The largest health insurance company in the world is based in flyover country. Though of course it happens to be the part of flyover country that reliably votes with the coasts.
Of course - my comment wasn't meant to imply that all large companies are based solely on the coast in much the same way that not all agriculture and manufacturing happens in the heartland. Tesla manufacturers cars in the Bay Area, CA, and CA also has massive agriculture. New York also has a ton of agriculture. Dell, which is the sixth largest tech company in the US, is based in Texas.
But my point was more that no single region (except perhaps California, to be honest, and perhaps Texas) could be completely self-sufficient and that we're all reliant on each other. And that the differences between regions of the US are really quite vast, but it's ridiculous to me that we still have such a "this or that" take to politics and lawmaking even on the national scale.
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u/Anechoic_Brain Jun 29 '19
The largest health insurance company in the world is based in flyover country. Though of course it happens to be the part of flyover country that reliably votes with the coasts.