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On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 14:36:36 -0400, Hugh Lawson <hu.law...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>A.Lur...@who-knows-where.com writes:
>
>
>> America would be nice without the redneck South, which is indeed not
>> only holding the whole country back but threatening to plunge it back
>> into darkness.  If you disagree, then the MM is more right about you
>> than I've hitherto given him credit for being.
>
>You seem to be trying to frighten me with the thought that you will
>disapprove of me.  I do disagree with you.  I'm very happy in North
>Carolina.  If you don't like a big fraction of your fellow Americans,
>that is your problem, not mine.
>
>> Now, you've answered me twice yet have still not explained what a
>> "cloud-cuckoo-America" is supposed to mean.
>
>
>
>Cloud-cuckoo-land "refers to an unrealistically idealistic state where
>everything is perfect. ("You're living in Cloud Cuckoo Land, mate.") It
>hints that the person referred to is naïve, unaware of reality or
>deranged in holding such an optimistic belief."
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_cuckoo_land
>
>Cloud-cuckoo-America is a riff on cloud-cuckoo-land.
>
>The wikipedia article gives enough citations of those who have used the
>phrase (Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Henry Wallace, Margaret Thatcher, Newt
>Gingrich, and Paul Krugman)  to make me wonder why you haven't heard of
>it.
>
>HL

If you think America couldn't be better were it not for the opposition
of backward rednecks, North and South but most heavily concentrated in
the South, you're the one living Cloud-cuckoo-land, Hugh.