It’s either a) blue staters who are defensive that a red-state conservative is picking on a blue state (there are conservatives in NY!! [No, you don’t say!]) or b) blue staters making fun of backward red staters like me who make fun of sophisticated blue staters.

It’s mildly amusing considering I regularly get e-mail complaining that I am “too New York/northeast.”

It’s always the throwaways (occasionally also know as -trying-desperately-to-catch-up Friday filler) that mean the most grief. (A few other e-mailers today want to know why I support the mullahs in Iran.(?!!?) Do they not read NRO?)