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   Chuck Darwin (cdarwin@c.im)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 07:30:47 JST Chuck Darwin

   Midwestern guys:
   Vance and Walz’s opposing views of being from the US heartland

   Midwesterners have historically been on the frontlines of progressive politics and education.
   Midwesterners also have been innovators in both an economic and cultural sense
   But many agree there are a few features that typically set midwesterners apart.
   “Midwesterners also are said to be ‘nice’,” says Mutti Burke. “The idea is that midwesterners are often friendly and gracious to a fault.”

   Perhaps that’s why Democratic party vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz’s characterization of Vance and Trump as “weird” last month has struck such a chord with voters in the midwest
   -- propelling the Harris-Walz ticket to a four-point lead in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin in a recent poll.

   As governor of Minnesota, Walz’s brand of “nice” saw him introduce universal free breakfast and lunch for K-12 students in the state last year.

   The move was informed by his previous firsthand experience as a high school teacher who saw that lower-income kids using different colored food tickets to others could end up being stigmatized.

   What’s more, Walz has asked to appear onMillennial Farmer, a popular YouTube channel run by a Minnesota crop farmer that depicts everyday, midwestern farm life, despite its host’s anti-Democrat leanings. That request has yet to be fulfilled.

   At his first rally with Kamala Harris in Philadelphia on 6 August, Walz went straight after Vance’s midwestern chops, saying sarcastically: “Like all regular people I grew up with in the heartland, JD studied at Yale, had his career funded by Silicon Valley billionaires.”

   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/21/vance-walz-opposing-working-class-views?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other