It's a joke, but if you lived here like I do you'd start to get it. This is a state full of rural, aging, declining communities. There's no productivity and nothing to be proud of--just industrial agriculture poisoning our air, rivers, lakes, and children. The people in this state offer nothing to rest of the nation except cheap corn. Those with any sense are getting out, and those that remain just desperately want to close their eyes and ears to the terrible reality around them. I've lived all over the country, but until moving here I'd never been surrounded by so many people so fanatically committed to their own ignorance.
Yeah, IA is interesting - it's a bit what I expected but also not. Though it seems like the perfect microcosm of the states where people are leaving, leading it to be majority old and white.
