October 02, 2008

Against "Small Town Snobbery"

I totally agree with Steve Chapman:

Americans disdain snobbery in all its forms except the most popular one: reverse snobbery. Joe Biden would never get up in front of a crowd and suggest that the citizens of Manhattan are morally superior to the residents of Possum Gulch, Ark. But Sarah Palin was happy to tell the Republican National Convention that the very best people come from the country... One of these days, the 80 percent of Americans who live in more populated areas may tire of being obliquely insulted. Most urbanites and suburbanites don't think they're any better than their country cousins. But Palin might want to think twice before telling them they're worse."
To suggest that "good people" are more likely to come from any particular part of America, or any particularly sized city than not is one of the more absurd insinuations to appear thus far in the election.

Posted by Stephen Silver at October 2, 2008 03:18 PM
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Most urbanites and suburbanites don't think they're any better than their country cousins.

He must know different urbanites and suburbanites than I do.

Posted by: Gib at October 2, 2008 08:38 PM
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