<p>Mr. Payne (I got your PM, btw), you're the one who started this whole discussion. When I said a lot of conservatives are stupid, I meant that in two ways. First, I was referring to the Bible Belt (the South) where people think Hussein was bin Laden and thus, our killing him was necessary and that Bush is actually doing a good job and we need to support our troops by keeping them in Iraq to keep getting picked off by insurgents...that, to me, is stupid. The people who think Bush is a Christian because he supports a war, any war, that only gives us more dead bodies is stupid. It's not even so much a lie the media tells us at this point; it's just something they believe. And they're stupid for believing it. Stupid.</p>
<p>The other reason is that a lot of this country is rural. States with large metropolitan areas tend to be in the position to accept differing backgrounds and opinions and ideas and views than states where their is little change in the past thirty years. This isn't stupidity as much as it is ignorance, though, to most people it IS stupidity. People, especially minorities, who think "traditional" values in America are ideal. Please. Traditional in this country isn't the 1950s post-WW2 domestic model; you don't have to be a conservative to believe that had it's strong and weak points. Traditional is women and minorities taking a backseat to land-owning white men.</p>
<p>My point had nothing to do with IQ. You're the one who made it about that.</p>