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The Iowa caucuses always do a wonderful job of bringing out the sneering disdain that progressives have for Middle America.
In December 2011, University of Iowa journalism professor and UC-Berekley grad Stephen Bloom wrote an essay entitled “Observations From 20 Years of Iowa Life” for The Atlantic, that provoked outrage from many Iowans, who were offended by Bloom’s negative tone, broad stereotypes, and factual errors.
Michelle Malkin summed up the article as “a 6,000-word jeremiad, littered with factual errors, against his home state’s residents. The abridged version:
Raaaaaaaacists! Hicks! Christians! Argggh!”
Bloom also once wrote a book — Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America — that was heavily criticized by Jewish leaders for having an anti-religious bias.
According to Bloom,
“Those who stay in rural Iowa are often the elderly waiting to die.”
The median age in Iowa is 38; nationally, it’s 36.7.
The Hispanic News website joined in the stereotyped bashing:
“In Diverse and Urban Nation, Time to Kick Iowa White, Racist Farmers to Curb.”
NBC Nightly News chimed in, saying Iowa is:
“Too white, too evangelical, too rural.”
Census statistics show that the majority of Iowans are urban, not rural. Out of a population of 3 million people statewide, some 90,000 (3%) are farming families.
But who gives a crap about facts when there are racial and class wars to incite?
According to Bloom, the Iowans who aren’t toothless droolers with one foot in the grave are:
“(a)n assortment of waste-toids and meth addicts with pale skin and rotted teeth or those who quixotically believe, like Little Orphan Annie, that ‘the sun will come out tomorrow.'”
Bloom also wrote about his home state:
“The food is awful, the people are stout, and a lot of them smoke.”
One is forced to ponder why Bloom lives in Iowa.
Once upon a time (1992), he was press secretary and speechwriter for the Democratic Mayor of that Progressive Mecca, San Francisco.
And for a while, he got to be a visiting scholar at Columbia.
Perhaps the fact that he didn’t make good on either coast has something to do with why he’s so bitter about the one state where someone was willing to hire him.
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SOURCES:
Iowa-Bashing Snobs and Sore Losers By Michelle Malkin – Jan 04, 2012
http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2012/01/04/iowabashing_snobs_and_sore_losers/
Stephen Bloom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Bloom
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