@emptywheel As a native: it's also a category used to protect local rasicm (see hatred for "coasties" at state schools)
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@MeredithLClark Oh, I WAS a coastie at a state school (albeit for grad school, which is different). -
@emptywheel Boo! Hiss! Where is your North Face gear? Am I hating you right? I can't remember. -
@MeredithLClark Don't think I have any, tho I do have REI gear. Mostly buy at local gear store now tho. -
@emptywheel I think that means you're basically fully converted. -
@MeredithLClark And you? Are you losing your roots? ;p -
@emptywheel Based on how territorial I get when these twitter fights start up, I think the roots are still deep. -
@MeredithLClark Thus the reification! So many wholesome people on coasts taking ID from being from Midwest. Geography built on nostalgia. - 2 more replies
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@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 -
@MonadnockWizard That's sort of my point abt living in Great Lakes. Different from Plains states. Different from Appalachia. -
@emptywheel then Missouri is just basically Northern Arkansas, aka The South -
@MonadnockWizard Problem solved!
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@emptywheel noooo. The Midwest is real. -
@mattdpearce So are you from here and left, and I'm from the coasts and came here and stayed, then? -
@emptywheel that's right. Actually even have two accents for phone interviewing: college snob and back-home. -
@mattdpearce Priceless. Sadly, I'm fr relatively unaccented places & never learned to say "pop." So I sound like bossy coastie lady anyway. -
@emptywheel I say "soda" when around strangers to limit embarrassment. Assimilation!
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@emptywheel you could also describe Midwesterners as people who don't use the word "flyover" -
@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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@emptywheel I am coming to Ann Arbor today... -
@lizzwinstead That's right, for@Eclectablog's thing. I'm not THERE anymore, but thought about coming over for it. Is it tonight? - 1 more reply
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