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Rust Belt or Fly Over Country? I dislike Rust belt most. (Original Post) IADEMO2004 May 2019 OP
I dislike any meme that ridicules any part abqtommy May 2019 #1
I've lived in flyover places so I dislike them the most lunatica May 2019 #2
I live in the Midwest Bettie May 2019 #4
"The Rust Belt" and "Flyover Country" are not coextensive jberryhill May 2019 #3
Okay,most Midwesterner's Wellstone ruled May 2019 #5
What are you even asking? maxsolomon May 2019 #6

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
1. I dislike any meme that ridicules any part
Mon May 20, 2019, 06:18 PM
May 2019

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of our population. I've lived in South Dakota and there are many good people there, people just like you and me and I dislike anybody using contemptuous terms for them.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
2. I've lived in flyover places so I dislike them the most
Mon May 20, 2019, 06:23 PM
May 2019

Midwesterners are really ignorant about the world. This is all terrible stereotyping but I wouldn’t live in the Midwest ever again! I met enough of them to see how they earned that stereotype.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
3. "The Rust Belt" and "Flyover Country" are not coextensive
Mon May 20, 2019, 06:28 PM
May 2019

I believe your question is ambiguous, and might be understood in two comically different ways.
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
5. Okay,most Midwesterner's
Mon May 20, 2019, 06:58 PM
May 2019

tend to be some what aware of what is happening around the world. Just their personal nature to be cautious about certain subjects when speaking with a stranger . And yes,there are those who are total Ignorant Idiots that are roaming the countryside waiting for the Net to drop on them.

Most of the Major Metro areas of the Upper Midwest have a clue,it is when you leave for the Countryside that one begins to wonder what the hell happened.

If my body could handle the Winters,well the upper Midwest is still the Greatest.

If you want to find the Clueless,Go South or Southwest. Thankfully we have transplanted Midwestern's in Responsible Political Positions,sure beats those brain washed brain dead Right wingers.

maxsolomon

(33,310 posts)
6. What are you even asking?
Mon May 20, 2019, 07:46 PM
May 2019

Which term is most offensive?

Or which part of the country we dislike the most?

I assume the former, but please be specific.

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