Very white, very clean

The NYT had this strange article on Saturday about an Austin family that wants to get rid of all their extraneous possessions and lead a simpler life. Pretty much standard until you get to this telling quote on the second page:

They are exchanging e-mail with a woman who has a remote cabin available in central Vermont... (where) there is no electricity, Mr. Harris said, just propane power and a wood stove.

"We want to be in clean country with like-minded people with access to clean food," Mrs. Harris said.

Emphasis mine. In addition to the crypto-fascist quality of this statement, it reminded me of the dialogue in "Five Easy Pieces," where the aggro dyke hitchhiker announces she and her girlfriend are going to Alaska:

BOBBY: Where are you going?

PALM: Alaska.

BOBBY: Alaska? Are you on vacation?

TERRY (sullenly): She wants to live there, because she thinks it's cleaner.

BOBBY: Cleaner than what?

PALM (to Terry): You don't have to tell everybody about it. Pretty soon they'll all go there and it won't be so clean.

BOBBY: How do you know it's clean?

PALM: I saw a picture of it. Alaska is very clean. It appeared to look very white to me... Don't you think?

BOBBY: Yeah. That's before the big thaw.

PALM: Before the what?