How do you feel when your home state is referred to as a “fly over state”? How do you feel about this term in general?

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  4. I think it’s dumb, elitist, and closed-minded, but at the same time, I hope those people keep on flying because I have a pretty good life here at an affordable cost and I’d like to keep it that way.

  6. It’s a term that says infinitely more about the person using it than it does the state they’re referring to.

  7. It’s a term that people imagine other people to be saying way more than it’s actually said. (It was actually first used by a guy in Montana talking about his own community.)

  8. A term that is used by incredibly arrogant Americans that think the area between New York and LA is nothing more than a corn field occupied by rednecks.

  9. Why is it considered pejorative when it’s a fact that the destination of most people who fly is the East or West coast?

  10. It’s a clever marketing strategy to keep east and west coasters from bothering us. Cost of living is incredibly low, the air is crisp and smog free. I can actually drive from my town to the next that’s 5 miles away in less than 10 minutes without traffic jams, but be anywhere in Cincinnati in less than 45 minutes with most of it within 25. [My newest neighbor came from Virginia](https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/50-Tebbs-Ave-Lawrenceburg-IN-47025/85166234_zpid/)

    His family is lovin’ it

    He does have a lot of grass to mow, that’s 4 lots

  11. Keep flying over. It’s incredibly cheap to live where I do, and it’s a hell of a lot nicer than one would expect.

  13. Just west/east coast elitism. Most of them have never been anywhere that’s not a vacation spot. I’ve at least passed through 34 states and they all have their own unique flare to them (except Ohio). I’ve never been fully accustomed to large cities but I can understand why urban folk don’t care for the smaller states. It’s also a good cultural experience and its no wonder why everything is so regional, people from Boston and Atlanta have no similarities demographically, culturally, culinary, urban wise, architecture wise, and transportation wise.

  14. I’d say anyone that has any negative feelings about it probably isn’t from a fly over state, and if they are, they’re from a big city that the rest of the state doesn’t claim as its own. We’ve got more important shit to deal with than crying over what the coasters call us.

  15. Typical coastal elitism, nothing that most people from those states aren’t already used to.

  17. I wouldn’t care at all; however, WA is not a “fly over” state…we are awesome.

  19. Reading the comments proves the vast majority have no idea what you’re talking about.

  20. It’s not and it’s descriptive enough. I can not imagine damn near anyone is willingly flying to North Dakota on purpose unless it’s a Layover or they live there. It’s a flyover state.

  21. Mild annoyance. It’s just a term people on the coasts use to refer to places they no nothing about. If they want to be ignorant I can’t stop it.

    Being from Indiana and going to the east coast for college I would just make shit up if people took that attitude.

    One girl from New Hampshire said Indiana was all flat (where she was from in NH was quite flat). So I convinced her the foothills of the Rockies started in Indiana. She said “no way they are west of the Mississippi.” I told her “yeah I know, where do you think the Mississippi runs? It goes right through central Indiana after flowing out of Minnesota and Illinois.”

    Because she was completely ignorant of “the flyover states” she just took that as fact.

  22. Saw a bumper sticker I loved on a Texas truck: Welcome to Texas. Now go home.
    (Wish my state was a “flyover” and didn’t have to rely on tourism. I live in Florida.)

  23. Embarrassed but understanding we’re still known for some dumbass laws outside of America

  24. Tells me that the person using the term is no more worth my time than they think I am worth theirs.

  25. My home state are generally some of the ignorant wastes of oxygen using the term. I think I’ve adequately expressed my feelings on it.

  26. I’m pretty “east coast liberal” and I’ve never referred to a state as a fly over state. I’ve visited every state except for the handful in the north west of the map (but plan to soon).

  27. When I hadn’t yet lived outside the Midwest, I took offense. Now that I’ve been elsewhere, I grudgingly concede they do kind of have a point.

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