There is a lot of misinformation about Iowa going around this time in the election cycle, and I would like to clear some of that up. Iowa hasn't exactly been represented well in the media or on this board, so here's a quick educational video to dispel some basic myths.

This is exactly the kind of video I wanted to see. I hate it when people generalize about states, especially in the Midwest.

"Did your state legalize gay marriage before us?"

Yes. Yes it did.

*turns off video*

Good video. I'm always down to learn something new.

Been seeing this blow up on the interwebs lately and I dig it.

And as for the little jab he threw in about "Iowa not exactly being represented well on this board" .... if two or three people can seriously influence your opinion of an ENTIRE STATE (and I know that's unfortunately the truth for some) that speaks volumes...

they really do wave back when you fly over

Its still boring, they didnt justify its boringness

This video made me lol, Don't understand what he was trying to say at the end with the whole, computer not being invented in New York though, since the first computer was invented in the University of Pennsylvania, but hey, I guess he's from Iowa.

ABC (Iowa State) was finished in 1942. ENIAC (UP) was finished in 1946.

If you want to be like that, why forget the Z1 in 1936?

Googling...

Gah. Damn you Wikipedia, for proving me wrong once again.

id get my facts straight before i made a biased video tbh

I don't get this video anyway. Do people really feel this way about Iwoa? The things he is saying I usually associated with southern states like Georgia, Mississippi, ect.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/12/observations-from-20-years-of-iowa-life/249401/1/?single_page=true

The guy is from Jersey, and was probably raped in a cornfield by Jim Bob from Tipton or something. That is basically the stereotype. People tend to assume we're all evangelicals, because of the Republican caucuses, when in reality that is just a very small group of people in a minority party making lots of noise.

I have never seen such a douchey article from The Atlantic. Dude was a straight up dick.

Douchefag is so pretentious it kills me. So many sweeping generalizations made from one or two anecdotes or statistics. He says he's lived here for the last twenty years, but he must have been living a hole.

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I live in Iowa City, a university town 60 miles west of the Mississippi, along Highway 80 (known as The Interstate to younger Iowans, just The Highway to older Iowans). Eighty is America's Main Street, bisecting Iowa, connecting the hallowed-out middle of Corpus Americana to the faraway coasts. Granted, I'm a transplant here, and when I lit out almost two decades ago for this territory, I didn't quite know what to expect. The first day I arrived from San Francisco, wandering about Iowa City during spring break, billed as a bustling Big Ten University town, I kept wondering, "Where is everyone?" I thought a neutron bomb had gone off; there were buildings but few, if any, people.

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Almost every Iowa house has a mudroom, so you don't track mud or pig shit into the kitchen or living room, even though the aroma of pig shit is absolutely venerated in Iowa: It's known to one and all here as "the smell of money."

I have no idea what the fuck a mudroom is, and I have never once referred to pig shit as money. It's something that smells bad for ten seconds when you're driving down the highway. Sorry, I mean The Highway. No wait, I'm young so I say The Interstate. Even though there are multiple interstates, and interstates are (believe it or not) different than highways.