Posted on 06/26/2018 6:31:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
My son often won Trivia at a Downtown Baltimore establishment while he did his Residency at Hopkins, the patrons were always amazed he was from Oklahoma !!!
Probably equally amazed he’d been the #1 pick of several prestigious programs ...
“Spend a month in rural Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas or Nebraska”
Yeah. That was my thought. Western Massachusetts? Try Harvard, Nebraska. In February. Ask the folks how they feel about transgenderism or other hot topics in Cambridge.
Oh and volunteer to get up at 5 AM to slop the hogs. In the cold. Get a bit of local flavor...
I have a hard time equating Pennsylvania with ‘America’s Heartland’.
“I abide by a few simple rules: no planes, no interstates and no hotels.”
At least they are trying———pretty long ride to Nebraska from Massachusetts.
Upstate New York would have many of the same type of people that you would find in Nebraska.
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Sad part about this is they probably got back to the dorms, someone asked them whether the people they met were hicks and the students answered that these people were as dumb as a bag of hammers.
If they didn’t leave Massachusetts, they still haven’t seen the heartland.
“If they didn’t leave Massachusetts, they still haven’t seen the heartland.”
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What,exactly,is the “heartland”?
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Yeah, I totally get that. That is why I opened it up to 100 miles (or more) from an NFL city. Here in Denver, 100 miles is just about the length of the North South front range corridor on I-25.
150 miles from a major city also works for me!
Did they wear pith helmets and hire native guides?
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I was born and raised in a small town in Michigan then was stationed in Kansas for six years then North Dakota for almost eight years.
If these children had to go into the plains states and live for a few months they would really have a change of heart, or at least know a bit more about the real America.
I have had to live in the DC area for many years and wish I could have spent my career back in the Plains or Mid-West. I hate metropolitan areas.
I just had a thought. Maybe conservatives have been going about this all wrong. Perhaps the way for conservatives to get the attention of future generations is to have a “diversity outreach program”. I am thinking the top MBA programs, the top Journalist schools and perhaps even the top Political Science schools.
Offer scholarships / summer internships to students of those programs. Some program that would get them out of their ivory towers and get them out to the towns in rural America to do some real work ... can even be in their field. Intern as a summer reporter for the “Mayberry Times” or Intern in the Mayor’s office of Harvard, Kansas or Intern at the farmer’s Co-op in Midland Texas.
Part of the program would require that they take classes in basic first aid, basic pistol/rifle safety, basic car care and other living skills (get an apartment, balance a checkbook, home economics stuff, etc)
They went all the way to a few miles down the Mass Turnpike to “rough it” in the heartland of New England. Wow, that took courage.
This is genius.
The last time I checked the Mass Pike was an interstate,
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I once drove from Chicago to Champaigne Urbana. Within an hour you were in farmland.
You are right. I suspect farmers in NY are much the same as farmers in Iowa or eastern Oregon.
However, it was humorous that they thought going to a town within Massachusetts was ‘getting to know’ the flyover country folks.
Exit 5 is Chicopee. Turns out that even interstates can be used to get places inside the state.
“Exit 5 is Chicopee. Turns out that even interstates can be used to get places inside the state.
For heaven’s sake,I know that—even Hawaii has interstates-——my point was that they said in the article they would NOT use interstates.
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