Is Iowa a po-dunk state???
@meganparsons_4 (97)
United States
June 26, 2008 11:28pm CST
Why is it everywhere you go it seems like everybody is dogging on this poor state. If its not cause of the hicks it is the corn or whatever. Iowa isn't really that terrible is it???
3 responses
@honeydew82174 (1720)
• United States
27 Jun 08
I have been though there a few times. It is not bad. The land is really flat. I have traveled all over the USA and I do not think people from Iowa are hicks. I have seen a few hick living in the MTS. The have run down trailers and houses with crap in the yard and a house with no windows. I can not live like that but to them it is normal. They even had house and trailers for rent like that. I was shock. Here they do not call them hicks but rednecks. I do not judge them if they are happy with it so be it. 
@sleepyredd (201)
• United States
8 Sep 08
I grew up in Iowa. Some of my best memories where of that time. Yes it is a small town feeling. We used to ride our horses from wilton to moscow. During the winter we would leave the hose on at one of my friends houses so that it would freeze the dip in the yard. Then we could practice ice skating. We did alot of ice hockey play with sticks etc. on the frozen pond. I loved the farm. And my grandparents had a place on the mississippi. We lived on the dock in the summer. Fishing swimming and even ice skated that in the winter. My grandfather would put barrels down and he would jump across them while skating. We thought it great. I think anywhere you go you can find rednecks, country bumpkins, hicks etc. Some are good some will make you run the other way.
@lagirl1966 (709)
• United States
10 Jan 09
I am proud to be an iowan. I have lived here most of my life and have very good memories of my family here. I think people that dog Iowa don't really know what it is really like. We are not all hicks. There are just small town people here, which are very friendly and caring. We have wonderful nature here, lots of summer activities and festivals and people come from miles to come to them. I left for a year to a big city and I hated it. I missed Iowa. Because I love the wide open country and quiet. Iowa is a wonderful place to live. Its true we don't have alot of scenery, but I think that is overrated.
@mmiller26 (1930)
• Canada
28 Jun 08
I grew up in Iowa. The worst thing I can say for the state is just that it's incredibly boring. In high school on Friday nights, the only thing we had to do was drive from one end of town to the other and back and wave at our friends. lol. There's just nothing to do. There are some people there that I would consider rednecks (a girl I know wore plastic stripper shoes to her own wedding--so did the maid of honor) and it's extremely conservative. There are a lot of people there who don't know, or don't want to know, about the world outside their town.
I feel terrible about what Iowa is currently going through with the flooding and the tornadoes. My grandma and grandpa lost their home in the Parkersburg tornado, and the house there where I was born was destroyed. My great-grandpa's old house is gone. There's just so much destruction there right now, and they could all use our prayers.
