While opposition to the war has been stronger and more visible on the East and West coasts, small towns in the heartland and the South have provided the Bush administration with some of its most steadfast backers.
But that support has cracked amid the echoes of graveside bagpipes and 21-gun salutes, which have been heard with greater frequency in recent months in small Midwestern communities.
The cause is no longer clear, the Iraq war no longer seems winnable and the costs are too high. Now it's dragged on and on. It's just every day, you hear of more casualties." Small town USA is waking up to this Republican nightmare.
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