There's a certain fakeness to well-off white liberals for instance that I don't think changes much based on regional stereotypes The ones in DC and the ones in LA and the ones in Cleveland superficially look and act different but it's the same
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I say this especially because of all the stuff I got when I moved from the DC area to Cleveland about how people in the Midwest are "real" and "genuine" and not "fake" ...Nah, not really In fact the people who say that kind of thing the most protest too much
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I mean yes I found hanging out with "policy wonks" with their credentials on their lanyards kind of weird when I lived in DC Just like it was extremely surreal trying to do the actor thing in LA where every single person you talk to has a stack of headshots in their apartment
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But not wanting to be a politician or a staffer, or not wanting to be an actor or a celebrity, isn't some magic formula to make you "genuine" Fakeness comes in a myriad of forms and proliferates at every level of the economy
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I mean we've been over this, right, like "Minnesota nice" isn't actually nice, it's just passive-aggressiveness born of living in a small town where you couldn't avoid anyone for any real length of time due to the harsh winters so you had to pretend
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having family on both coasts the only difference I really feel is the sense of driving time, like everyone on the East coast is like "a 30 minute drive is such a long time" and everyone on the West coast is like "2 hours isn't a bad commute at all"
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So true! I am amazed at how far Californians will go on a weekend and how much of their state they know and visit regularly. I’ve lived in DC for a very long time but I’ve never visited Richmond (other than for filing). I’ve only been to Charlottesville once. Etc.
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I think it’s also worth pointing out that “the east coast” is like four or five cultural regions, and “the west coast” has a few as well. But it’s fun to say things that make people from the west coast mad
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