My take, as a non-native: The Midwest is a dumb concept reified by coasters to describe great unknown but wholesome flyover people.
@MeredithLClark Oh, I WAS a coastie at a state school (albeit for grad school, which is different).
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@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. -
@emptywheel And the family ties, and the fact that coastal $ precarity could lead to ejection at any moment. -
@MeredithLClark Yup! And that those who stayed home are paying $1200/mo for superb places. THAT's what Midwest is, IMVHNNO.
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