Let's just isolate the big cities and sort of secede from around them.

Additional correction: He was in a school room, where he "corrected" a kid for spelling "potato" without an e on the end. Pretty embarrassing. What no one ever reported is that Quayle was actually working out of the school's materials, which had the word spelled wrong.

Quayle was called stupid for assuming that published public school materials would have correct spelling.