text: Good question.\n\nKeep in mind that this guy is NOT a Texas-born hillbilly who tawlks like a Suthern gentleman.\n\nHe's from *surprise* New England, and attended Yale. Didn't get great grades though, but passed.\n\nProbably, Rove and company told Bush to keep up his "regular folksy guy" appearance to ensure Midwesterners and Southerners wouldn't think of him as "another intellectual snob".