And yet it never occurs to them to broaden their horizons.
These big cities are really little more than a bunch of tiny small towns clumped together, with packs of unsophisticated and unaware liberal elites all clutching each other for dear life and not daring to make contact with anyone outside their cocktail party clique. They think anyone who's not them shops at WalMart for camo fashion apparel, and that their 100 or so acquaintances that they see at the awards shows are representative of America.
You're thinking of Bill Maher and his grandiose description of how much better the people are in the big cities - they have museums, high fashion, great chefs, and claiming the rest of America wants to BE them?
Yeah.
That would explain why those states are losing people the fastest, and the rubes in the "flyover" states are gaining. People want to BE them so badly, they leave at their first opportunity.
And of course it ignores what most of us already know - those millions who live in LA, NYC, Chicago ? The overwhelming majority
of those people do not shop at the most expensive shops or eat from the tables of the top chefs or do any of those things that make their
city so wonderful. Nope. Just the rich folks. The RICH libs in the coastal cities. So it isn't coast versus flyover, it's rich snobs versus everyone else.