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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]seems to be a mix of mean as well as kind and helpful.

I'm from DC and currently in the midwest now. Same mix of mean and kind here. [/quote]

Wait - you're suggesting that people in the midwest are sometimes mean?  But . . . but . . . but . . . I thought it was an article of faith that people in the midwest (the south, too.) are universally kind, loving folk who never utter a harsh word, even anonymously!  Say it ain't so, Joe!  You'd better be careful, PP, they'll come after you now (kindly and respectfully, of course).  [/quote]

I never said everyone in the Midwest is nice.  But sitting on your perch of superiority and looking down your overeducated noses at them isn't nice either, no matter how you look at it.  Nice straw man, though.[/quote]

PP, I'm the poster who commented on the mix of mean and kind. I was being polite. To be more honest than polite: over the last few years that I've spent here, I've actually found more meanness in the midwest than in DC. As I've spent more time in the midwest, I've met more and more nice people. My guess is that as I've adapted to midwestern mannerisms, people have felt more comfortable with me, which is why they've been kinder. Growing up in DC, I've always been immediately welcoming and kind to midwesterners, and many people in DC are the same way. I think people in DC might be less resistant to "outsiders" than midwesterners are.

And, by the way, there really aren't that many sitting on perches of superiority and looking down at midwesterners in DC. That seems to be a default setting for many midwesterners, and it's (mostly) just not so.[/quote]

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