“As summed up by the distinguished social scientist who writes humor columns under the name of Dave Barry, residents of Red states are ‘ignorant racist fascist knuckle-dragging NASCAR-obsessed cousin-marrying road-kill-eating tobacco-juice-dribbling gun-fondling religious fanatic rednecks,’ while Blue-state residents are ‘godless unpatriotic pierced-nose Volvo-driving France-loving leftwing Communist latte-sucking tofu-chomping holistic-wacko neurotic vegan weenie perverts.’
James Q. Wilson in an article entitled How Divided Are We?