>I think Joseph has this one right. I was surprised to see how
>quickly the champions of the urban versus rural took on the mantle
>of 'tax-payers' - all conflict between social classes in cities
>overshadowed by the more urgent issue of geographical equity, and
>the most important issue was the control of the federal budget.
Not to mention the very strange need, from avowed antinationalists, to be thought of as a "real Americans."