re: #4 Barefoot Grin

CL’d, but not really an important post. I just have lots of time to kill:

Hanging in the Indy airport. I’ve spent so much of my life in Indiana that it feels oddly like home, though I was visiting my parents in Illinois this weekend. I drove through Danville, Il to get here this morning. Danville once had a relatively strong industrial base, but no more. Danville gave us Gene Hackman, Dick and Jerry Van Dyke, Donald O’Connor, and Bobby Short. It was union and blue collar, but I suspect it was strongly pro-Nixon back in the day. Now it looks like a place where they vote Trump and celebrate “liberal tears.” A lot of similar communities in Indiana, too. There’s no point in interviewing them now in diners. The incubation period was in the late 1960s. We’re all “real Americans.” As a scruffy middle-aged white guy, I can blend in easily. I suggest to the media that you can find people like me in places like Danville who would vote for Warren or perhaps Klobuchar. Look for those people to interview. What challenges do they face? How can they convince their neighbors to stop voting against their own self-interest. That’s the story.

My grandparents hometown in PA went from being for Mondale to being for Trump. It makes me sad because I really think the people there have gone Republican since the politics of resentment appeal to them.