After I returned home to the mountains of North Carolina after 10 years of living in Los Angeles, I caught up with an old friend and employer of mine who said something I have never forgotten about the gap between coastal elites and Middle America. “A whole lot more of us Red State-types have spent real time in their cities,” he said. “Many of us vacation there, we go to school there, and all of us are constantly exposed to their culture through movies, television and the news media. But urban folks and coastal elites almost never do the reverse, they never spend any real time out here with us. So who are the true provincials?”
Indeed.
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