Rod - I'm almost done with the book, so I'll save my more sustained response for when I can do it at length. But: I understand that you've written a polemic (and, to my surprise, I'm actually quite sympathetic to much of the interior parts of that polemic). But, I think you're simply mistaken as to the extent your categorical assumptions inform your entire view, argumentation and analysis. More on that shortly. Also, I was more directly responding to Caleb's points than yours and I probably should have been more clear.
As for where you refer to big-haired Republicans. See page 18, where you say how one crunchy con family "stick out like sore thumbs" in Texas "amid all the big-haired Republican types."
