To McTaliban supporters who don't consider MA and New England to be 'real America'...

[LiberadorHugo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_metropolitan_area

Greater Boston encompasses many significant locations in American history and culture. Examples include the Paul Revere House, the Old North Church, the Old Granary Burying Ground, the site of the Boston Tea Party and that of the Battle of Bunker Hill, the USS Constitution, Lexington and Concord, Walden Pond, the site of the Salem witch trials, and the Christian Science Mother Church. Former Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams were born in Quincy, Massachusetts, as was John Hancock. Frederick Douglass began his career as an abolitionist in Boston. Former President John F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. Former President George H. W. Bush was born in Milton. Malcolm X spent a significant part of his young adulthood in Roxbury, and joined the Nation of Islam while in prison in Charlestown. The National Archives has a regional center in Waltham. Phillips Academy, the country's premier prep school, is located in Andover, and boasts alumni as famous as former Chief Justice of the United States Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and former U.S. President George H. W. Bush.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Yep - America started in New England, was formed in New England,

and is utterly a product of New England.

Also of the enlightenment.

Pilgrims and Puritans landed there, and later, many others did as well.

Jamestown really has little to do with forming America.

Texas even less.

[billyoc]

2. The Christian Phalangists would starve in the dark without N.E. taxpayers feeding them.

Period.

[Laelth]

3. I am a liberal, and this is my country too.

How dare some fascist suggest I am Anti-American. If I criticize the United States, it is because I love my country and I am trying to make it better.

That's true patriotism.

Blind obedience to an autocrat like Bush is Anti-American.

-Laelth