A San Antonio Journalist on Media, Middle America, and the Stories Outsiders Keep Getting Wrong

Working people. Rural people. Small-town people. Texans. Southerners. People who live outside the polished districts where the media class feels comfortable. People who work with their hands, bury their dead quietly, vote their conscience, raise families, lose jobs, rebuild lives, sit in traffic, pray when nobody is watching, and keep going because that is what people have always done.

Then the outsiders package them.