“I did a small amount of background on Rockwell just to get an idea
of what he was about. Little doubt his connections were with the
Heartland of America and his art bears that out.”
Believe it or not I saw some of it in West Los Angeles.
Just like what my grandparents told me about the four years following
Dec. 7, 1941 in their area of southern Kansas and north-central Oklahoma.
Of course, this was after 9-11 and evaporated within a month or so.
Sadly, they remembered the West Los Angeles residents (in a vast
majority) remembered they were anti-American Democrats and returned
to the fold of Rep. Henry Waxman.
I suppose a big part of the problem today is that it's difficult for most folks to make a decent(depending upon your definition) living in the small towns, hamlets and villages in the country. I suspect also that corporate farming and ranching have done as much to contribute to the decline in rural areas as anything else. One man with several million dollars worth of equipment can match the output of what dozens of people used to produce.
Still in all, flyover country is alive and well.