Nomad, you should consider a tour of some of the more politically "scenic" parts of the USA just to properly calibrate your sense of "Wow."  We have areas here that even hard line, pre-Mandela Afrikaners would find congenial.  As a bonus, some areas are very beautiful, Colorado Springs and San Diego being two examples.  However, it would take a while to properly assess local attitudes.  There are many genuinely friendly people, even in small, rural towns there are usually humane and worldly souls and the really dark side of the others normally only emerges when they feel pressed.

The distance we have come and the distance remaining to go are both impressive.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

As a virtual alternative one could browse through many of the newspapers in the Gannett family.  My mother used to subscribe to the Tucson Citizen and the LTEs were always a plentiful source of RW foam.  My local paper, The Baxter Bulletin, is also a Gannett paper.  It is the paper of record for North Central Arkansas.  I can only dream of having the Bulletin bought by McClachy.


As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."