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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Calling everyone in the middle an uneducated, imbecilic, racist rube from flyover country.

Calling them uncultured and ignorant.

Watching government grow exponentially without tangible benefit in the "middle".

Being told how and what to think.

Being condescended to because you chose to move to Detroit with your Harvard MBA rather than going to NYC or DC or some place "with culture".

How's that for a start?[/quote]

Um, that's not DC any more than calling Obama a family of chimpanzees is Republican.[/quote]

Sorry to inform you, but it is DC.  Simply look at hundreds of posts on this forum about how people in "flyover" country are treated.  Here are a couple of quotes:

"In flyover country perhaps, but not in tier 1 cities."

About women: "The 7's and 8's who are nurses or work in other service industry or low level bs hr or marketing jobs from flyover country might not be able to hold a conversation with me regarding optimal central bank policy or the implications of shinzo abe's party looking to re-write parts of the japanese constitution but they are content and have a pleasant attitude."

About intellect:  "Ugh, so my husband has developed a recent (and poorly informed) series of opinions about monetary policy that he is for some reason feeling compelled to share with the entire world. We'll be at a barbecue with friends and he'll just start yammering on about the evils of the Federal Reserve, how the US dollar isn't actually "worth anything," etc... The problem is that I, as well as most of our friends, are attorneys, civil servants, lobbyists, or other working professionals who know better. [b]He's spouting some serious flyover-state BS[/b] -- I don't even know where he gets it. The other night, I caught his best friend's wife rolling her eyes at another acquaintance when DH started talking. I suspect that they have a lot of laughs at his (our?) expense."

About beaches (of all things):  "Not to get off topic, but lakes don't have beaches. Not real ones, anyway. I know you folks in flyover country vehemently disagree, but sorry - on this, East and West Coast natives can find common ground. No beaches on lakes."

About rearing children:  "why would you want your son to grow up in flyover country? Every friend I have, whose parents moved from alpha-metro's to sleepy towns in their elementary school years has held it against their parents."

And that is just a brief look.  Simply do a search on DCUM in almost any forum for "flyover" and you will find hundreds of awful comments.  So why should the people in the middle like coasties?

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