Talk:Flyover country

message: My girlfriend is from a red state, but its a blue county--is that good enough? CoolGuy 03:22, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If when asked where you're from you give your "county", then you are most definitely from Flyover Country. 76.19.26.248 (talk) 21:37, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

message: The fact that Chicago is in fact the third largest metropolis in the U.S. and is in Illinois, which is as blue as a state can get, it should not be included.
Chicago was only surpassed in population by L.A. in the 80's. 
Until then it was always the second largest, thus the nickname 'The Second City'. It also happens to be much more of an actual "city" than L.A.
Barack Obama calls Chicago home, and Hillary Clinton was born and raised there, so to include it as "flyover" when you consider that it's usually a derogatory "red state" reference is ludicrous.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Goveart (talk • contribs) 20:41, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The term isn't really about "red states" vs "blue states"; that's just a connotation it took on during the 2004 and to a lesser extent 2008 elections. It's been a long-standing term among east- and west-coast "elites" who see the rural areas of the US as being unworthy of their time. 75.76.213.106 (talk) 21:54, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chicago 

message: The article is currently unsourced and needs to cite reliable sources. A search of Google Books turned up what look like a few reliable, possibly relevant sources. Editors wishing to improve the article might look for these or similar books at your local library. (I for one can't really read the small Google Books print.)
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Cnilep (talk) 07:35, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible sources 

message: The following sentence sounds rather editorial: "Politicians are often accused of not understanding the needs of those living in Flyover States as they fly back and forth between the more populated West coast and East coast ignoring those in the middle of the country." 
One could find this complaint attested in the remarks of various officials, certainly. But, the U.S. federal government is just as often accused of siphoning tax revenue from the wealthy coastal cities to subsidize the poorer rural interior, and any observer of a U.S. presidential election would probably have to admit that much of the imagery and issues used in the campaign caters to the interests of rural and interior America. This conjecture should either be stricken or expanded to include the generally opposing viewpoint of the coastal states.
Xmatt (talk) 19:58, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Politicians 

message: I found no uses of "flyover country" actually used pejoratively by an elitist, and numerous self-references used as a badge of honor, a way of calling oneself a salt-of-the-earth type. It seems the term "flyover country" is pejorative towards coastal elitists and not mainland USA, as if to say, they are stuck up name-callers.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doug141 (talk • contribs) 00:33, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Self-referential, not pejorative 

message: Apart from Kansas (relegated to a caption), the only states mentioned in the article as being flown over are Virginia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, which are not what people mean by flyover country. That's an interesting but entirely misleading statistic. DAVilla (talk) 23:58, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  which states?