Midwest Things:
Country music radio seems to sum up pretty well the zeitgeist of heartland-America and I’m fairly certain people here can smell my suspicious thin Yankee blood, knowing that I share basically none of their values. I quite literally don’t *understand* how people/family/human relationships work here.
The open space that these folks so easily take for granted makes me uneasy. Out here, the wind has a chance to really wheel up and whip you as you metaphorically stand vulnerably alone in the field. This is probably why these people form such tight bonds with oneanother. It’s the opposite of the way in which city folk form groups to protect themselves from other people.
