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fellow American here, re: "most states consider each other rivals," as a person who's lived all over the US, I strongly believe that feeling is in one direction

fellow American here, re: "most states consider each other rivals," as a person who's lived all over the US, I strongly believe that feeling is in one direction. There is all this rhetoric in red-state politics, governors shipping immigrants to NYC, Texans obsessing over Nancy Pelosi, babble about "east coast values." That shit simply doesn't exist in the other direction. It's true that coastal elites harbor a lot of resentment toward "rednecks" for things like the recent abortion ruling, but… they just don't obsess the same way. Mostly they just don't think about them at all.

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rayiner 4y ago
> That shit simply doesn't exist in the other direction. It's true that coastal elites harbor a lot of resentment toward "rednecks" for things like the recent abortion ruling It certainly does exist when they think folks in red states are in a position to exert control over the national culture. Do you remember the Bush administration? Or the beginning of Trump’s presidency? People were pretty obsessive about him here in DC before he even did anything.
- Eric_WVGG 4y ago
  I'm not talking about individuals, I'm talking about masses of people. Of course blue state people hated Bush, and Trump, and Reagan… I'm talking about this weird notion that I hear from southerners that people in the city "look down on them." They don't. They don't think about them at all. I'm not sure which is worse.
dragonwriter 4y ago
> It’s true that coastal elites harbor a lot of resentment toward “rednecks” for things like the recent abortion ruling Nah, the abortion ruling is a product of coastal elites; there aren’t any rednecks on the Supreme Court.
- rayiner 4y ago
  That’s true. GOP Supreme Court picks have skewed far more towards elite libertarians than the actual GOP base. But Justice Barrett is a Midwestern church mom, which is a core GOP constituency.
  - reducesuffering 4y ago
    And Clarence Thomas didn't move to DC until age 31, saying of his stint at Yale "I peeled a fifteen-cent sticker off a package of cigars and stuck it on the frame of my law degree to remind myself of the mistake I'd made by going to Yale. I never did change my mind about its value."

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rayiner 4y ago

> That shit simply doesn't exist in the other direction. It's true that coastal elites harbor a lot of resentment toward "rednecks" for things like the recent abortion ruling It certainly does exist when they think folks in red states are in a position to exert control over the national culture. Do you remember the Bush administration? Or the beginning of Trump’s presidency? People were pretty obsessive about him here in DC before he even did anything.

Eric_WVGG 4y ago
I'm not talking about individuals, I'm talking about masses of people. Of course blue state people hated Bush, and Trump, and Reagan… I'm talking about this weird notion that I hear from southerners that people in the city "look down on them." They don't. They don't think about them at all. I'm not sure which is worse.

dragonwriter 4y ago

> It’s true that coastal elites harbor a lot of resentment toward “rednecks” for things like the recent abortion ruling Nah, the abortion ruling is a product of coastal elites; there aren’t any rednecks on the Supreme Court.

rayiner 4y ago
That’s true. GOP Supreme Court picks have skewed far more towards elite libertarians than the actual GOP base. But Justice Barrett is a Midwestern church mom, which is a core GOP constituency.
- reducesuffering 4y ago
  And Clarence Thomas didn't move to DC until age 31, saying of his stint at Yale "I peeled a fifteen-cent sticker off a package of cigars and stuck it on the frame of my law degree to remind myself of the mistake I'd made by going to Yale. I never did change my mind about its value."