I liked how this article pretended like people flying over fly over country are interested somehow in the topography of Kansas.
"Honey look, there's a riverbed down there, but there doesn't appear to be any water."
Flipping his atlas to Kansas, "Well, this is where the Arkansas River should be. What the heck? What's this? There's water again, it's almost like there are two rivers. What shall we do when we get back home to Connecticut?"
"I don't know, dear. The chick who is dictating my dialogue knows absolutely nothing about our state except that it seems like rich people live there and commute to New York. So what we'll do when we get there is beyond her scope."
"Yes, the dictator is mocking a Kansas newspaper through the dialogue about how people flying over would be concerned about the state of a river all the while knowing that easterners, honestly the entire country, know so little about the Plains that the hypothetical concern in the article is inconceivable. Yet the mocking author can't really develop us, her characters, because of her ignorance about the east. Has the drink tray gone by? I want a bloody mary."
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the East coast liberal is often stereotyped as being out of touch and condescending toward plain, ordinary folks who are rural and conservative. East-coast liberals are stereotyped as being soft on crime and national security...just assuming(Wikipedia reference)The term liberal elite most often is applied to residents of the U.S. Northeast, especially New England, and to people with advanced degrees who are left leaning. Such people are perceived to be politically liberal, to lead a metropolitan and "fancy" lifestyle, and to be bookish or intellectual.
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