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Not only have I heard of them I've been to most of them.
While doing what?
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Originally Posted by spider99
Read my last post......
When people refer to the heartland, they're not talking about St Louise or Cleveland my friend. They're talking about rural america. While poverty exists in these areas, as does crime, the type of crazy violent **** that goes on where we are from simply does not exist in rural America as a collective whole. And don't pull that race card BS with me, because I ain't white.
I don’t give a damn what your race is, and I’ll say anything I damn well want to whether you’re white or not.
The “heartland” is every city and municipality within it...big and small. Chicago is just as much “the heartland” as Bloomington is. GTHOH.
It makes a great deal of sense. Big cities have more population. That means there will be more of everything: wealth, poverty, you name it. It's ridiculous to compare a small town to a big city in terms of sheer numbers, about anything.
Tomorrow, the day after, or sometime next week, the OP will be complaining about the concentration of wealth in urban areas. Count on it.
You didn't say anything to support your purported point.
If you marry a crazy person or cheat on your wife or cheat your business partner, that's something you have control over. What people care about most is unprovoked violent crime by strangers. And that comes from one particular slice of the demographic pie.
It makes a great deal of sense. Big cities have more population. That means there will be more of everything: wealth, poverty, you name it. It's ridiculous to compare a small town to a big city in terms of sheer numbers, about anything.
It makes a great deal of sense. Big cities have more population. That means there will be more of everything: wealth, poverty, you name it. It's ridiculous to compare a small town to a big city in terms of sheer numbers, about anything.
I've heard of lots of surburbs falling on hard times and even cities, but I've not really heard of towns, especially small towns, becoming war zones or slums.
So what exactly does happen to smaller towns when many of the jobs leave (either to cities or to some third world corporate paradise) ?
The only thing I can really think of of concern is that there might be dangers of rising opioid addictions, but that's about it.
The only higher crime area around me that I know of, and the town is still pretty big, is Streator, IL, though when I asked about it, mainly I heard that it was "dirty" (meaning run down, old buildings).
"are they mostly in urban areas only?
I'm confused. Are they in MOSTLY urban areas or ONLY in urban areas?
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