what does it mean?

[cos]

Please comment on this post before you read anyone else's comments.

This weekend, I saw a bumper sticker that said,
Straight, White, English-Speaking
Proud American
For a moment, I was offended ... then I started thinking of several different possible intentions, meanings, and contexts for this slogan. After a bit of confusion, I settled on curiosity. What does it mean? What did the people who sold it intend for it to convey, and what did the person who put it on their car intend to say by it? I can think of several different possibilities or nuances, and maybe there are more.

So tell me, what do you read in this bumper sticker slogan? And if, like me, you see several possibilities, which one came first, before you thought about it?

Comments

[estheruth.livejournal.com]

First thought: I think that this person has a burning neeeed to have a bumper sticker, and is thus inherently flawed. see, I hate bumper stickers. I think any person who can sum up what they think in a few pithy slogans is going to piss me off.
Second thought: this person is probably straight, white, speaks (only?) english, and is proud to be an american in a way that may or may not make me uncomfortable, depending. Thats, like, everybody I grew up with. they may or may not be an asshole. the part where they're hastening to state the S,W,S(o?)E, P.A. bit makes me lean towards asshole.
Third thought: pride is, like, my worst flaw. so it's one of the things that pisses me off most in other people.

[plymouth.livejournal.com]

I think any person who can sum up what they think in a few pithy slogans is going to piss me off.

I hope that is tongue-in-cheek. My small number of silly and nonpolitical bumperstickers are curling up in indignation!

[estheruth.livejournal.com]

I can't make my user icon wink, you see...

[(Anonymous)]

I'm with you all the way..