Opinion by Michelle Maynard: “My sense is that it started with the pandemic, when millions of people in the big coastal population centers suddenly realized how dependent they are on a largely out-of-sight America.”
“Since I was 17, I’ve been working in public radio, and I’ve always thought it had a coastal bias,” Hobson, with whom I worked when he was a co-host of NPR’s “Here & Now,” tells me. “The thing is, so many important things happen in the middle of the country.”
But Hobson, who grew up in central Illinois, cautions against lumping non-coastal the United States together under the one umbrella. “Look, Phoenix is not the same as Des Moines, and is not the same as Nashville and Cincinnati and Cleveland and Detroit. They’re all very different places, but they are all part of this country” — and “all have a lot of power in determining” its future.
My sense is that “flyover” country started to become unignorable when the pandemic started: Suddenly, in the big population centers on the coasts people woke up to how much they depend on largely out-of-sight states. Alarms went off over bottlenecks at
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