Why, Oh Why is Iowa so Iowhite?

Taki's Magazine ^ | Jan 7, 2012 | The Editors

[caveat emptor]

On New Year’s Day, NBC honking head Andrea Mitchell tried making America hip to the Hawkeye State’s unforgivable lack of hipness:

The rap on Iowa: it doesn’t represent the rest of the country—too white, too evangelical, too rural.

This isn’t the first time Ms. Mitchell—presumably a reporter rather than some wacked-out urban-supremacist sockpuppet—has made such a statement. In 2008 she chuckled while wondering why Barack Obama would bother to campaign in Southwest Virginia:

This is real [laughs] redneck, sort of, um, bordering on Appalachia country.

[caveat emptor]

Some interesting facts about Iowa, including that Des Moines is the USA’s richest urban area.

[muawiyah]

Two uninteresting facts about Andrea Mitchell ~ (1) She’s a Fascist, and (2) She’s a pig.

[Leep]

If Andrea Mitchell caught on fire

[newheart]

Why, Oh Why is Iowa so Iowhite?

Well, they are Caucusians.

[kjo]

Mitchell personifies what’s wrong with the MSM: arrogant, isolated, narrowly educated.

[ozzymandus]

Mitchell is as stupid as she is ugly. Ever see her in profile? Woof! Besides, Iowa is fairly liberal as the midwest goes. Let her go to Oklahoma and spew her elitist crap and see what happens.

[airborne]

Two uninteresting facts about Andrea Mitchell ~ (1) She’s a Fascist, and (2) She’s a pig.

And she's white! Probably a rich whitey too!

[lonestar]

They haven’t started busing Blacks in?

[TLI]

Let her go to Oklahoma and spew her elitist crap and see what happens.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

They would probably pass an actual law banning her from re-entering the State.

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[Mike Darancette]

The rap on Iowa: it doesn’t represent the rest of the country—too white, too evangelical, too rural.

Obama carried IA in 2008, if he loses it in 2012 it is his fault.

The rap on Mitchell: she is too stupid. Making disparaging statements about states Obama needs to win is not helpful.

[lonestar]

Andrea Mitchell is Mrs. Alan Greenspan.

[junta]

Detroit too black? Is she dumber than a box of rocks or what? And to think there are some conservatives who think she is something to be respected, now that is a sin.

[chris_bdba]

Honestly what do these reporters expect?If blacks are only 18% of 300,000,000 that means that many places would not have anyone nearby who was black.What do liberal reporters want? Blacks to live on busses to get place to place?

[leapfrog0202]

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Since it’s just one state over, why doesn’t she wonder why Chicago is so black?

Hmm?

[rex regnum insanit]

I’ve said it before; as a group Manhattan dwellers are the most provincial, bigoted, and closed minded bunch of Wahoos you’ll ever find. ...And I’m a NYer!

[Elsiejay]

It anguishes me to even glancingly defend Andrea M., but I believe she was merely explaining why the population of Iowa, demographically and culturally speaking, should not be taken as representative of the population of America, taken as a whole. She was not opining that she would prefer Iowa to be less white, less Christian, or less rural, or that Iowa ought to be chastized or dissed for being what it is.
Incidentally, I like Iowa as she is. But, then, my Minnesota cousins say that the best thing to come out of Iowa is I-35, and next Michelle Bachman.

[caveat emptor]

If blacks are only 18% of 300,000,000

Not to disagree with you, but it's more like 12%.

What do liberal reporters want? Blacks to live on buses to get place to place?

I hear they do in cases where some bused in AA voters could change election results.

[caveat emptor]

but I believe she was merely explaining why the population of Iowa, demographically and culturally speaking, should not be taken as representative of the population of America, taken as a whole.

If you read the article you'll find that notion to be thoroughly debunked, with linked documentation, except for the"white" part.

From the article:
So in truth, Iowa isn’t all that freakishly small, evangelical, or rural. Which leaves us with “too white.”