america's relationship with si

One could be forgiven for describing the USA/Metric relationship as a "love/hate" one.  On one hand, American scientists, and educators often prefer metric units only and even encourage its usage. On the other hand, I hear comments about the metric system being "French and communist" or that it's too logical and cold. These are some of the things I hear from some fellow Americans in the general public who dont want anything to do with metric.  To bring up a point, France was one of America's biggest allies, and a decimal based measuring system was supported by the Founding Fathers.  However, I feel that America's historical connection to the SI system is ignored due to the "Love/hate" relationship i mentioned earlier.  American culture, opponants of metric conversion say, would be destroyed by metric integration.  An example of what they mean is that songs for example which talk about miles would supposedly talk about kilometers instead, in a format like 34.572 km.  This is simply not true.  In songs, or book references, the term "mile" is often used as a historical reference.  Historical references of imperial units is ok in my opinion.  However, in daily life, American's should develop a positive relationship with SI, much as America affectionately refers to its imperial units today.  If America could develop the same "love" in a way, for SI, transition to only metric would go at a much faster and efficient rate.  Logical systems of measurement should be embraced as the benefits would help everybody in the USA, from farmers, to scientists.