When the new Congress convenes on Tuesday, Ohio Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur will become the longest-serving woman in its history. Yet after 40 years, she sometimes feels like an outsider. Not because she's a woman or now in the minority party in the House. It's that she's from Middle America, and represents a district populated by working-class folks — a place and people many colleagues have forgotten, Kaptur said in an interview with The Associated Press. "This is a burden I've carried my entire career. It's a problem in both parties because the leadership tends to come from the coasts and we here in the big middle of the country are not well understood," she said.