If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C.
Kurt VonnegutMy ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.
Kurt VonnegutPeople stopped calling themselves Freethinkers because it was so specifically German and anything German was terribly unpopular because of the two world wars. My family became Unitarians instead - it's the same sort of thing.
Kurt Vonnegut