gandalf: Sweet Jesus, you’re one of those East Coast intelligentsia types, aren’t you? You’re probably flipping through the “Village Voice” right now, and buying organic foodstuffs from Vermont, or, even worse, CANADA!

My God, it all becomes so clear!

It’s kind of funny. I grew up in the SF/Bay Area, out in Santa Clara County (which, by way of reference, is very much like Orange County in terms of demographics and voting), so there has always been this presumption that if you’re from that part of the world, you’re liberal. Not so much. But we were also next door to Palo Alto and Stanford, which has always had a combustible and schizophrenic mix of diehard leftist profs, libertarian entrepreneurs and conservative pro-DoD types (who were awash in government money for research and development). Needless to say, it creates some funky attitudes and viewpoints.