. Surely you don't think the war on Iraq wasn't more popular in the midwest and south (and in suburbs and rural ares) than it was in New York and other metro areas.
Doug