I live here, and - most of the traditions have never made much sense, well.. after age ~12.
I guess I've wondered too, if he travels well - a lot of his hyperbole is coded in local labels, so I see what you mean. I think it's fair to call him a Muckraker in the mold of Mencken, but by whatever name, he clearly had the nose for the multiforms of hypocrisy; was the nemesis of the Murican fondness for euphemisms. Undoubtedly on every Tee Vee preacher's List.
That's enough for me to salute.