Define that across the broad spectrum.

Everyone mostly cares about themselves. That's how the Democratic party formed a voting block: lots of people concerned about their own issues agree to vote with others on their issues in order to get legislation passed: they realize they aren't a sizable enough group to accomplish their goals any other way. And…

Or maybe people in NYC for instance have an unearned sense of superiority based on being shoved so close together?

I live in Middle America, myself, and the conservatives I know, however they vote, are as personally concerned and seeing themselves as personally impacted by the decisions made in our country as the liberals I know are.

It's so frustrating when people don't have the same outlook as you. Are you sure you didn't vote for Trump?

Seriously? God, you probably are serious. And I'm a gay liberal. But, geez, are you dealing a stacked deck there. "When we push politics into everything, its because we're such beautiful, earnest souls. When they do it, it's because they are callous, unconcerned and evil."

I've never seen the movie, so I don't know what you're referring to. But the actor, Bill Weedon, loved making it. A good actor. He was in the last company of The Fantasticks, off-Broadway.

The star of that movie is actually a friend of mine.

I'm pretty sure most everyone here was hoping it would be liberal propaganda (or cancelled). There have been tons of articles over every award show so far with even the faintest attack on Trump. It's silly to blame his supporters for reading politics into everything when in fact most people these days seem hell bent…

I love that you think of the Oscars as culture. Maybe Middle America is just more sophisticated than that.

This I know from experience. More Seattle than Portland, but the analogy is sound.

I know. I mean, they even had technical awards. What's not to like?

No, for Middle Americans only ambrosia is like ambrosia—just like for us gods here on Olympus.

Does the title God's Not Dead 2 mean the same thing as God's Not Dead, Also? I know, I know, if I'd watched the marathon, I'd know the answer (and perhaps have been Raptured by marathon's end).

Everyone goes to a Nascar race in hope of a fatal crash, but I don't think most Middle Americans have ever been or have any interest in going to a Nascar race.

I don't know. Seems most cities, even small ones, qualify as "urban." You can't have a suburb without an "urb" to attach it to (as God and Nature intended it).

But they're eeeevillll. Because Trump. Or Walmart. Or something.

Meh, that area, minus Chicago, is still pretty damn urban. It's not like one gigantic production of Tobacco Road.

I haven't watched the show in its entirety since I was in high school (I'm in my late 40's now). The only time I bothered to watch any of it was when Chicago was up. The Oscars are bloated, boring and irrelevant. Rich celebrities give trophies to each other. People like watching that?

The AV Club more or less proves him right.