Thursday, November 28, 2013

Bi-Coastal Reinvented

Victor Davis Hanson, historian at the Hoover Institution who writes for National Review, believes that most important decisions affecting the U.S. are made in two narrow coastal corridors. From Boston to Washington, DC, financial and political decisions are made; from San Francisco to San Diego, cultural and technological decisions emerge.

This column isn't up to Hanson's usual level of insight. What he's done here is reinvent the idea of a "bi-coastal" elite, a term in use since 1977.

We who inhabit the rest of the country - aka "the great fly-over" - will be fortunate if the liberal moonbats who inhabit the coasts shuttle back and forth without noticing we're down here getting on with our out-of-the-limelight red state lives.