Scientists are smart. They went to college, they use big words and enunciate clearly when they talk. They are intellectuals, sissies. Probably Liberals. They don't know nothing about business, or football. They have lots of book larnin' but no common sense. They may know a lot about computers but they don't know anything about how to run a business. They didn't attend the school of hard knocks.

It probably goes way back to colonial times, when Americans, even the rich and highly cultured, educated and refined ones, were commoners, not nobility like in the Old Country. They might own land and slaves, speak Latin and read Greek, but they were plain folks, like us. Aristocrats were back in England, their wealth and their power was inherited, not earned. When war came the Redcoat officers all had upper class accents, they were nobles. Anti-intellectualism in America has deep roots, and has been projected into really surprising, unexpected areas.

My cousin Rudy and I were just talking about this the other day. He was born and raised in Cuba but has spent most of his life here and he has has noticed it too. I've known it since I was a kid. My family knew it. We could see it all around us. As Rudy puts it, "Americans aren't any dumber or smarter than anyone else, where they are different is that they tend to not like smart people. Even the smart ones learn real young to hide it."

Remember Nixon's "Checkers" speech? It explains the Liberal "elites" in the colleges, and Hollywood, the arts and the media. How does that mesh with your "authoritarian personality" insights?