It’s got the west. It’s got Costco. For me, a perfect essay.
From Timothy Egan, Clueless in Costco. Go read it all, but Egan begins:
For a native Westerner, the slights from the other end of the country start early, and build through a lifetime: national broadcasters on election night who cannot pronounce Oregon (it’s like gun) or Nevada (it’s not Nev-odda), or a toll-free clerk who thinks New Mexico is part of old Mexico.
“You’ll have to go through your own embassy,” a resident of Santa Fe was told when trying to order Olympic tickets for games on American soil.
As I said, go read it all.
That is not only a great piece of writing, but also rings very true. The bias certainly exists on both sides of the Mississippi.