Some of the smartest people I've met grew up in the midwest. Your comment is part of the problem: it paints a large, diverse region with a single derogatory bru

Some of the smartest people I've met grew up in the midwest. Your comment is part of the problem: it paints a large, diverse region with a single derogatory brush, and it additionally hints that everyone who disagrees with the standard bay area political perspective must be uneducated, if not outright malicious. This kind of thinking is what these VCs are trying to escape.