I know what a Metro is. A metro lives in a metropolitan area like Superman who lives in Metropolis. Metros live near "stuff." There are movies, and plays, and clubs. There are galleries. There are nice places to eat. The place is diverse.

The Neocons (New Confederates?) are more scattered and don't venture into Metro strongholds like New York, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, or even Atlanta because these places make them uncomfortable. And I sort of know what a Neocon is, having lived in the rural South for a while.

They aren't bad people, just scared. They know everyone and they know how things work. They are practical people.

Kurt Vonnegut once wrote a forward to a book called "Our Time is Now," about 1960's radical kids. In it he says that high school students are told they should graduate and go to college and get prepared for the real world. And so many folks go to college and end up in a Metro mindset for a campus dropped into a small Southern town will Metrofy its citizens.

Yet, after we leave college, unless we stay in a metro stronghold, the world is like high school because it is run by those who either never went Metro or who found the Metro way to be, ultimately, alien.

There is an interesting statistic that's floating around. I am not sure of the source, but it sure is funny.