Living Stereotypes

Today I was looking at an electoral map of the country and this guy I work with, A1 said, "Agh, look at that sea of red. I hate to see all those red states." I was surprised, because I'd thought A1 was one of those moneyed white-trash Republicans (the Sarah Palin-type)
Then he said, "Oh wait, which is red and which is blue? No, I like seeing red Republican states! That's the good one!"
Every day I'm stunned by how ignorant, stupid and illogical my co-workers are. I was, as usual, dumbstruck. If you can look at a map of the US and see the big "wild west" heartland states and they're all red, and not remember what red means...if you've been a lifelong trustfund republican from Massachusetts (!!!!!!) and can't remember which are red states and which are blue...you lose your right to vote. Sorry!
I thought, when I was in high school and college people would say things like, "The only people who could really be Republicans are lazy, incompetent, white trustfund kids who are afraid of minorities. I would always say what a cheap, tacky cliché this was. And then I met A1, who fits every inch of that stereotype to a fucking T.
One time, T said, "Some of my friends said Iraq had nothing to do with 911. I don't think so! Otherwise, why else would we have invaded Iraq? I thought, are you an actual individual human being or are you a human microcosm of the American Public (tm) (r)?
I generally feel a kind of mixed guilt about coming down from my elite high horse to tell ignorant hillbillies that evidence has to support claims, rather than the reverse, but that day I blew up. That logic is completely backwards, T, I said. The White House used 911 as a smokescreen to invade Iraq, because they wanted people to be too afraid to question it, they implied, or allowed the public to assume, a connection, to justify what they wanted to do all along.