Posted on 06/16/2018 11:46:50 PM PDT by Hojczyk
On a blustery afternoon in April, I filed into a van along with 10 students from Harvard. We had just spent the last two days in Chicopee, Mass., where we had chatted with the police chief and his force, the mayor and his staff, small-business owners, waitresses and firemen about their struggles living in small-town America.
The undergrads were buzzing with their impressions. Chicopee is about 90 miles west of their prestigious university in Cambridge, but when it comes to shared experience, it might as well have been 1,000 light years away.
As they settled in, I looked at them.
So, I said, who do you think most of the people you just got to know voted for president?
None of the students had an answer. It hadnt come up in their conversations and they didnt know I had privately asked each person who theyd voted for.
So, I let a minute pass and told them.
Nearly every one of them voted for Trump.
My students looked stunned, at first. But then a recognition crossed their faces.
We were only a few days into a new course I had developed with Harvards Institute of Politics, called the Main Street Project, where students are immersed in small-town America. Even though these kids had almost all been raised in the United States, our journey sometimes felt like an anthropology course, as though they were seeing the rest of the country for the first time. And this was their opening lesson.
I have been a national political journalist for nearly 15 years. Whenever and wherever I travel in this country, I abide by a few simple rules: No planes, no interstates and no hotels.
And definitely no chain restaurants.
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Harvard Students......welcome to America. Its that huge country that exists between the Northeast and the Left Coast. You might want to get to know it some time.
Trump is, like FDR, born into wealth but able to relate to the common man.
Trump, in building his hotels and condos, had to relate to
construction people
Always like to get immersed in detail - is able to respect their talents
You really think Trump was born into wealth like FDR?
Define “wealth”.
We have not stayed in a hotel in many years so I too know B&Bs as we they are our first choice when traveling. Last year we added AirBnB to our options when we traveled over 5 months staying exclusively in B&B and AirBnB accommodations in the South. Of the 14 places we stayed, many of our stays were for extended periods or repeats of places we stayed earlier, only one was a gay couple. They were not flamboyant nor intrusive in any way. The other people staying at the house were varied in backgrounds but shared an interest in history so conversations at breakfast and tea was lively and educational. Actually each of the hosts at every place we stayed was friendly and offered something positive to our travel experience.
My husband and I close on our own B&B property in a couple weeks. I hope we are able to provide our guests a comfortable, relaxing stay with great food and stimulating conversations at the breakfast table, just as we have experienced on our stays with others.
Hmmm..... I thought Heartland was in Alberta
Because he HIRES the common man. He gets to know them all. He understands the common man because he’s not the snobbery elite that are too good to ever lower themselves to actually TALK to the door man, or waitress.
They admitted they had been fed a steady diet of stereotypes about small towns and their folk: backwards, no longer useful,
No longer useful.
Let that sink in.
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I have a simple rule, anything placed beyond criticism is most likely to be absolute crap.
So Harvard and other elites who place themselves on pedestals of their own making and then spend most of their time censoring others who object, yeah crap.
Do these precious children then think of people of color of little education or potential for education as “no longer useful?”
Our elite is a joke.
Not me!! I made her sleep in the car. It was Summer so you know.......
Lol! They go 90 miles west — still in Massachusetts — and think they’ve touched the soul of the Heartland? That’s like the lord of the manor going downstairs to see how the other half lives.
The elites and their MSM have been missing who we are for a long time. When Reagan won twice, they were shocked and appalled. “How could this happen”.
The little snowflakes should spend some time in the other LA (lower Alabama), middle Tennessee or East Texas for a while.
Maybe they would learn that they aren’t the only ones that matter and maybe learn some manners along the way.
Undergrad paper from Harvard, eh?
File 13.
Do these precious children then think of people of color of little education or potential for education as no longer useful?
I dont know about them. But the people teaching them certainly do.
The Left hates you and wants you dead.
Prepare accordingly.
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I don't. Never stayed at one, and can't imagine why somebody would want to.
I wouldn't feel entirely comfortable overnighting at my aunt Mildred's house, let alone some stranger's, with the proprietor dictating my sleep and dining regimen.
Why would someone find that environment preferable to a private hotel room with a lock on the door and a "do not disturb" sign at the ready?
From Wikipedia:
Trump’s paternal grandfather, Friedrich Trump, first immigrated to the United States in 1885 at the age of 16 and became a citizen in 1892. He amassed a fortune operating boom-town restaurants and boarding houses in the Seattle area and the Klondike region of Canada during its gold rush.[
Charles Murray documented this in his book “Coming Apart”. Liberals and especially liberal elites live in separate communities, go to different schools, have different career paths, and separate entertainment preferences. They truly live in a cultural bubble associated with the elite, so they look down on the “dumb” masses.
When I think of the heartland, I'm thinking some small town in Indiana or Nebraska.
A play on “Gorillas in the Mist”?
Oh, look, we went into the wild and met real conservatives. We’re not so bad. See, we went on an expedition ...
But 50-50 chance these kids will still protest Chickfila opening on campus and try to shut down the conservative club on campus bringing in Ben Shapiro.
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