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We had a program in Canada with comedian Rick Mercer called "talking to Americans, where he would ask questions that were nonsense/bogus and ask Americans their opinions. It was VERY funny hearing the remarks, and he sure collected some of the most asinine views on subjects I ever saw. But you have to remember for ever individual he found with a 'questionable intellect' I bet he had 20-30 that he stopped and they knew the question were bogus (they didn't make the show naturally). I think the same could be done here in Canada or any other country, but it sure seems easy to pick on Texans ;)

You know there should be rules for voting and that clip just proved it, my god

If you came to Muskogee I would bet you would get the same response. The guy who had his face blocked out with the sad face said he was running for mayor LOL. Seems like he is a couple cans sort of a six pack.

That was an interesting video, SAD, but interesting.

Fair point, Nick - and thanks for that excellent clarification, Thomas. But I think what it does illustrate is the tendency in the USA for people to have to have polarised opinions. If you're not a capitalist then you are, de facto, a socialist (or, even worse, a communist!); you're either a feminist or a misogynist, and if you're not anti-gay that means you're either gay or an ultra-liberal pro-gay. Nuances of opinion don't seem to be acceptable, or at least not generally so. If you asked this question in a medium sized town in, say, Germany, France, Britain or the Netherlands, people would almost certainly know what 'heterosexual' meant; a lot of them would ask 'don't you mean 'an admitted homosexual?' And they would also be likely to say 'a person's sexuality isn't important when it comes to voting for them'. As for the man who said on camera that gays and poor people should be gassed, in Europe he would be arrested and charged with a hate crime - in fact the interviewer might be taken to court as well for broadcasting the man's opinions.

I don't know if it is true, but have heard stories about parents somewhere deep in the Bible belt demanding that the school's science teacher be fired for daring to tell his students that we are all homo sapiens.

@nick18 I would agree I could get the same responses in almost any US City. But I will disagree that they are the biggest idiots. I do a lot of presentations and training about LGBT issues, the the lack of knowledge about terminology and word meaning is pervasive across all demographics. Frankly, part of it is driven because the "majority" which is heterosexual doesn't understand its own labels. They hear the word admitted heterosexual and since that is like the code they use to describe the LGBT community they immediately jump to that point of view. The majority rarely sees its part in its own culture, for it defines itself as "just normal" and everything else as weird and/or wrong.

Yikes, I thought Austin was the only progressive city in Texas.

Is it just the people of Austin, Texas, or does a significant proportion of the American population not know the difference between 'heterosexual' and 'homosexual'? In which case something is fundamentally wrong with the US education system and the way the country raises its children. If it wasn't so shameful it would be funny.