[notfromhere]

It's not the Midwest, it's rural areas everywhere. Coastal elite is just code word for urbanite.

I don't know if people are aware, but the Midwest does have cities and its city dwellers have more in common with city dwellers on either coast than they do with rural areas in their own state.

[OtterCoder]

As an urban Midwesterner, who has also lived on both coasts, you have less in common than you think.

[notfromhere]

as a chicagoan i disagree

[kgwgk]

That’s what they think :-)