Sweet home Idaho

I may be a political refugee from my home state and all, but this kind of funhouse-mirror reporting is enough to make me want to go all Lynyrd Skynyrd on some Briton's ass. From the Guardian:

Journey to the heart of Bushlandia - The wide open spaces of Idaho have little room for anti-war sentiment

To liberals on both coasts, Idaho is redneck country... Being a Democrat in this setting can be a lonely existence. "We do still find ourselves whispering in the supermarket about it," said Maria Weeg, executive director of the Idaho Democratic party. "There's such an overwhelming psychological thing. No one wants to be part of 'the other', and the Republicans have done a pretty good job of making Democrats here into the enemy."

Link via the inexplicably optimistic (and non-whispering) Red State Rebels.