I frankly don’t understand Iowa either.
In fact, I don’t really understand anyone from that general area of the country to be perfectly honest.
Maybe THIS will explain it.
“I don’t really understand anyone from that general area of the country to be perfectly honest.”
You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.
The Iowa, she is a strange duck. Land of corn and home of John Deere, the economic base is an odd mixture of industrial and agricultural. The farmers voted Republican, their sons who went to work for agricultural machine manufacturers International Harvester and Oliver, joined the UAW and voted Democrat. The state has been varying shades of purple since about the time shortly after the Civil War, perhaps, never quite as radical as the Progressives of Minnesota and Wisconsin, but never as conservative as Kansas. A large admixture of Scandinavian immigrants, more liberal in their outlook than the dour Germans who had arrived first, only added to the texture of purple coloration, and the state is filled with “grumpy old men”.
And none of them has any concept of what life in a “big city” would be like. Almost nobody is more than a generation or so away from the farm, and the older generation grew up going to country schools and making a trip into town maybe once or twice a month.
Evangelicals duped by a “Christian” cult.
Romney V. 2.
Iowa just wants to be first. If they are first, they can give the MSM a chance to chant "Iowa" longer than anyone else
Truth be know Iowa has sold their souls for Archer Daniels Midland and the Ethanol Lobbyist.
Iowa equates with this Idiots Out Wandering Around. Does this help to understand Iowa.
I frankly don’t understand Iowa either.
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Having grown up in the Midwest, my assessment is that Carson’s calm demeanor and religious narrative is very appealing to Christian conservative Iowans. Unfortunately for the country, we need a guy who will come out of the chute like a fire breathing bucking bronc, not a mild mannered, polite diplomat. This country just does not have the time to twaddle.