They aren't.

Anonymous wrote:Yuck! They voted for Trump in many places in the midwest.

And many of them didn’t, dummy. But way to be lazy!

Yuck! They voted for Trump in many places in the midwest.

Dullards need not apply. Funny, smart, decent all the live long day. I find myself having to take contracts out on the women who flirt with my funny, smart, not self absorbed but still successful DH. He is still good looking but older so not where he once was. If they knew about his bedroom skills, it would be even harder.

He loves and respects me so it’s not a real worry but humor is almost undefeated in my book.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there a different between urban Midwest (Esp. Chicago) and rural Midwest or smaller cities?

Yeah, pretty large difference. Then again, the Midwest has some large urban areas such as Chicago, Detroit, and others.

I come from Indiana, and there are some pretty significant variations even there. In Indianapolis itself, you have the norther suburbs which are pretty affluent, the city core which has a mix of young professionals and urban poor (often minorities), and the southern suburbs which are pretty Confederate. The rural southern part of the state trends more racist than the rural northern part of the state, but the rural parts still have a lot in common. Then you have smallish, formerly industrial cities scattered around with maybe a mix of what you'd see in Indianapolis, but on a smaller scale.

Anonymous wrote:LOL OP you clearly did not spend years living in rural Ohio. I am from Midwestern farm country. If you want a man who voted for Trump and is a cop or works construction, it’s a great place to look. If not, yes, you do need to try a bigger city - of which the Midwest has several of, as do other parts of the country. Life is not a Hallmark movie.

The areas outside of Cleveland aren’t so great either. The majority of kids in my husband’s high school don’t go to college. They all smoke and are over 200 pounds...the women too. Everyone is divorced or has a few out of wedlock children.

Anonymous wrote:Is there a different between urban Midwest (Esp. Chicago) and rural Midwest or smaller cities?

Yeah, pretty large difference. Then again, the Midwest has some large urban areas such as Chicago, Detroit, and others.

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Anonymous wrote:Both my late Dad and my husband are from the Midwest. Guys from there are respectful, generally not boastful, often hardworking "pull yourself up by bootstraps" types. They're great household partners - what they're not, IMO, is particularly emotional or emotionally supportive.

My dad is from the Northeast and is like this. He grew up receiving aid and was smart so he was given scholarships. He never forgot his roots. He was always for the underdog and treated the janitor the same as superiors at work. To this day, I can’t step in my office without the security guard, clerks or janitors ask after my dad and tell me a story about how he helped them. He was always modest and didn’t like braggarts. He always told us “when you get to the end zone, you want to act like you’ve been there before”. But, he was from the Silent Generation -1941.

So you're a beneficiary of nepotism? Got it.

Anonymous wrote:Oh God! It seems like not many here have actually been to the midwest. Michigan doesn't count by the way. The cities are horrible. The people can be nice on the surface but often have very, very strong views.

Not necessarily disagreeing but Michigan outside Detroit definitely counts.