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Even if Marcotte did spend her formative years in Alpine, she is neither uneducated nor a hick. She LEFT the small town and got herself a bachelor's degree. Ergo, she is not uneducated (she attended St. Edward's, a Catholic university, but I will leave the exploration of the ironies therein for another day). As for the "hick" part, Webster's defines "hick" as "an unsophisticated provincial person." She no longer lives in Alpine and her worldview is far from provincial. (That said, in my opinion, her writings could have more sophistication: the bulk of them are strident polemics, but if she would just go beyond name-calling, reading her might be worthwhile. And it was also unsophisticated to not expect that the right would bite right back.) Hick? probably not.
By the way, I'd watch out in referring to people from Alpine as hicks. Do you think that no one from said town (besides Marcotte) reads Salon? Or do you mean it ironically? Ah, so difficult to decipher writers' tones online...maybe you are you from Alpine, too, and your name is really Larry Sechrest.
