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625 points zdw | 1 comments | 27 Sep 25 15:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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tptacek ◴[27 Sep 25 16:45 UTC] No.45397384[source]▶
It's funny to me that in portraying Indiana as a "blank state" he's highlighting one of the most beautiful parts of the state (the route through the Dunes along the Michigan lakefront; if you've seen "Road To Perdition", you know what that area looks like). It's not important to the article, a complete tangent, but I can't not call that out.
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ccleve ◴[27 Sep 25 17:51 UTC] No.45397934[source]▶
Irked me too. I'm running for state representative in House District 9, which covers much of that area. The district is drop dead gorgeous and it's growing rapidly. There's a lot here.
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forgotoldacc ◴[27 Sep 25 18:02 UTC] No.45398029[source]▶
Pretty much everyone on earth is proud of their home area. I've never really been to a place where people didn't describe their home as one of the most beautiful places on earth.

Earth has a lot of nice places. The flatness of Indiana can be calming and beautiful. But if you're driving on main roads, it's not very exciting, and it's not the kind of exciting people will fly across the world to see. And that was the point in the article.

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1. tptacek ◴[27 Sep 25 18:24 UTC] No.45398243[source]▶
People do fly out to vacation in the part of Indiana he highlighted!

I'm not saying Indiana on the whole isn't flat. When I was growing up, their ad campaign was literally "there's more than corn in Indiana". I'm just saying, he couldn't have picked a worse map location to make the point with.