I knew of no actual blue-collar types who agreed with my take on the world, but like some present- day pundit pondering the majesty of the red states, I could deduce their existence as well. For example, there was a viaduct in a poor neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas, on which someone had spray-painted “Russia Iran Disco Suck.” Driving underneath it on my way to and from a debate tournament one day, I gloried in the succint eloquence of this bit of proletarian wisdom. The logic was flawless. As sucked disco, so sucked communism. So sucked Iran. Even more inspiring was the unspoken corollary: as rocked Van Halen, so rocked Ronald Reagan.

— Thomas Frank, Page 148-149, What’s the Matter With Kansas?

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