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The View From Flyover Country: Dispatches From the Forgotten America

by Sarah Kendzior · 24 Apr 2015 · 172pp · 48,747 words

decided to collect the essays I had written for Al Jazeera, to call the collection The View from Flyover Country, and to sell it on the Internet. After the 2016 election, The View from Flyover Country became an online bestseller. This was partially due to the fact that I had predicted nearly all developments

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because I focused on those who suffered, many people turned to my book for an explanation. Today, the problems I exposed in The View from Flyover Country, which were controversial five years ago, are now a part of mainstream political discourse. This would be a matter of profound relief if I believed

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publishing world, this makes me an anomaly. In the 2015 introduction to this book, I wrote, “This is the view from the other America, from flyover country, the places and people often ignored.” Two years later, we are still ignored. The Midwest, in decline for decades, still suffers disproportionately. We get attention

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bruise. I live in the middle, and when you live in the middle, you see things from all sides. This edition of The View from Flyover Country contains the original essays in their original form because my goal has not changed. I am motivated today by the same thing that motivated me

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we want to figure out a way out of this situation, we need to reexamine how we got into it. —September 2017 PART I Flyover Country The View from Flyover Country In St. Louis, you can buy a mansion for $275,000. It has twelve bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a three-bedroom carriage house, and

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look more like other American cities, because in the twenty-first century, America has started looking more like St. Louis. * * * This is the view from flyover country, where the rich are less rich and the poor are more poor and everyone has fewer things to lose. * * * St. Louis is a city where

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In St. Louis, you reevaluate “fair.” In St. Louis, you might have it bad, but someone’s got it worse. This is the view from flyover country, where the rich are less rich and the poor are more poor, and everyone has fewer things to lose. The symbol of St. Louis is

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be seen—and criticized, and chastised, and caricatured for clicks and cash. But rarely are they heard. —Originally published January 22, 2014 PART VI Beyond Flyover Country U.S. Foreign Policy’s Gender Gap The dearth of women in U.S. foreign policy is a subject of continual interest, mostly because it

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representative region, which is a convenient way to ignore the prevalence of bigotry in coastal states or among the wealthy and educated. We are still “flyover country,” only now all our whites are racists and the rest of our population has disappeared. My own state, Missouri, has become a model of low

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up with me throughout this wild ride. But above all, thanks go to my two favorite people, Emily and Alex. I wrote The View from Flyover Country with the aim of exposing problems we all face and contributing to a better world for you and your generation. Hopefully by the time you

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online at us.macmillan.com/newslettersignup For email updates on the author, click here. Contents Title Page Copyright Notice Dedication Introduction PART I: FLYOVER COUNTRY The View from Flyover Country Expensive Cities Are Killing Creativity The Peril of Hipster Economics Mourn the Fall of the Mall PART II: THE POST-EMPLOYMENT ECONOMY Surviving the

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Is a “Journalist”? People Who Can Afford to Be Blame It on the Internet When the Mainstream Media Are the Lunatic Fringe PART VI: BEYOND FLYOVER COUNTRY U.S. Foreign Policy’s Gender Gap Snowden and the Paranoid State Iraq and the Reinvention of Reality Where Following the Law Is Radical Water

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Right, But Who Is Considered a Human Being? The Telegenically Dead CODA In Defense of Complaining Epilogue Acknowledgments About the Author Copyright THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY. Copyright © 2015 by Sarah Kendzior. All rights reserved. For information, address Flatiron Books, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010. www.flatironbooks.com Cover

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Cover photograph © Luke Hayes/Millennium Images The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows: Names: Kendzior, Sarah, author. Title: The view from flyover country: dispatches from the forgotten America / Sarah Kendzior. Description: First edition. | New York: Flatiron Books, 2018. Identifiers: LCCN 2017049753 | ISBN 9781250189998 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9781250189981 (ebook

Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century

by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words

haven for countercultural experimentation, shifted focus in 1998 to mainstream programming like Total Request Live, which fueled the rise of factory-made teenpop stars and flyover-country favorites Limp Bizkit and Korn. Downtown New York hungered for something rawer and more authentic. Salvation arrived in the form of a rock band called

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outcome to racism. Instead, journalists leaned on the euphemism of “economic anxiety.” This birthed a new media cliché in which coastal reporters journeyed deep into flyover country to interview diner patrons. The election exposed how pop culture and politics had cleaved into two separate spheres. Liberals viewed their cultural dominance as meritocratic

The Dream of Europe: Travels in the Twenty-First Century

by Geert Mak · 27 Oct 2021 · 722pp · 223,701 words

, he demonstrated a knack for translating those conditions into votes.’ Six years earlier, in 2010, I took a long trip through what’s known as ‘flyover country’, the unseen America of dirt-poor families. Not New York this time but Marshall, Minnesota. Not Yosemite but the potato fields of Maine. John Steinbeck

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America

by Sarah Kendzior · 6 Apr 2020

trust. I wrote a series of essays documenting my nation’s demise, many of which were later published in my first book, The View from Flyover Country. The essays were shaped in part by the harsh conditions of Missouri, the state I call home, a state that had long been the bellwether

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Trumpland.” Cassandra was a Greek goddess cursed to see the future but never be believed.1 That article was about my book The View from Flyover Country, a collection of essays written between 2012 and 2014 that was once viewed as pessimistic but is now heralded as prescient. I wrote about all

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’s how gatekeepers want it: an empire, even a fallen one, should have some glamour, some command, not be rooted in the region disparagingly called flyover country. But it was in St. Charles, Missouri, where explorers Lewis and Clark set off on their quest of westward imperialism; Hannibal, Missouri, where Mark Twain

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officials of Illinois and the notorious dysfunction of Kansas. In April 2018, I went on a book tour for my essay collection The View from Flyover Country, and found myself constantly having to insist to people outside my state that the conditions I describe are real. “What’s it like where you

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outlets. They were also more willing to abide my most controversial Trump thesis, which was that he would win. Meanwhile, my book The View from Flyover Country, a collection of essays discussing the collapse of institutional stability and social trust in the United States, suddenly became a bestseller. People asked me if

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people—too many to list in this space. First, I’d like to thank my wonderful readers. You made my first book, The View from Flyover Country, a grassroots hit and created the demand for more. I’ve enjoyed reading your emails, tweets, and letters, and meeting some of you while on

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Winner, Reality (anonymous whistleblower) World Trade Center attacks (1993) World Trade Organization Yazbeck, Sean Yosef, Yitzhak Zimmerman, George Also by Sarah Kendzior The View from Flyover Country About the Author SARAH KENDZIOR is best known for her reporting on St. Louis and the 2016 election, her academic research on authoritarian states, and

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her New York Times bestselling debut The View from Flyover Country. She is a cohost of the podcast Gaslit Nation and was named one of Foreign Policy’s “100 people you should be following on Twitter

Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another

by Matt Taibbi · 7 Oct 2019 · 357pp · 99,456 words

’s damn good for CBS,” adding, “the money’s rolling in.” Comments like these triggered an avalanche of anti-press complaints, this time not from flyover country (where hatred of the “elite” press was already considered a given) but from urban, left-leaning intellectuals, aka the media’s home crowd. An example

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that our rants about beer and “likability” and so on, were only the Washington press corps’ idea of what was important to a voter in flyover country. Given that most actual voters were sunk in debt, working multiple jobs, uninsured, saddled with ruined credit scores, and often battling alcohol and opiate addiction

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to the question of our own unpopularity. Since Goldberg first went public and more so since Trump’s election, there have been repeat expeditions into flyover country, in search of the elusive source of the liberal bias religion. Take Margaret Sullivan of the Washington Post, who in late 2017 decided to tackle

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factors, the modern press spends a lot of time doing what papers did in the age of the original Populists, rolling eyes at “clodhoppers” in flyover country. The worship of urban experts is so out of control that asking rich city folk what’s good for the not-rich is normal practice

Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road

by Matthew B. Crawford · 8 Jun 2020 · 386pp · 113,709 words

for Emmanuel Macron’s government. It was prompted by a slight decrease in speed limits and a fuel tax, which hit the French equivalent of “flyover country” disproportionately. (Macron’s political base is mostly metropolitan, relies on the Paris Metro, and takes its own environmental virtue as one of its titles to

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precipitated by two measures: a fuel tax intended to reduce carbon emissions, and a reduction in speed limits. These disproportionately affected the French equivalent of “flyover country,” or what the French geographer Christophe Guilluy calls “la France périphérique.” Out in the hinterland, one must do a lot of driving, so these proposals

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not an actual cognitive impairment, but having a low standing in the smarty-pants political economy. Economically bludgeoned by developments of the last few decades, flyover country is determined to be forward thinking. Kansas City has declared itself the nation’s “smartest city” and hosts international conferences to tell others about this

Aerotropolis

by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay · 2 Jan 2009 · 603pp · 182,781 words

with volatile consumer demand, and an outright need for speed in production. The last one is also why LA has begun a slow descent into flyover country as far as cargo is concerned. Asian airlines in particular have learned to skip its tangle of runways and freeways in favor of direct flights

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, San Francisco, Phoenix, and Las Vegas will all have new or improved airports. Will it be too late to prevent Los Angeles from descending into flyover country? “These aircraft don’t have to stop at LAX,” a city councilwoman explained. “People in the airline industry were telling me they could just pass

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jet had expanded the scope of communities worldwide. People could scatter, float, and re-form as necessary simply by hopping on a flight. He discovered flyover country: When people can interact with others across great distances and when they can readily move themselves into face-to-face positions as the need to

California

by Sara Benson · 15 Oct 2010

BARBARA AREA LA PURíSIMA MISSION STATE HISTORIC PARK SANTA BARBARA WINE COUNTRY SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL ISLANDS NATIONAL PARK VENTURA * * * Too often forgotten or dismissed as ‘flyover’ country between San Francisco and Los Angeles, this stretch of coastal California is like a Japanese bento box packed with nearly everything you’ve come to

Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

by Sarah Smarsh · 17 Sep 2018 · 279pp · 90,278 words

their own race. And we were of a place, the Great Plains, spurned by more powerful corners of the country as a monolithic cultural wasteland. “Flyover country,” people called it, like walking there might be dangerous. Its people were “backward,” “rednecks.” Maybe even “trash.” Somehow, without yet understanding any of that consciously

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dirty work in fields. But to devalue, in our social investments, the people who tend crops and livestock, or to refer to their place as “flyover country,” is to forget not just a country’s foundation but its connection to the earth, to cycles of life scarcely witnessed and ill understood in

A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America

by Tony Horwitz · 1 Jan 2008

night a “flame of fire”? Or of “hump-backed cows” with goatlike beards that pounded across the Plains? Even the endless prairie, derided today as “flyover country,” astonished those who first rode across it. “If a man lay down on his back he lost sight of the ground,” one Spanish horseman marveled