progressive, secular, cosmo-politan, elite, internationalist, “Bobo”America; while Sarah Palin embodies conservative, traditional, religious, provinical, populist, nationalist, Jacksonian America. This cultural polarization of two Americas has prevailed since the 1920s; think of Prohibition , flappers , and the Scopes Trial . “For that reason,” Frum concludes, “conservatives in recent years have ridden populist waves more successfully than liberals have done.