“Most Swampers are puffed-up and full of themselves. They would not deign themselves to living in cultural backwaters like Des Moines, Amarillo or Pocatello. They’d quit first. And frankly that’s a win for us all.”
I agree with you 100%.
I had a career in the tech industry and eventually had 11 employees under me, all at least 2,000 miles away (think gaming industry).
My manager, Johnny, in Delaware drove a Mustang and had a rented house in a neighborhood that was, uh, muh...
We flew Johnny out to Corporate HQ in Montana (for training) and had him stay at another employees parents house who knew Johnny well - 20 acres in the Bridger Mountain Range with SPECTACULAR views (likely $1.5 million today).
All he could do was to look at the view and wince. When asked what he thought of the view he replied that it was horrible, the worst thing he’d ever seen.
I believe we need these ‘swamp types’ to move to the flat-lands and loose their minds!
I mean look at Strozk and Page. They thought of Loudoun County, Virginia, which was like 40 miles away, as some Hillbilly Hollow. The condescension just dripped from their mouths. They would literally die if forced to move to Arkansas or someplace.