This is why @SalenaZito encourages coastal journalists not to fly over but to drive thru ...
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One day I hope we take folks from heartland hamlets and introduce them to America’s cities. That’d help too.
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The "NYC/DC folks know nothing about the heartland" conversation is so one-sided & unhelpful. I've worked in Manhattan & the Midwest. (1/2)
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And I found that the people in NYC had more real life experience with the Midwest than the opposite. (2/2)
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Exactly. Always amazed when someone in a town of 10,000 says: “you live in a bubble”
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Yes. At the same time, there are a lot of people in "flyover country" who live in cities (like where I grew up). It's not one thing.
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And yet here we are, anguishing to reach out to The Mysterious Trump Voter, as if there is no obligation in the other direction.
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It also assumes that people in Big City USA aren't already in relationship/familiar with those voters. Many of us are.
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These travel pieces illustrate a virtue of the urbanites: they’re curious about others. The heartlanders, not so much.
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Close-minded, supercilious curiosity about others is no virtue at all. How many urbanites consider heartlanders their intellectual equals?
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