What Has ‘Flyover Country’ Got to Complain About?
20th February 2019
An interesting piece, with a number of flaws.
I think the accompanying picture particularly unfortunate. Presumably it’s supposed to illustrate that people in ‘flyover country’ are physically unattractive, but if you add a number of tattoos and a piercing or two it could be any denizen of a Left Coast ‘vibrant’ neighborhood. Middle America has no lock on ugly.
One obvious lacuna is no mention of rich people. Rich people don’t live in the country, they live in cities; and not small cities, either, unless those small cities are right next to big cities. The rich people in Dallas don’t live in Parker or Murphy, they live in Highland Park — and so on around the country. Think about that for a bit.