October 05, 2003

Proud to be an American?

Since moving to Orange County I've noticed that a lot of people are very wealthy or at least have the appearance of being very wealthy.

Orange County is also very religious, and very patriotic.

Something I noticed this morning was that unlike Las Vegas (where the patriotic fervor brought about by the terrorist attacks of '01 seemed to have died down about three months after it happened) a lot of extremely expensive cars in the O.C. sport "Proud To Be An American" bumper stickers. What I find interesting is that a good deal of the cars making this claim never seem to be American made cars? I've seen this on a Toyota, BMW, Volkswagen, and a Jaguar just today.

So I was thinking the bumper stickers should read: Proud to be an American (that doesn't support American industry).

Posted by shawn at October 5, 2003 01:21 PM