Republican vice presidential candidate Palin, Sarah, ignited the debate over what’s “real America” in her campaigning around the country. When visiting an area the Alaska governor really likes, Palin, Sarah, declares the place to be “real America.” One such area is eastern North Carolina, where Palin, Sarah was moved to say: “We believe that the best of America is in these small towns…these wonderful pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard-working, very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation.”

Palin, Sarah’s declarations of what’s “real America” led comic Jon Stewart to spoof that Osama Bin Laden must have taken palm of hand to forehead and said in his cave somewhere, “Damn, you mean I bombed fake America?”

Yep, if Palin, Sarah is to be believed.

Columnist Debusmann notes that under Palin, Sarah’s definition there are vast stretches of fake America in our great land. Three times more Americans live in big cities and their suburbs than in small towns and rural areas, Debusmann noted.

“In the 2008 campaign, attempts to portray one set of Americans, (those living in rural areas and small towns), as more American than their big-city compatriots run counter to demographics. Nostalgia for a country that no longer exists?” Debusmann writes.

Yes, yearning for the America of long ago, (say pre-1960), is what many a patriotic Republican yearns for these days. You know, the time before Hispanics starting showing up in places like Indiana with their pan dulce  and their American-born kids who really aren’t American. Oh well, they can still listen to Hannity everyday on the radio and yearn for what could be.

In the meatime, hundreds of millions of people in this country will go on day-to-day in their parallel world, the one Debusmann refers to a “richly diverse country of 300 million,” where most of us somehow trudge on in Palin, Sarah’s fake America.  

- R.D. Cavazos

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