
Originally Posted by
TXBRONC
Oh my deepest apologise. I didn't mean to be insensitive.
A colleague of mine from school wrote this about Iowans, and I feel it to be true:

Originally Posted by
Robert Hansen
“Iowa Nice” is a phrase used to describe the almost in-your-face hospitality we tend to show the world. I live in Maryland nowadays, and my habits of calling everyone “sir” and “ma’am” tend to get people looking at me funny and wondering where I’m originally from. An Iowan is someone who will do your dishes without even being asked, someone who will give you the last nickel in their bank account because you’re in a crisis, someone who —
But there’s also “Iowa Mean,” too: and I have to tell you, I’ve never found any state that has elevated grudgeholding to quite the level Iowans do. It’s not an in-your-face meanness: it’s the kind of thing that makes you wish you were in New York City, where if someone’s mean to you they at least have the grace to make sure you know it. Iowa Mean is when you’re standing on the street bleeding to death and screaming for help, and every passerby makes eye contact with you, makes sure you know they’ve seen you, and then just keeps on walking by without a word. It isn’t treating someone as if they’re socially invisible: it’s making someone knows that you do see them… and you don’t even care enough to laugh at them… and neither does anyone else.
It takes a special hardness of heart to be Iowa Mean.
Last edited by Thnikkaman; 01-26-2012 at 12:26 PM.
I got mind control while I'm here
You goin' hate me when I'm gone
Ain't no blood clot and no fear
I got hope inside of my bones