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Old 06-26-2014, 07:28 PM
 
Location: North by Northwest
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Old 06-26-2014, 07:45 PM
 
Location: About 10 miles north of Pittsburgh International
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I'll throw my anecdotal 2 cents into the discussion--My younger sister found her first job after college, in Potter County Pa., and lived there for a few years. Up there, they refer to those of us from Pittsburgh as "flatlanders", and it is a term of derision.
 
Old 06-26-2014, 07:55 PM
 
Location: Manchester
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My favourite thing about this thread is the apparent assumption that a similar percentage of rural people don't stereotype or think negatively about "city people." They do. Anyone who has been raised in the country who was being remotely honest would say the same thing. The rural/urban divide is a thing, and it exists pretty much everywhere. Human beings like to focus on divisions and make assumptions. Who knew.
Grew up in the country, and honestly we never even thought about city people. We watched Pittsburgh news, but mostly for the weather, since 99% of it didn’t apply to us.

Pittsburgh was simply a place you went for major league sporting events, back to school clothes shopping, and concerts.
 
Old 06-26-2014, 07:58 PM
 
Location: Brookline, PGH
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My favourite thing about this thread is the apparent assumption that a similar percentage of rural people don't stereotype or think negatively about "city people." They do. Anyone who has been raised in the country who was being remotely honest would say the same thing. The rural/urban divide is a thing, and it exists pretty much everywhere. Human beings like to focus on divisions and make assumptions. Who knew.
You're right... so go start a thread about rural xenophobia towards city folk.

One difference: outside of what passes for "country music" these days (just to bring this full circle) and college football, rural Americans don't have the same cultural presence that urban America has... the bigger problem there is that our mass media is still dominated by New York and California, and much of our nation's diverse regional flavor, rural and urban, is marginalized.
 
Old 06-26-2014, 08:05 PM
 
Location: Brookline, PGH
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Likewise, along with the Pitt-Penn State game. Those games could make or break your season sometimes. Just too much money involved these days, I guess.
As thankful as I am that we (WVU) landed on our feet in the Big 12, it's a damn shame that us Eastern Independents were unable to form an all-sports conference back in the late '80s when Florida State and Miami were both for the taking. As soon as the Nits went to the Big 10 and the Big East basketball schools decided to start leaching gridiron profits, Eastern Football was doomed.

Of course, the Texas and Oklahoma fans don't call us inbred hicks when they come to Mountaineer Field... and it's amazing how much nicer we are to them in return.
 
Old 06-26-2014, 08:12 PM
 
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As James Carville famously said:

"Between Paoli and Penn Hills, Pennsylvania is Alabama without the blacks."
 
Old 06-26-2014, 08:15 PM
 
Location: Penn Hills
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You're right... so go start a thread about rural xenophobia towards city folk.
Nope, because just like the inverse, it doesn't actually affect anything. Neither group is oppressed.
 
Old 06-26-2014, 08:25 PM
 
Location: North by Northwest
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Nope, because just like the inverse, it doesn't actually affect anything. Neither group is oppressed.
One group is definitely viewed more unfavorably by the public as a whole than the other. Such treatment doesn't have to rise to the level of "oppression" to be meaningful, nor should it be defended or justified on that basis.
 
Old 06-26-2014, 08:31 PM
 
Location: The canyon (with my pistols and knife)
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As James Carville famously said:

"Between Paoli and Penn Hills, Pennsylvania is Alabama without the blacks."
Not that that's ever been true or anything.
 
Old 06-26-2014, 08:31 PM
 
Location: Brookline, PGH
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Nope, because just like the inverse, it doesn't actually affect anything. Neither group is oppressed.
So Appalachian and rural southern poverty don't actually exist? And conversely, rural ignorance of urban issues doesn't have any political ramifications? I think you're seeing only the superficial aspects of this divide.

Which even the "superficial" aspects of this can be quite bothersome: I'm going to go ahead and assume that you've never had any one insinuate that you're parents are brother and sister or that you **** goats? Because I have. And I've been expected to take it in stride, or else I'm a "thinned skinned hillbilly."
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