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    emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 29 Apr 2014

    My take, as a non-native: The Midwest is a dumb concept reified by coasters to describe great unknown but wholesome flyover people.

    7:45 AM - 29 Apr 2014
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      2. Meredith Clark‏Verified account @MeredithLClark 29 Apr 2014
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @emptywheel As a native: it's also a category used to protect local rasicm (see hatred for "coasties" at state schools)

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 29 Apr 2014
        Replying to @MeredithLClark

        @MeredithLClark Oh, I WAS a coastie at a state school (albeit for grad school, which is different).

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      4. Meredith Clark‏Verified account @MeredithLClark 29 Apr 2014
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @emptywheel Boo! Hiss! Where is your North Face gear? Am I hating you right? I can't remember.

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      5. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 29 Apr 2014
        Replying to @MeredithLClark

        @MeredithLClark Don't think I have any, tho I do have REI gear. Mostly buy at local gear store now tho.

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      6. Meredith Clark‏Verified account @MeredithLClark 29 Apr 2014
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @emptywheel I think that means you're basically fully converted.

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      7. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 29 Apr 2014
        Replying to @MeredithLClark

        @MeredithLClark And you? Are you losing your roots? ;p

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      8. Meredith Clark‏Verified account @MeredithLClark 29 Apr 2014
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @emptywheel Based on how territorial I get when these twitter fights start up, I think the roots are still deep.

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      9. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 29 Apr 2014
        Replying to @MeredithLClark

        @MeredithLClark Thus the reification! So many wholesome people on coasts taking ID from being from Midwest. Geography built on nostalgia.

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      2. Jay Monaco‏ @MonadnockWizard 29 Apr 2014
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @emptywheel it's definitely real, it's just that there are 2 or 3 of them. And Missouri isn't part of them, no matter what they tell you

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      3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 29 Apr 2014
        Replying to @MonadnockWizard

        @MonadnockWizard That's sort of my point abt living in Great Lakes. Different from Plains states. Different from Appalachia.

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      4. Jay Monaco‏ @MonadnockWizard 29 Apr 2014
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @emptywheel then Missouri is just basically Northern Arkansas, aka The South

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      5. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 29 Apr 2014
        Replying to @MonadnockWizard

        @MonadnockWizard Problem solved!

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      2. Matt Pearce  🦅‏Verified account @mattdpearce 29 Apr 2014
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @emptywheel noooo. The Midwest is real.

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      3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 29 Apr 2014
        Replying to @mattdpearce

        @mattdpearce So are you from here and left, and I'm from the coasts and came here and stayed, then?

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      4. Matt Pearce  🦅‏Verified account @mattdpearce 29 Apr 2014
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @emptywheel that's right. Actually even have two accents for phone interviewing: college snob and back-home.

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      5. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 29 Apr 2014
        Replying to @mattdpearce

        @mattdpearce Priceless. Sadly, I'm fr relatively unaccented places & never learned to say "pop." So I sound like bossy coastie lady anyway.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. Matt Pearce  🦅‏Verified account @mattdpearce 29 Apr 2014
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @emptywheel I say "soda" when around strangers to limit embarrassment. Assimilation!

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      2. Matt Pearce  🦅‏Verified account @mattdpearce 29 Apr 2014
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @emptywheel you could also describe Midwesterners as people who don't use the word "flyover"

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      3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 29 Apr 2014
        Replying to @mattdpearce

        @mattdpearce One of my favorite uses of flyover when I was on Washington Journal & caller fr OK said I was coastie distanced from flyover.

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      2. Lizz "Angry Democratic Mobster" Winstead‏Verified account @lizzwinstead 29 Apr 2014
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @emptywheel I am coming to Ann Arbor today...

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      3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 29 Apr 2014
        Replying to @lizzwinstead

        @lizzwinstead That's right, for @Eclectablog's thing. I'm not THERE anymore, but thought about coming over for it. Is it tonight?

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