Not since Henry Morton Stanley set off into the wilds of Africa to discover the whereabouts of explorer and missionary Dr. David Livingstone has a newspaper reporter been sent off to a locale so exotic and dangerous as the one the Washington Post's David Von Drehle found in America's ferocious and uncivilized Red States.
That the land's woefully ignorant inhabitants, who go naked but for boots and cowboy hats, enjoy universal suffrage, will surely be the topic of many future articles in newspapers along the Boston-Washington corridor.
Country Store and Tim Blair have all the details.
Posted by floridacracker at January 17, 2005 05:57 PM