It's not so nationally consistent as it seemed to be in the past. But what you're describing does seem to still be true for at least a lot of the fly-over stat

It's not so nationally consistent as it seemed to be in the past. But what you're describing does seem to still be true for at least a lot of the fly-over states. That's kind of a large part of what all the drama has been in the last one-two decades. Part of the country has left that (and more) all largely behind, while the rest are clutching desperately to that past as if it's the very thing that "made america great".