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Let's see.....Yep. Just another broad based negative generalization against an entire segment of American society. Don't you and Joy Reid support the same things too?
Hey, Kitty...
Somehow you missed that I was referring to my old hometown and what happened there.
Must have been in your rush to negatively generalize.
Ever see a small town with a gang problem? Homeless, graffiti? No? Me neither.
What are you talking about, Angry?
To be sure, a lot of people with problems move to big cities where there are more likely to find soup kitchens and homeless shelters or at least a relative or friend to crash with.
However, lots of small towns have problems as well: Opioid addiction, meth manufacturing, random insults spray painted on boarded-up windows, people living in ratty old trailers with no heat who might as well be homeless.
Ever see a small town with a gang problem? Homeless, graffiti? No? Me neither.
Yep, sure have, and the meth problem is way worse out there, too. the public education system is worse in most small towns in red states. The still teach creationism, not actual science, and force kids to pray.
MSNBC host Joy Reid thinks that rural Americans are “the core threat to our democracy†and pointed to a series of tweets by liberal author Jared Yates Sexton that claimed Trump supporters “do not believe in the Constitution or any founding principles unless they're advantageous†as proof of her far-left theory.
She tweeted: "This is the core threat to our democracy. The rural minority -- the people @JYSexton just wrote a long thread about -- have and will continue to have disproportionate power over the urban majority."
the public education system is worse in most small towns in red states.
So when a state flipped from red to blue it's small town schools got better? And the ones that flipped from blue to red saw their small town schools get worse?
You get the "most ridiculous post" award on this thread.
IDK, most of my food is grown in California and all the tech is made here or at least based here. I don't see how states like Alabama and Mississippi add any value to my life. If they were to disappear, there would be no change to my life. Now, if the coastal states disappeared then the many people in those states would suffer. I agree that we need to co-exist and there my be aspects that we both depend on each-other for but I don't see it as equal.
FYI, those "farmers" in the heartland are big corporations based on the coasts that produce corn for cattle and high fructose corn syrup that goes into almost all processed foods. Stuff I try to avoid. The days of the family farm are dead and these farms are also heavily subsidized by the Federal Government. That means taxes from the 'liberals'.
Don't you just love that low wage immigrant /slave labor! Oh btw I try to avoid any food produced in PRK. including fruits and veggies (I grow my own) My dairy products come right out the Fam's 300 head dairy herd including locally produced cheeses,etc.
I'm one of those who has lived in both. Grew up in Provo, Utah. Not exactly rural, but both sets of grandparents had very small farms on the edge of town. I lived in Seattle and the surrounding suburbs for a while, spent 30 years in NYC, am now in the 'burbs of NJ, but keep my main residence in rural PA.
This hating on the rural areas is worse than tiresome; it's going to stir up some really bad blood - to a boiling point. There are absolutely benefits and drawbacks to life in either location. One isn't any "better" than the other. It's just preference, and the urban dwellers that feel the need to denigrate and slander the rural seriously need to lose the pretentious attitude. If you took half the posts bashing those in rural areas from this board and applied them to any other group... they're as bad, or worse, than anything you'd find on Stormfront. Do you posters realize how venomous and sick you are?
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