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[quote=Anonymous][quote]What is with this elite terminology though? I thought that liberals did not engage in class warfare. You make it sound like all the poor rubes in fly-over country are peasants or something. [/quote]

You're a bit confused.  This has nothing to do with "class-warfare"; in fact, the issue is orthogonal to class.  Of course there are quite poor people in flyover country.  There are middle-class people who live there.  And there are rich people who live in flyover country.  By and large, the wealthy who live in flyover country are recipients of welfare largess to an extent the poor can only dream about.

Also, there's still a fair amount of socio-economic mobility in the US, so you're seeing more and more young people graduate from high school, get an education, and move to states where they can actually be a net contributor to the nation's wealth, rather than a net drain.

I find it interesting that you focused, laser-like, on the phrase "bi-coastal elites" which is actually a term used largely by conservatives.  You've ignored the larger point--probably because it's largely uncontroversial to the point of banality--that a significant reduction in the federal government, leading to the curtailment of the "welfare state" will result in the virtual devastation of rural (red-state) America.  And that will be to the benefit of "blue-state" America.[/quote]

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