I am all for Iowa and Iowans not trying to be something and someone we aren’t. We have a certain image, and there’s nothing wrong with that, per se. When was the last time an Iowa-ISU football intro didn’t pan over a cornfield at some point?
But it sounds like ABC is going whole-hog (cough) on coastal versions of Iowa stereotypes in the upcoming “Bachelor” with Iowa native Chris Soules. Take this promo, where he’s literally out standing in his field, or the title of this post, which is what he’s been dubbed.
(We certainly wouldn’t want to point out that the idea of an Iowa full of young farm families is in the fourth decade of a major reality check and reaching crisis levels. No, that’s not what something like this is about.)
At the same time, Shawn Johnson is going on “Celebrity Apprentice,” and I have no idea how she was expecting not to encounter some sort of pigeonholing.