“MANY YEARS AGO I attended a media luncheon in New York. I was a junior magazine editor; the other editors in attendance were much more senior and included the editor-in-chief of a travel magazine. “Where were you born?” asked the editor-in-chief. “Indiana,” I said. “Did you grow up in a trailer park?” he continued, clearly implying that he considered Midwesterners to be a bunch of badly housed rubes. ”
