Daily Beast reporter Samantha Allen was on MSNBC's Morning Joe to talk about the state of the LGBT community in red states across the country.

In a previously taped segment, (co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were off on Tuesday as Scarborough was planning for his mother's funeral) Brezinski introduced Allen as having journeyed throughout, '"Real America' to document what is actually happening in the places that almost half of the LGBT community calls home."

Quoting Allen's book, Real Queer America: LGBT Stories From Red States, in her introduction, Brezinski declared: "'If the dominant LGBT narrative of the 20th century was a gay boy from the country buying a one-way bus ticket to the Big Apple, the untold story of the 21st is the queer girl in Tennessee to stays put."'

Allen began by remarking that, "I just found amazing pockets of LGBT acceptance all over more conservative parts of the United States" from Provo, Utah, to Bloomington, Indiana. Speaking of conservative parts of the country, she observed, "I have lived a lot of my life in Utah and Georgia and Florida, so I knew from firsthand experience that these places were more welcoming to LGBT people than sometimes we might think they are," before giving the example of an LGBT youth center directly across the street from a Mormon temple and children of parents "observing a pretty conservative faith" being present at those youth centers.

Asked the purpose of the book, Allen explained, "After the 2016 election, I saw, you know, a fair amount of commentary on social media of people being dismissive towards Red State America... I wanted to go out there and say, 'No, this is what LGBT life is like in these places. It's not uniformly awful."' It was not purely an exoneration of Red State America, as Allen warned that, "there's lots to combat at state legislative levels, lots of anti-LGBT bills being proposed, but these places themselves are often warm, welcoming places to live."

New York Times reporter Nick Confessore asked about the history of the gay rights movement and isolation of LGBT youth in rural America, with MSNBC political commentator Mike Barnicle saying that Allen's work was "encouraging."

Allen's comments about combating "anti-LGBT bills" at the state level notwithstanding, which are often more about the First Amendment then anti-LGBT sentiment, the idea that Red States are not full of LGBT haters would only come as surprise to those who believe their own caricatures of conservative or religious Americans. After hearing it from the mouth of an LGBT individual, hopefully coastal liberals will re-evaluate their assessment of those who live between New York and Los Angeles.

Here is a transcript for the March 5 show: