Just making a personal addition to this little linguistic pissing contest:

Not only do Americans, for the most part, not know what a passport is, but in the south, I've been accused of being British (I'm an American that just happens to be educated....As you can imagine, I don't fit in well in Texas.)

However, having been to various parts of the UK (London, Reading, Cardiff, Somerset, and Swansea), I don't understand how yanks can think I'm a brit...Dumb Texans. 

...I hate it here.