I was doing some office cleaning this past weekend when I stumbled upon an object I had collected on a road trip back in 2005—a list of “Rules to Enter Iowa” that I had ripped out of a local gazette in a hotel in Dubuque, Iowa. At the time I imagined it might come in handy for a discussion about socioeconomic class, regional identities or just rural/urban identities more generally. Since I’m not sure when I’ll use it, and I […]

Categories: Mythologies, Tourism • Tags: Gender, Iowa, Race, redstate, rural/urban, Social Class