Don’t believe the New York Times. My take on Reagan’s extraordinary letters, posted opposite.
“WACKERS”: The urbanites parodying white-trash couture are nothing new. As one correspondent opines:
First of all, every child of the boondocks knows it’s a ‘gimme cap’, not a ‘trucker hat’. They were free gifts from seed corn companies and implement dealers, not $60 accessories from the Von Dutch boutique. Second, although it may come as some shock to the uberhipsteroids of Williamsburg, college kids in Iowa were wearing them as purely ironic fashion statements TWENTY YEARS AGO. Interesting to see that trends eventually make it to the hinterlands of Brooklyn.
Here’s a good New York Press piece on the phenom that appeared almost a year before the NYT.
THE WEST AND ISLAM: At last, an example of resistance to murderous cultural misogyny in the West.
THE REAL AMERICA: A Brit realizes the foolishness of stereotypes.
The Dish 