But they were drowned out by praise, not only from some of the expected big city papers but from smaller towns.
They evidently think liberalism is a cosmopolitan thang.
If you ask most of the leftist elites, their view of "flyover country" is a bunch of Bible-thumping, inbred, illiterate hicks. Nevertheless, the newspapermen in these areas still yearn for the approval of the New York Slimes.