As a resident of the United States, I want to first apologize for the amount of elitists we pump out of New England (that's Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Connecticut to those of you that didn't know). All the "high end" schools in the area give these people some inflated sense of self worth, when really they are just self-absorbed douchebags. I have done my best to quell them, but they have combined with California hipsters and elitists to form a race of elitist/hipster hybrids with no perceivable weakness, so I'm sorry you have to deal with them when they travel.
As for all of the U.S., I sincerely apologize for the Westboro Baptist Church. They give religion a terrible name, and are a group of the most hateful, spiteful, ignorant people on the planet and need to just be silenced, but that damn first amendment keeps getting in the way.