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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m an east coast native from a working class white ethnic background. DH grew up comfortably middle class in the midwest. He and I met in college and have lived for many years in DC. When I first met my MIL she asked lots of offensive questions about my family’s religion and on my first visits home with DH the awful, flavorless food and the flatness of everything made me feel lonely. In hindsight a lot of this was just my own provincialness—I didn’t realize there were places in America where you couldn’t get a decent bagel! It has also changed a lot in the past 20 years. DH’s hometown is no longer 100% white protestant, the local grocery stores stock a wider variety of items, etc. But I think a lot of brainy east coast women reject “flyover” because they sense it may also reject them.[/quote]

I do think that a lot of it comes from east coasters being a lot more provincial than anyone anywhere else in the country.  A lot of people never leave, and a lot of television and movies take place there. It’s like being super-American.

I’m from a rural area in the Midwest and I cannot imagine, at any point in my life, thinking that I could go to another city and the food would taste the same as at home, the stores would be the same, or that people would do the same things in their free time.

I’m sorry you didn’t like the food options available to you, but get over it.  Experience a different place.  [/quote]

I think the PP said she was bothered by the food and didn’t know any better—she says she was from a working class background so possibly hadn’t traveled much. It sounds like she has matured since then. But that also possibly her MIL is antisemitic?[/quote]

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