Let's be honest, DH:  Most right-wingers don't know enough history to even comment on it.  These are people who believe that masters and slaves lived in harmony prior to the 1860s, when the demonic Abe Lincoln attacked the "morally superior" Southerners, and who think judges are actually trying to push "The Homosexual Agenda" instead of actually handing down rulings based on the Constitution.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

They are, err, no, they are not nice. It's a beautiful place. The locals are great if they like you, but they, err, can be major pains in the arse when they're in the mood, especially in the "independentist" ones.

And their upkeep is pretty expensive. To the point that a former Prime Minister suggested quite meanly a few years ago, that it should not be for Corsica to ask for its independence from France but for France to get its independence from Corsica...