Don’t know how I missed this: back in December, the incomparable David Brooks analyzed the differences between the areas of the US that voted for Bush (the red swaths on the electoral map that covered the American heartland) and the parts of the country that picked Gore (the blue that lined the coasts).
Brooks, who lives in “Blue America,” observed, among other things, that “things are different” in “Red America”:
Everything that people in my neighborhood do without motors, the people in Red America do with motors. We sail; they powerboat. We cross-country ski; they snowmobile. We hike; they drive ATVs. We have vineyard tours; they have tractor pulls. When it comes to yard work, they have rider mowers; we have illegal aliens.