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Why Do Red-Staters Despise the East Coast Media? Perhaps it has something to do with stories like this one, with their sophisticate condescension crudely disguised as compassion, help to explain:

Stuart, named for the Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart, has always sent its sons off to war. On the courthouse lawn, the World War II memorial bears 64 names. The Vietnam War memorial lists seven men who did not come home. High unemployment has caused many of Stuart’s young to seek opportunities in the military. . . .

As a trooper, Darrell Bowling is an Andy-of-Mayberry type, more likely to issue a stern lecture than a ticket. . . .

Mayberry? I’m sure that most of the Postie patricians would drop their forks into their radicchio and call for their smelling salts if little Trevor ever came home from prep school and announced that he was joining the Marine Corps. To them, the urchins from Flyoverland who volunteer to serve must seem ignorant, twangy, and pitifully naive bumpkins. They may even feel that the mind-fuck articles they write from the comfort of padded chairs and heated offices do more to protect our freedom than guys like Corporal Jonathan Bowling did by giving his life. They pay him a supreme dishonor–and reveal their own whatever-it-takes arrogance–by exploiting this young Marine’s death to undermine the very cause for which he gave his life.