Ok guys, I gotta confess...

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On my flight back from Denver the in-flight magazine from Southwest had a big section on Branson.  It seems like every well-meanin', white, Christian, 'Murican's wet dream. 

Would be completely unpalatable to a person like me. 

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Las Vegas without the sin.  Tacky make-believe with a healthy dose of morality.  

Sounds like the worst of everything.  I hope that I never go there.

A lot of the ads in the aforementioned magazine were taken out by businesses/personalities in Branson looking to attract tourists.  Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, had a healthy dose of hokey Americana and Jesus injected into it.  

I think I'd literally burn like Dracula under the morning sun.  

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I feel hurt.

Branson is about an hour and a half from where I grew up, and about two hours (roughly) from where I live now. I have extremely fond memories of taking weekend trips over there when I was little. I enjoyed the shows, but Silver Dollar City was always the highlight for me.

Great place - I'll likely be taking another visit there this summer. I'd recommend it to anyone.

I think it has a lot to do with what different Americans picture when they think of America, and everyone loves the places that match that mental picture.  Places like Branson seem to advertise themselves as the country encapsulated; whereas when I think of America the first thing to pop into my mind is New York or Boston.  

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Branson is also typically thought of as the second capital of country music in the US (the first being Nashville obviously.)

Ugh.  That too. 

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Oh... and since this IS the Atlas.  

1992: R+21
1996: R+23
2000: R+27
2004: R+34
2008: R+37
2012: R+38

It's voting habits are atrocious.  

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Oh... and since this IS the Atlas.  

1992: R+21
1996: R+23
2000: R+27
2004: R+34
2008: R+37
2012: R+38

It's voting habits are atrocious.  

Its voting habits are stupendous; its culture is what's atrocious.

How could it's culture be atrocious when they repeatedly reject the RACIST DEMOCRATS?