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One tweetstorm that perfectly captures the problem of being walled off to other communities
“Coastal elites” are in a bubble. So are white working-class Americans. See the full story (and the rest of Patrick’s tweets) here.
I grew up near San Francisco amid a significant amount of diversity but I’m raising my kids in Wisconsin. The diversity here is almost non-existent. When the majority of people travel, it’s within the state or to neighboring states with similar demographics. We lived here for a fucking DECADE before we got an “in” and made true friends because everybody socializes within their family or church circles. These are people who pride themselves on being friendly and neighborly, but are truly exclusive and have no interest in opening their lives to anyone who is an outsider. Their bubbles are tight and they are wildly unaware of how small-minded and uninformed on a national and global level they are.
The cities are literally the most diverse places in the country and they talk to US about “bubbles” while we pay for their literal bubbles.
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