If you had 6 months and a lot of money and you wanted to go to America and get the "American" feel, which cities would you use as bases. I'm thinking of maybe doing 3 cities for around 2 months and obviously doing some travelling around the more rural places.

The obvious choices would be LA, New York and Denver but I'm sure you'll tell me that these are full of shitlibs and that I should go eat gator with some coonhat dude in a swamp or w/e. Thoughts?