In 2008, Sarah Palin introduced us to 'real America.' Now, the Clinton camp has found 'new America.'

Hillary Clinton and her "New America".
(Image credit: EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ/AFP/Getty Images)

In 2008, then-vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin ruffled feathers when she described small towns as "the real America" and the "pro-America areas of this great nation." She later apologized.

This election cycle, we learn that there's also a "new America," which consists of places that vote for Hillary Clinton — or so said Clinton campaign surrogate and Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine in an appearance on CNN on Monday.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.