What Bubble?

I am not opposed to conspiracy theories.  I loved The X-Files. It's just that I also like some proof. I am still waiting for some evidence I can buy into about JFK's assassination, but it hasn't happened for me yet. At least with JFK there is kinda sorta some plausibility, just not enough to really sink your teeth into. In the case of the 2020 election, there isn't even a shred of plausibilty, except in the QAnon parallel universe.

Since 2016 (and maybe before), we have been deluged with articles lecturing us about how those of us on the left are in some kind of bubble, and that we refuse to try to understand and sympathize with all those wonderful Americans in flyover country. Well, all those flyover states are pretty much the same ones that joined Pardon-Me-Please Paxton's goofball SCOTUS case (which even the fringiest Justices didn't buy). Tell me please: just what am I not "understanding" about these people?

If I leave my condo and walk around the block, I am likely to encounter folks who are white, Black, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, South Asian, other Asian, gay, straight, homeless, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, atheist, and many others. That doesn't make me anything special. But it does allow me to ask who is actually living in a bubble.