The Coastal Elites Are Right, Actually - by A.M. Hickman

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Unfiltered Notes From Life in "Flyover Country"

Last week, I was tagged in a comment on Substack Notes by a subscriber who sought to “summon me” for the purpose of “defending rural America” from Jonathan Cioran when he posted the following: One of many problems for [the] American Right: Quality of life, on the whole, is still far better in coastal blue metros than anywhere else. Are these expensive? Yes. But they’re expensive for a reason. Traditional conservative policies for the most part don’t actually make life better for most people. Life in Texas is cheaper than California but it’s basically worse by every other metric, etc.…

The Coastal Elites Are Right, Actually - by A.M. Hickman

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