Brian Gongol

As well as Oklahoma, Texas, and Missouri

The President is there for speeches and meetings now, but the region really needs to be much more than an occasional area of focus. Too often our worldview breaks down into the equivalent of "Us (yay!), China (scary!), and Europe (buddies in trouble!)." There's a lot more nuance deserved than that.

(Video) Even some of his friends in baseball still held stupid prejudices about people like him, years after he broke the color barrier in baseball