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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lol, I live in flyover country now but was born in CA and lived in MoCo twice for a total of 8 years.

It's nice here.  There is enough high culture.  DMV people are trying to get into my flagship alma mater.

But some of them want me to get off this board and have said so.  Those people also think the NYCers are ruining the college forum because their top privates have different strategies and results than DC privates.  I think that's funny.  They are not even tolerant of fellow East Coasters.   If they were more careful readers and question-askers they would be fine.

One thing I can say is true is that establishment elites with their free market globalist tendencies did a lot of damage to Rust Belt communities.  They thought globalization was great and protectionism was a big mistake.  They thought it was fine to send a lot of US industry and jobs off-shore.  Because they were thinking with their wallets and not about people's lives and community wellbeing.  Their policies were basically economic enshittification.

And now the insanity of the Trump administration is the harsh political consequence.  Incoherent protectionism, hatred towards diverse groups, etc.   To me it's mostly an antagonistic reaction to decades of economic policies that benefitted wealthy coastal elites.  The owner class.  To fix things, we need to go back towards policies that ensure the true middle class succeeds (UMC is fine under Trump).

My flyover county is actually skewing more Democrat now.  It used to be centrist Republican.

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Yes, I feel similar. Despite thinking of themselves as multicultural and open, many have no clue about others and assume all those fly over places got what they deserved because they’re dumb. Now that it’s hitting more of them - h1b visas, AI etc- and Dems are losing elections, they are noticing more. They also don’t appreciate that people in fly over states are often much smarter in certain ways (most of my city friends and I have to call for help for almost any manual or physical task) and they often have strong communities (the thought of asking my city friends or neighbors to come over to help me pack or paint is laughable, yet it happens in my former fly over home, same with meal trains when someone is sick, etc) and the people are lovely, including to POC who have been a part of their communities for decades. [/quote]

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