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I agree. It's not the answer someone looking to narrow it down would be looking for but the truth is that all of the United States is the real United States. City urban, suburban, and rural.
Hollywood and what it shows/represents and promotes on the silver screen is not the real America. Rather, the real America lives in the suburbs or rural areas and works sometimes 2 jobs to get by, has cranky kids, and a lonely housewife. Rural America is the "real" America, freindly folk you meet often, who know your family, perhaps running or owning your own small business and CONSERVATIVE FOLK WHO DONT WANT SOCIALISIM OR BIGGER GOVERNMENT OR ANYTHING IT PROMOTES, SELLS OR PUTS A BURDENSOME TAX ON. THE REAL AMERICA WANTS TO BE LEFT ALONE, TO BE INDEPENDANT AND SELF-SUFFICIENT AND WITH LOWER TAXES!
New York and Los Angeles are really the only thing in America. The rest of it is inhabited by slack-jawed subhumans who club each other on the head and don't even have electrcity. Haven't the movies taught you that by now?
As a matter of demographics, most Americans do not live in small towns. Most live in the metro areas of the nation's 100 largest cities.
True, I was just guessing more uniquely American places. I tried to put provisos that the real America is many things.
Still it does seem like only a few of these cities get any media attention. In the last ten years how many TV series or films were set in the Cincinatti, Indianapolis, San Antonio, or Nashville metropolitan areas?
As the "heartland of America",I would say the Midwest is probably the "real America". I am from the NE and live in the South now (ugh). I PREFER the NE, but I can give the Midwest it's due.
The "majority" of Americans only seem "lower class" when compared side-by-side with uber-wealthy.
The vast majority of Americans enjoy a standard of living that many in the World would love to have, and are truly "middle class" in a global context. I think the downfall of our system might eventually be the jealousy and false sense of "poor me" that is constantly promoted by people like you. If people focused more on what they have than what they don't have, we'd all be better off.
I grew up lower-middle class. Neither of my parents went to college or made much money. Now I'm a first generation college grad and pretty proud of it. I'm not going to be wealthy, but I might end up a little ahead of where my parents were. Hopefully it will be the same for my kids someday.
I've never had a lot of great "stuff" or extra money lying around, but I know a good thing when I have it. I think I'm a product of the "real America." This guy's attitude might be more prevalent in the "future America", unfortunately. I'm a lot more concerned about our nation surviving THAT than anything else.
Drama queen huh? wow, You must be a republican. Well if you haven't noticed as of late: The old "Doing a little better than my parents" gravy train ran out when Bush ruined our economy. So many people who are stuck at the bottom will more than likely stay at the bottom until somebody fixes this mess. Jobs are scarce, millions of people are going bankrupt because of the ridiculous cost of health care, and now a days you have to "know somebody" to get into the higher paying jobs.
And to make it all worse college is unaffordable and the system is set up for them to be uber-competitive to get scholarships, so the vast majority of our children have basically no hope, but to work at mcDonalds or Wal-mart for the rest of their lives. Face it, our society is set up to weed out the weak from grade-school up.
It's sounds idealistic when you say that most of America is jealous and needs to be "thankful" for what they have. Well the real world doesn't work that way and you know it. Money runs everything now a days.
So what "reality" exactly do you live in? I see this happening everyday in my city.
As the "heartland of America",I would say the Midwest is probably the "real America". I am from the NE and live in the South now (ugh). I PREFER the NE, but I can give the Midwest it's due.
Yes, the Midwest is the "real America" as stereotyped in the media, Hollywood, etc... Home to teabaggers (ha) and other hooligans like that.
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