There's no doubt in my mind that people on the West Coast - L.A. particularly - and the East Coast have no clue at all about what's happening outside their own little bailiwick. And they think everybody is stupid because they are not sophisticated.
Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didn't run into any rednecks.
I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.
No, I don't think about the myth of the West. It's not the kind of thinking I do. That's more suited to people who live in big towns on the West Coast or East Coast, people who stay under a roof, in a room, all the time.
Between the two dream coasts, we're just called flyover country... If you aren't known as an amorphous Eastern Seaboard writer, you're dismissed as a regional author.
I want to make sure that ours is a party that is focusing on both middle class issues and not becoming a party of our two coasts.
Not everyone in Santa Monica is a well-heeled, juice-cleansing, Prius-driving yogini, but for better or worse, that is the city's dominant chord.
I like Tom Wolfe's description of the country: There's America. The coasts are like the parentheses. In between is the country.
People like me who are here in flyover country, we're tired of East Coast moderates.
