My Nebraska: The Good, the Bad, and the Husker

Roger Welsch is a fierce fan of Nebraska-not just the football team, or the state's famous beef, or its endless sky, or its ferocious and ferociously unpredictable weather, but the whole thing. His license plate says CAPT NEB, and he means it.

Welsch loves Nebraska as the heart of America's Great Plains. His perception of the state is not always conventional-occasionally it's even abrasive-but he's thought a lot about this place some call "Fly-Over Country" or "The Middle of Nowhere" or ev...