It really does feel like the entirety of the journalism profession has internalized that Republicans in an Iowa Diner are Real Americans and the rest of us are just....honestly, I don't know. Like fuck me for living in a major metro and not being conservative?
30 Rock had a bunch of jokes about exactly this like 15 years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjNY...
These are the same people who think land votes. "Oh, look at how many red areas vs blue areas on this map!" "Fuckhead, most of those red areas are empty land with about 1500 people in each one."