Don't be too hard on them.They are remarkably ignorant of their own country too! Most Kansasans wouldn’t have a clue what’s going on outside of thier town, county, or state.
In the "Mr. Pot? Kettle on line #2" vein: when I was going to high school in the late '60s in Scarborough, Ontario, I told a neighbour kid that I was from Nova Scotia. His next question was "Do they have the same kind of money as us?" This was just after Centennial Year, with all its hoopla about Canada going on.