Palin's Small-Town Snobbery: Why it's time to bury the myth of rural virtue

Reason Magazine by Steve Chapman | Oct. 2, 2008 (Opinion)

The myth of rural virtue and urban vice is an old one in this country, and it persists no matter what the changes in the landscape. And whatever questions Palin may face in her debate with Biden, her paeans to small-town virtue aren't likely to be among them. Full Story »

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by Derek Hawkins - Nov. 3, 2008

Americans disdain snobbery in all its forms except the most popular one: reverse snobbery. Joe Biden would never get up in front of a crowd and suggest that the citizens of Manhattan are morally superior to the residents of Possum Gulch, Ark. But Sarah Palin was happy to tell the Republican National Convention that the very best people come from the country.

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