Why is Oklahoma so Republican? Why is Maine so white? And why is Pennsylvania so haunted?
Not to be too Benedict Anderson about it, but if there is such thing as a national psyche, that thing is ably documented by Autocomplete. Do a Google search for “Why is Mississippi so…,” for example, and you will be greeted with…
Read it all and check out the map.
I just Googled South Carolina: poor, stupid and violent.