Why, Oh Why is Iowa so Iowhite?

Why, it sounds like the apocalypse!

On New Year’s Day, NBC honking head Andrea Mitchell tried making America hip to the Hawkeye State’s unforgivable lack of hipness:

The rap on Iowa: it doesn’t represent the rest of the country—too white, too evangelical, too rural.

This isn’t the first time Ms. Mitchell—presumably a reporter rather than some wacked-out urban-supremacist sockpuppet—has made such a statement. In 2008 she chuckled while wondering why Barack Obama would bother to campaign in Southwest Virginia:

This is real [laughs] redneck, sort of, um, bordering on Appalachia country.

 

Mitchell’s recent comments about Iowa echo those made by New York Times publisher Arthur “Pinch” Sulzberger in a December 17 column:

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2012-01-08