For work, the east coast may as well have been china. Dc, new york, boston...it was all just a big populated area on the east coast. It was even that way growing up in St george. Basically everything between cedar city and Tremonton was "slc" to me. So I get it.
Ah, I can't defend the guy. He is a goober. Even as a kid I knew the statue of liberty was in philadelphia.