Middle America: loves to say we don't know anything about them and what they need, then tells New Yorkers what's what when they think we all live in an episode of Friends or Law and Order or whatever their media consumption depiction of New York is. Where is the Omaha Register's miles of essays on understanding what drives the "coastal elite" vote or that, maybe, the vast majority of us dismissed as coastal elite are actually a bunch of pissed off, struggling people?
@SuzanEraslan You won't usually find papers like Omaha's or Lincoln's decrying coastal elitism outside of well-known, nationally syndicated dumb-asses on the opinion pages. The editorial policies of the urban newspapers, at least in Nebraska, tend to be pretty far left of the state's population.
Left-leaning urbanites in rural, middle-American states are erased by gerrymandering and the "permanent republican majority" initiative.
@SuzanEraslan You called out Nebraska, so I felt compelled to jump in, even though I largely agree with the sentiment.
I was successfully baited by "Omaha Register": Hey! The Register isn't the Omaha paper...!