Who is from the US and can talk me through the politics of the phrase "flyover country"?
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Replying to @DawnHFoster
it’s a phrase that instantly tells you someone fucking sucks
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Replying to @osamabishounen @KulturalMarx
I mean, that was my impression, but have also seen claims it's 'reclaimed'...
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Replying to @DawnHFoster
most of the “reclaimers” are just people who think they’re owning the coastal elites by parroting the heritage foundation
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Replying to @osamabishounen @DawnHFoster
sometimes non-coastal leftists use it to show disdain for liberal coastal elitism but you can usually guess based on context
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Replying to @osamabishounen @DawnHFoster
some leftists use it in a pejorative context but that’s because they suck
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Replying to @osamabishounen @DawnHFoster
generally the “flyover states” are also more white so it’s a bit of a synonym for the similarly loaded phrase “white working class”
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Ah, quelle surprise, same Brits who use it are ~very~ big on using that as a signifier yet never meeting them
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Replying to @DawnHFoster
a lot of “flyover” territory actually has a large (generally poor) minority population, but that’s not usually the intended connotation
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