These are all accurate perceptions of a large subset of American culture (I.e. white, suburban or rural, middle to upper middle-class, Christian fundamentalist—that is, the Republican demographic profile). But this is not ALL Americans, fortunately. And no, this is not hate speech. There is nothing threatening or demeaning in these characterizations. You have been the victim of a Republican witch-hunt based on projection—of their own carefully nurtured hatreds—onto the “other.”