From where I’m sitting right now it’s a short walk to the graves of farmers and merchants who faced down the most powerful army of their day with nothing more than muskets, guile and a belief in liberty. I live a few miles from the home of John Jay, one of the authors of the Federalist Papers. I have neighbors who have held high ranking positions of consequence in both Democratic and Republican administrations.
So when I hear from certain political corners that there are “pro-American” and “anti-American” parts of our country, and infer that as a New York liberal I’m in the latter portion of our great land, I get a bit annoyed.
