Inherent Vice: L.A. Times Review

[Dave Monroe]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:21 PM, rich<richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> sorry, if this has been asked before but puzzled by "flatlanders"--i
> get the meaning by context but is this a reference endemic to
> California, geography?, flat=boring, flat=straight. curious about the
> origins of the term

I don't know about California, but it's a, uh, perjorative slang term
for Illionoisans here (Wisconsin), and that's coming from us, so ...