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Old May 24th 04, 05:33 AM
Paul Elliot
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Emmanuel Gustin wrote:

"Ed Rasimus" wrote in message
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You need to broaden your circle of friends. Go back to the 2000
elections and check the "red states and blue states". Visit some of
the 40 red states of what we like to call "the Heartland" of America.



Frankly, considering the treatment "Homeland Security"
now is planning to give to foreign visitors, which includes
photographing, fingerprinting, and writing down what we
had for lunch on the aircraft ("did not have pork -- possible
terrorist"), I am not exactly looking forward to travelling to
the USA again. (I probably can't avoid it.) Not that I can
otherwise complain about the hospitality of Americans;
as an inhabitant of "Old Europe" at its oldest, I have never
encountered any hostility.



Avoid E. Coast universities, upscale big city yuppie neighborhoods and
welfare-dependent inner city areas. Meet farmers, business owners,
entrepreneurs, managers, supervisors, and military folks (particularly
seek out some Vietnam vets like officers or ex-POWs).



I wasn't claiming to wide statistics, nor citing any "evidence."
I was just making a personal observation.

As for the statistics, most of the people I met in the USA probably
fall in the "business owners, entrepreneurs, managers, supervisors"
category, even if they had an university education; people with
purely academic jobs were a minority.



The President still holds a greater than 60% approval rating



Latest polls give figures well below 50%, AFAIK.



Well then, you're most certainly welcome to stay home! If you find us so
distasteful, you should not risk upsetting your delicate self by coming
here!