08-30-2016, 05:13 PM
I wondered if you were from Nebraska or Iowa, CornFed. Yeah, many native west-coasters whom I have met consider Iowa and Kansas flyover states or, even worse, "back East." But to Kansans, the big city is Topeka (big--they had a mall), Kansas City (really big--they had Worlds of Fun and professional sports) or Chicago (the biggest). If folks visited Micky Mouse, they went to FL, not CA. Skiing was an 11-hour bus ride to CO. Spring break was a two-day drive to South Padre Island, TX.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)