There’s a mountain of electoral gold which, for the first time, is being mined: graduates of regional public universities. Many of them men. Colleges with “state” in their name. Our guest Washington Monthly editor in chief Paul Glastris talks about the overlooked “diploma divide.” He says 60% of Americans have spent time in college classrooms but a very small percentage went to the expensive elite flagship schools. This large demographic is both proud and aggrieved. They stay close to home and thus boost the economy where it needs it most, small rural towns. Glastris says Walz is one of these men, proud and clearly comfortable who he is. He’s the embodiment of a certain healthy masculinity.