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Re:Iowa ranks as the best state to live in America, U.S. New... by dragonwriter on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @10:04PM (#16480359)
> It's weird how people don't realize that the flyover states also have big, metropolitan cities.

Name one “big, metropolitan city” in something commonly portrayed as a “flyover state”.

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Re:Iowa ranks as the best state to live in America, U.S. New... by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @05:26PM (#16487726)
Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, San Antonio, Dallas.

Or my own Louisville, which is smaller than those but still plenty big at 780,000 people.

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Re:Iowa ranks as the best state to live in America, U.S. New... by MagnumOpus on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @03:50AM (#16481647)
Chicago
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Re:Iowa ranks as the best state to live in America, U.S. New... by dragonwriter on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @04:20AM (#16481778)
At least used in a political context, I've never seen “flyovee state” (which is mostly, in that context, a conservative stereotype of a liberal pejorative) used to refer to Illinois or the Midwest states to its east, only those to its west and the Western States not on the Pacific Coast.
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Re:Iowa ranks as the best state to live in America, U.S. New... by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @05:24PM (#16487711)
Flyover states are what you fly over on the way from Boston/New York/DC to Seattle/LA/SF. It's anything not near the Atlantic or Pacific coast, where the stereotypical maps say "HERE BE REDNECKS."
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