Class in Drag or Who's Middle Class Anyway?: Sarah Palin, Joe Sixpack, and Main Street
Filed by: Yasmin Nair
October 5, 2008 10:30 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/10/class_in_drag_or_whos_middle_class_anywa.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2008/10/class_in_drag_or_whos_middle_class_anywa.php)
But I'll admit that even I forgot about abortion on Thursday because I was distracted by Palin's peculiar evocation of "Joe Sixpack" and her constant attempts to perform a version of class that's supposed to remind us all of "middle America," the land of the virtuous and hardworking folk who say "gonna" and "doggone it" and... oh, forget it. I'm not even going to try to replicate what she did. Her folksy rendition of the speech patterns of people we're supposed to recognise as the "average American" was nothing more than a caricature of class in America.
Well gosh darn it, down here on mainstreet we'll all just a'shucks kinda folk.
Like the rest of the US is like Alaska, fewer people per square mile, 683,478 of them, all getting gubment' checks every year. Yeah, not like that entire Boston to DC place where no one lives.
*wink* ;)