Politics Midwest perception of the West Coast

I worked for a Company located in Wisconsin, for 30 years, staunch Union. I would spend many weeks a year there for meetings and conferences.
I must say, most of the Dem union members think we Left coasters are a bunch of radical, anything goes crazies. Most mid westerners feel that way to be honest.
I know for a fact that a good percentage voted differently his last time because they are more moderate in their thinking with politics and tired of losing jobs oversee's.
It will be interesting to see who the Dems elevate as their pride candidate, because it will make all the difference. If they go extreme left, mid west goes moderate and pick up more den votes than last time around.The media on both sides are not presenting a balance that most in midwest would like.

 

I grew up in the Midwest and the folks in western Iowa I grew up around were people of few words...never talked about politics or religion or even who they voted for.my own parents kept it to themselves..that was private..they talked about the weather, sports, crops and not much about geography...any outsiders were called New Yorkers...farmers had a saying...never sell anything to those New Yorkers...the Amish where I grew up said the same but called them the English instead of New Yorkers.

 

I'd love to see the Capital of the country move to a place like Des Moines...you'd have a lot of rich lawyers and lobbyists who wouldn't want to live there and it would be so much more centrally located for the country...our country has a very, very east coast dominant political slant

 

I grew up in Oregon. Left the state in the mid 70's. Don't even recognize the place anymore.
I have taken the MarAzul up every river in the state that is navigable. I call the place the State of Dereliction now.

 

I feel that way about almost everywhere I've lived...San Diego had orange and lemon groves in the middle of the city in the 70s and I rented a house there for 80 bucks a month….now it's a metropolis

 

A lovely place it was.

 

Here's the thing, you only know the conservative side.

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As far as jobs and Midwesterners concerns...agriculture lost more jobs than anybody with the trade wars...we shipped something overseas that wasn't manufacturing...it was produce, soy beans, meat, dairy, etc.....now we're paying farmers 12 billion from their losses to still farm...without a market of billions of consumer to ship to.