I grew up in a community not unlike Palin's home town. In my youth I spent a lot of time traveling to other similar towns. Her beliefs and attitudes are very s

I grew up in a community not unlike Palin's home town. In my youth I spent a lot of time traveling to other similar towns. Her beliefs and attitudes are very similar to the mainstream in the rural communities I am familiar with. I will go out on a limb and say that there are quite a few people in rural Montana, the Dakotas, Wyoming, Minnesota, and Idaho who would be Palin supporters. I'm not sure if this can be extended to 'mainstream' in the rest of America, because more people live in big cities and suburbs, which are much different than the rural areas. Even rural areas in other parts of the country seem wildly different. Rural New Mexico, "the South" and Oregon all seemed very different from each other and from anything that I experienced growing up. I'm not sure how Palin would fare in those places.