I've read alot of Bryson. But now I'm not sure how apt I am to read more. He spent the entire book emphasizing and building up stereotypes. He was as brutal to my home state as he was to New England, but it bothered me immensely to hear him refer to entire swaths of the country as one collective (and beneath him) unit. Of course there is the normal racist, stupid, poor, just as soon kill you as look at you South and the ultra violent, sheister northerners. People of any religion do not escape his agnostic ire either.

This is discomfitting to me to suddenly find myself so disgusted with an author I had previously liked.