Analysis: Voters are calling on Buttigieg to embrace a more diverse view of the 'American heartland'
“Americans may not agree on who they are as a whole but they think they know the nature of their heart. Local. Insulated. Exceptionalist. Isolationist. Provincial. The ultimate safe space. Love it or hate it, the heartland lies at the center of national mythology.”
But the concept of the heartland has long been a controversial one for what it arguably claims America is not. In the 2018 elections, Kansas voters sent a Native American lesbian to Congress. And voters in Minnesota helped elect a Muslim woman who came to the United States as a Somali refugee.
Post columnist Michelle Norris has reported on race in America for decades, and said conversations about the heartland rarely feature the stories of the black people she grew up around in Minnesota.. “Land of casseroles and county fairs and Friday night bingo. And yet it seems that term does not encompass the neighborhoods where I lived and the folk of the great migration that raised me.
“Heartland is code,” she tweeted. “And I’m over it. It erases the legitimacy of the experiences and reality of Black mid-Westerners and cloaks white mid-Western communities in a gauzy innocence and authenticity.” Heartland is code. And I'm over it. It erases the legitimacy of the experiences and reality of Black mid-Westerners and cloaks white mid-Western communities in a gauzy innocence and authenticity.
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