The movie points up Geary's arrogance and hubris: A US Senator and "family man" patronizing a brothel and thinking nothing of it. We saw an even more egregious example earlier when Geary demands a huge bribe from Michael and justifies it because "I don't like your kind of people...you come out to this clean country with your oily hair...dressed up in silk suits...try to pass yourselves off as decent Americans." This was typical behavior of some Nevadans in power who could trace their ancestry in the state back two or three generations ("pioneers") and thought they owned the state, make their own rules, and apply other rules to "outsiders." Another example was in "Casino," when County Commissioner Pat Webb, after demanding that Ace Rothstein reinstate his useless brother in law in a "juiced-in" job: "You people will never understand that you're here as our guests, and I'm gonna send you back where you came from..." Oli once pointed out that some Texas pezzanovantes think and behave the same way.