This @Eugene_Scott piece is a great antidote to a pervasive myth about who, exactly, enables white supremacy in this country.
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The myth of “Flyover Man” is actually several pieces of propaganda braided together, that simultaneously romanticize white supremacy (“Real Americans”) and create a safe distance from it (“racism isn’t on people like me - it’s on those rednecks over there”).
That’s why we don’t constantly hear about all the Midwesterners and rural Americans who aren’t white conservatives. The reality would just get in the way of the propaganda.
For David Brooks to promote this propaganda using a character from his imagination is too perfect. And of course it’s a man. He’s not even trying to hide behind a skewed selection of interview subjects. It’s just straight up fiction.
