I just don't get how people can be so ultra sensitive about some things, but others are fair game. Some very unfriendly things can be said with a smile. Somehow, if we can "infer" that red state folks are fat, uneducated, uncultured, bible-thumpin nut jobs, there should be no backlash of any kind. It's only humor. But someone can tell a fat joke, or a race joke, gay joke, or a blind joke, or use the word retarded instead of cognitively challenged, and suddenly he's called out as prejudiced, sexist, or worse.