As a resident of Sugar Land, TX, I must say that our community is thriving. Booming, in fact. What started out as a suburban community of people looking for excellent public schools will become a metropolitan are of over 1,000,000 people by 2020.

I can assure Mr. Noah that it wouldn’t surprise anyone here to discover that one of our neighbors or political representatives was a fan of the opera, nor would it bother them. Houston has a world-renowned opera and I can further assure Mr. Noah that it wasn’t created and sustained for all of these years by a bunch of chaw-spittin’ rednecks.

I have to wonder if Mr. Noah is aware of how ignorant he is, or how dangerous this ignorance is to the Democratic Party. This attitude loses elections, and yet they can’t seem to resist it.

The Southern Intellectual although ignored, is by no means extinct. And they sit back in amusement at myopic east coasters who plug their ears, shut their eyes, shove Thai food down their throats, and smugly declare their intellectual superiority.