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6. Thing is, I generally hear positive things about how nice eastern Iowa is...
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 09:35 AM
Mar 2017

...especially Dubuque, when I mention that I'm from there to people in other states. I think the reputation of Dubuque and of eastern Iowa in general has actually improved a little bit over the past few years.

But I can see your point, that people hear Iowa and automatically assume we're all a bunch of racist, homophobic fornicate sticks like Steve King, and they then decide to go elsewhere. And I think the King supporters in NW Iowa do need to be blamed for the harm he does to our tourism industry. I think they need to be blamed for the fact that there are many of us, like myself, who are seriously considering moving out of Iowa because of the racism and homophobia. And this "Steve being Steve" bullshit doesn't cut it anymore. As far as I'm concerned that's like a Hitler supporter trying to dismiss what his or her hero is doing by saying, "Oh that's just Adolf being Adolf."


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