Why I Have No Animosity Toward Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota (And Don't Regard Them as Part of 'Midwest Culture')

A Surprising Resignation from a Contributor Prompts A Deeper Explanation of a Strange Place in America

Dec 14, 2022

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I knew that I’d be ruffling some Hoosier feathers with yesterday’s essay detailing how an adolescence experiencing emotional abuse, bullying, and violence from my classmates in Carmel, Indiana, as well as other cultural experiences, left me with a deep distaste for the state of my birth.

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So Sally and I have been back visiting family and friends in Indiana for almost a month now. And we’ll be staying for probably another month or so, heading back to our desert hideaway on the edge of the Mojave in early or mid January. And it really can’t come soon enough for me. I don’t like it here. Since I moved to Los A…

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Why I Have No Animosity Toward Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota (And Don't Regard Them as Part of 'Midwest Culture')

A Surprising Resignation from a Contributor Prompts A Deeper Explanation of a Strange Place in America

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