Florida

I left the freezing weather of New York and travelled to Florida to spend Christmas with my family. I flew into Orlando, then rented a beige Ford Taurus at Dollar Rent-a-Car. I brought with my my worst and only cold of the year (just in time for the holidays).
On my drive north along I-95 I came across a homemade sign that stated "Thank the Lord for George & Jeb Bush". I felt like pulling over and puking. It's amazing how a president that caters so much to the wealthy could appeal to most rednecks. I'm not going to bash Florida, but the state has its share of uneducated rednecks, and the sign (judging by its appearance and penmanship) was definitely constructed by one.
This brings to mind a certain realization. Are the red states (southern, mid-west) just less-educated than the northern blue states? Are there more intellectuals living in New York, California, and New England, than Alabama, Missouri, and South Carolina? Or as written in a British Newspaper can 59 million people be so stupid? As a democrat, left-leaning New Yorker, my answer to that rather blunt question is "unfortunately yes." I'm sure there are many intelligent people living in the red states. There are also many people in those red states that voted for John Kerry, just as voters in blue states cast their vote for GWB.
I guess a southern redneck driving a pickup with gun rack watching Fox News on his DirecTV satellite enhanced tellivision believes everything the president tells him.