Iowa and Nebraska really are similar as far as the land itself goes and what is grown from it. But, if brothers can go kill each other in the Civil War, Rufus reckons he can muster up enough courage to trash Iowa the way God intended.
Oh pity thee, Wyoming and thy Cowboy Mafia. Even an old lump of coal could be a diamond someday – but not you, of course. Wyoming has so much going against it that you can only pray for the land’s eternal soul.
There are far worse places to live than Nebraska, and they ain’t all on some different continent. They’re right under our nose: Missouri, Kansas, South Dakota, Iowa and mountain-free Colorado and Wyoming.

