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The Isolation In America's Heartland Is Exacerbated When You Don't Conform

Boys Don’t Cry

In the middle of the North American continent, there is a wide-open barren place called the Great Plains. The underpopulated prairie and grassland is often disdainfully called “Flyover Country,” the flat vastness coastal elites see from their airplane windows while flying between their cosmopolitan lives in California and New York. The no…