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Re:On Being Midwestern: The Burden of Normality by jdonaldson on Thursday November 16, 2017 @12:51PM (#15714772)
I would agree with that, and folks from those areas probably take more grief from their neighbors than what we deal with.
Re:On Being Midwestern: The Burden of Normality by jackhack on Thursday November 16, 2017 @05:05PM (#15717106)
Chapel Hill, NC... Atlanta, GA... Austin, TX... New York City,NY

Yes, are all despised by their rural neighbors. And vice-versa. But the bias is bidirectional: Those in the cities look at the rural folks with just as much contempt and disgust as those folks in the country look at the cities. Perhaps more.

Re:On Being Midwestern: The Burden of Normality by weberc2 on Thursday November 16, 2017 @09:57PM (#15718568)
An often overlooked aspect of inter-group conflict: it's often made out to be unidirectional but it rarely is.