experiences—I feel overwhelming
appreciation for these United States. I
know it’s corny, but it’s the way I feel.
If Mamaw’s second God was the
United States of America, then many
people in my community were losing
something akin to a religion. The tie that
bound them to their neighbors, that
inspired them in the way my patriotism
had always inspired me, had seemingly
vanished.
The symptoms are all around us.
Significant percentages of white
conservative voters—about one-third—
believe that Barack Obama is a Muslim.
In one poll, 32 percent of conservatives
said that they believed Obama was
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(Rick Simeone)
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