One thing I love about American politics is the amount of people who have never left their hometown will tell you exactly, confidently, what the world is like.
MILWAUKEE—overheard a visiting Bostonian lament the fact that he walks into wind no matter what direction he goes, clearly not used to the particularities of Wisconsin weather.
“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.”
-Ulysses S. Grant