Mrs. Obama: FINALLY Proud of Her Country?

No. I'm extrapolating from the posts you repeatedly make regarding supposed cultural attitudes among folk in the flyover country.

Well, if you define "guns" as the sole arbiter of your culture, and base your assessment on one discussion in one thread, then I have to admit you've got me.

Otherwise I'll conclude that I struck a nerve by suggesting that the folks who cry "AMERICA!!!!" the loudest tend to be the ones who are most wedded to their regional identity, and wouldn't recognize "America" unless it came with a Ted Nugent soundtrack.

What exactly is wrong with Ted Nugent?

Guns? No. Basic civility and respect for others? Yes. Always perfect? Hardly.

You're the one who was interested in how a right to carry map intersected with your travel destinations.

As for cries of "AMERICA!!!", please show where I've ever made such cries. My comment towards you was merely an observation on your ever present assumptions about people you look down on, and how it permeates every post you make. It's an obsession, and it's not healthy. Some of us are honestly concerned.

Plus, I can't stand Ted Nugent, but don't let that stop you from making yet another assumption.

I'm just waiting for this to happen.

So people who live in California aren't allowed to be proud to be an American?

Actually, that makes a lot of sense....

Which, in my experience, can apply to residents of any state. Except, as I've said before, the NY to Boston corridor.

Um, no. You've got that wrong. And since the rest of your assumptions are built around that core assumption, unless we can resolve that, we're talking at cross purposes.

Technically, it seems to me like you're the one who's made guns "the sole arbiter of your culture." For you, apparently the only place worth living is where guns are outlawed and anyone who would feel a desire to own a gun is clearly a paranoid backwards rube.

Nope.

No, I look down on conservatives and religious people because an awful lot of them are fucking hypocrites on these particular topics OR try to hammer their views on "morality" or religion into the realm of government - which is and must remain secular, for reasons espoused in that Constitution that has been so praised by your fellows in this here thread.

Maybe I'm an exception to your little "rule". I doubt it, but I'm feeling generous.

Interesting statement.

Not: "I look down on those who..." but "I look down on these whole classes of people because many of them..."

Judging people by the class with which you associate them, and considering yourself superior to them because of the (perceived?) attitudes of an admitted subset of that class, is called "bigotry" where I come from.

And matthunter illustrated Peter's lengthy display of that attitude by echoing it.