The expository documentary, Right America: Feeling Wronged, follows Alexandra Pelosi, whose mother is was the first female Democratic Speaker of the House, as she goes across America, asking the most conservatively extreme people their views on the Barack Obama John McCain election. Alexandra Pelosi traveled from Ohio, to Pennsylvania, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, and many other places in between.
The first city Pelosi stopped in this documentary was Bever, Pennsylvania. As a man from the city stated, “This is basically the area that Barack Obama referred to when he said that we were bitter and were clinging to our religion and clinging to our guns.” So just from this quote, it can be assumed that Beaver is a generally very conservative city. The people Pelosi interviewed in this city all seemed to have a few things in common, they believed that the right to have guns was what this country was built on and that it should be kept, and that the rural areas are really the “backbone” of the country, calling them “the real America.”
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She referred to her contributions as “serving God.” A lot of the people that Alexandra Pelosi interviewed during this documentary referred to their religion and that they are serving God. Sara Palin, John McCain’s choice to be vice president used the conservatives strong feelings about religion to her advantage as there were signs promoting her stating, “There is a God.” Another time that religion was brought up in the documentary was when Alexandra filmed at a church. At this church the pastor was continuously talking about how important it was to vote for McCain because “abortion is