Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I moved to the east coast 20 years ago but I’m still bothered by all the stray insults I hear from my ‘liberal’ friends about the ‘flyover states’ which they assume are full of uncultured idiots. For the most past, they’ve never visited these places. I had lunch with a friend this week and she made comments like this ‘I can’t help it, those places are awful, I’m a proud snob, I like art and culture and education’ - as if others don’t? We also discussed politics, taxes, etc and even though she claims to be a socialist leaning Dem, she noted that she has ‘carefully saved and invested and why should I need to support others who haven’t been as careful?’ Meanwhile she has only worked intermittently her entire adult life, spends lavishly much of the time, and primarily lives from her now ex husbands money.

She talks a lot about how terrible Trump is and how he needs to be stopped. I noted that it seems to be people from a flyover state who are out on the streets more than where we live…

How do you deal with snobby clueless people like this? Any good comebacks?

And no, slow fade isn’t a good response. If I slow faded everyone who bugs me af times, I wouldn’t have any friends!

What a terrible troll. Like you could tell which protesters are from dc and which are from Kansas 🙄 so annoying.

Anonymous wrote:It was just closed, but if you needed proof of the visceral hatred coming from the snobby NE liberals who dwell here on dcum, just read all the hate and racism leveled at the news of Usha Vance’s pregnancy thread.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I moved to the east coast 20 years ago but I’m still bothered by all the stray insults I hear from my ‘liberal’ friends about the ‘flyover states’ which they assume are full of uncultured idiots. For the most past, they’ve never visited these places. I had lunch with a friend this week and she made comments like this ‘I can’t help it, those places are awful, I’m a proud snob, I like art and culture and education’ - as if others don’t? We also discussed politics, taxes, etc and even though she claims to be a socialist leaning Dem, she noted that she has ‘carefully saved and invested and why should I need to support others who haven’t been as careful?’ Meanwhile she has only worked intermittently her entire adult life, spends lavishly much of the time, and primarily lives from her now ex husbands money.

She talks a lot about how terrible Trump is and how he needs to be stopped. I noted that it seems to be people from a flyover state who are out on the streets more than where we live…

How do you deal with snobby clueless people like this? Any good comebacks?

And no, slow fade isn’t a good response. If I slow faded everyone who bugs me af times, I wouldn’t have any friends!

That’s nice. I’m from NYC and still remember the 2008 election, where Palin was running around saying NYC wasn’t “real America.”

But let’s pretend it’s only the “East Coast bubble” that’s intolerant.

Dude, that was 20 years ago and everyone thought she was a nut. The difference is that it is socially acceptable among east coast elites to bash middle America while they know little about it

Anonymous wrote:I moved to the east coast 20 years ago but I’m still bothered by all the stray insults I hear from my ‘liberal’ friends about the ‘flyover states’ which they assume are full of uncultured idiots. For the most past, they’ve never visited these places. I had lunch with a friend this week and she made comments like this ‘I can’t help it, those places are awful, I’m a proud snob, I like art and culture and education’ - as if others don’t? We also discussed politics, taxes, etc and even though she claims to be a socialist leaning Dem, she noted that she has ‘carefully saved and invested and why should I need to support others who haven’t been as careful?’ Meanwhile she has only worked intermittently her entire adult life, spends lavishly much of the time, and primarily lives from her now ex husbands money.

She talks a lot about how terrible Trump is and how he needs to be stopped. I noted that it seems to be people from a flyover state who are out on the streets more than where we live…

How do you deal with snobby clueless people like this? Any good comebacks?

And no, slow fade isn’t a good response. If I slow faded everyone who bugs me af times, I wouldn’t have any friends!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I moved to the east coast 20 years ago but I’m still bothered by all the stray insults I hear from my ‘liberal’ friends about the ‘flyover states’ which they assume are full of uncultured idiots. For the most past, they’ve never visited these places. I had lunch with a friend this week and she made comments like this ‘I can’t help it, those places are awful, I’m a proud snob, I like art and culture and education’ - as if others don’t? We also discussed politics, taxes, etc and even though she claims to be a socialist leaning Dem, she noted that she has ‘carefully saved and invested and why should I need to support others who haven’t been as careful?’ Meanwhile she has only worked intermittently her entire adult life, spends lavishly much of the time, and primarily lives from her now ex husbands money.

She talks a lot about how terrible Trump is and how he needs to be stopped. I noted that it seems to be people from a flyover state who are out on the streets more than where we live…

How do you deal with snobby clueless people like this? Any good comebacks?

And no, slow fade isn’t a good response. If I slow faded everyone who bugs me af times, I wouldn’t have any friends!

That’s nice. I’m from NYC and still remember the 2008 election, where Palin was running around saying NYC wasn’t “real America.”

But let’s pretend it’s only the “East Coast bubble” that’s intolerant.

Anonymous wrote:DC is the most uncultured racist sh*thole I've ever been in

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I moved to the east coast 20 years ago but I’m still bothered by all the stray insults I hear from my ‘liberal’ friends about the ‘flyover states’ which they assume are full of uncultured idiots. For the most past, they’ve never visited these places. I had lunch with a friend this week and she made comments like this ‘I can’t help it, those places are awful, I’m a proud snob, I like art and culture and education’ - as if others don’t? We also discussed politics, taxes, etc and even though she claims to be a socialist leaning Dem, she noted that she has ‘carefully saved and invested and why should I need to support others who haven’t been as careful?’ Meanwhile she has only worked intermittently her entire adult life, spends lavishly much of the time, and primarily lives from her now ex husbands money.

She talks a lot about how terrible Trump is and how he needs to be stopped. I noted that it seems to be people from a flyover state who are out on the streets more than where we live…

How do you deal with snobby clueless people like this? Any good comebacks?

And no, slow fade isn’t a good response. If I slow faded everyone who bugs me af times, I wouldn’t have any friends!

That’s nice. I’m from NYC and still remember the 2008 election, where Palin was running around saying NYC wasn’t “real America.”

But let’s pretend it’s only the “East Coast bubble” that’s intolerant.

Dude, that was 20 years ago and everyone thought she was a nut. The difference is that it is socially acceptable among east coast elites to bash middle America while they know little about it

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I moved to the east coast 20 years ago but I’m still bothered by all the stray insults I hear from my ‘liberal’ friends about the ‘flyover states’ which they assume are full of uncultured idiots. For the most past, they’ve never visited these places. I had lunch with a friend this week and she made comments like this ‘I can’t help it, those places are awful, I’m a proud snob, I like art and culture and education’ - as if others don’t? We also discussed politics, taxes, etc and even though she claims to be a socialist leaning Dem, she noted that she has ‘carefully saved and invested and why should I need to support others who haven’t been as careful?’ Meanwhile she has only worked intermittently her entire adult life, spends lavishly much of the time, and primarily lives from her now ex husbands money.

She talks a lot about how terrible Trump is and how he needs to be stopped. I noted that it seems to be people from a flyover state who are out on the streets more than where we live…

How do you deal with snobby clueless people like this? Any good comebacks?

And no, slow fade isn’t a good response. If I slow faded everyone who bugs me af times, I wouldn’t have any friends!

That’s nice. I’m from NYC and still remember the 2008 election, where Palin was running around saying NYC wasn’t “real America.”

But let’s pretend it’s only the “East Coast bubble” that’s intolerant.

Anonymous wrote:I moved to the east coast 20 years ago but I’m still bothered by all the stray insults I hear from my ‘liberal’ friends about the ‘flyover states’ which they assume are full of uncultured idiots. For the most past, they’ve never visited these places. I had lunch with a friend this week and she made comments like this ‘I can’t help it, those places are awful, I’m a proud snob, I like art and culture and education’ - as if others don’t? We also discussed politics, taxes, etc and even though she claims to be a socialist leaning Dem, she noted that she has ‘carefully saved and invested and why should I need to support others who haven’t been as careful?’ Meanwhile she has only worked intermittently her entire adult life, spends lavishly much of the time, and primarily lives from her now ex husbands money.

She talks a lot about how terrible Trump is and how he needs to be stopped. I noted that it seems to be people from a flyover state who are out on the streets more than where we live…

How do you deal with snobby clueless people like this? Any good comebacks?

And no, slow fade isn’t a good response. If I slow faded everyone who bugs me af times, I wouldn’t have any friends!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Agree with this 1000%.

-- from flyover state but have lived here for 40 years

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I left DC to move to a flyover state for work. Generally, it’s awesome here. And I love DC too. While I miss a lot about DC, I don’t miss the elite attitudes. The “I’m better than the masses” vibe and that the people who live in areas other than the coasts are idiots. I don’t miss that at all. But if I did miss, DCUM is always there to remind me.

Same here only to rural eastern NC, which getsa the same disrespect 'flyover' areas do.

I couldn't be happier. The people are the kindesat you'd ever meet and extremely generous. IDGAF that they voted for Trump. Theses are rule following goos manners people. I was gone until late last night and when I came home my 200 yard gravel drive way and been scraped and leveled. My neigbors was too so I texted him. His response? " Well, I was already doing mine so I thought I might as well do yours too! Should be good for another 5 years."

That's just the type of people we have down here. Good luck finding that attitude in Arlington.

I’m in Arlington and we all pitch in on our block. We have porch parties, bring in each others’ mail etc. when someone is traveling, shovel the older people’s driveways, share tools, etc. Sorry you didn’t have that ecperience but many of my friends in ARL have experienced the same. When I lived in Upstate NY my neighbors told my not to sell to black people.