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When people live in dense population centers they become Collectivists, Leftists and fake Progressives. Also cities attract the poor and minorities for the purposes of Welfare and Section 8 housing. All vote Democrat because it either makes them FEEL good, or they want STUFF or both. That's all.
A very unpopular truth. Urban areas do not always attract our best and brightest.
If that is true explain why places like Detroit, Saint Louis and Baltimore are the most dangerous crime ridden places in America. Why are cities filled with people looking for handouts? Why are we watching video of urbanites burning and looting?
The idea that cities are where the most educated and enlightened individuals live is a leftist fantasy.
Except the cities pay for the rurals. Whether it’s farm subsidies, tariff relief, public funding of private pensions to coal miners, Disability in the South, giveaways to Appalachia, etc. the cities are the economic engines of the country. In my state, Seattle gives $3 billion a year to 33 mostly rural counties.
Blue cities pay for rural infrastructure, we’re even paying for their broadband. That requires education and work. Cities are where the educated live and where the educated pay taxes. The less educated live in rural areas and vote Republican, putting their hands out for money from the Democratic cities while insulting them. That’s why it was so easy for Trump to appeal to them.
This crap again, it always comes back to "we're smarter" with libs
I seriously think rurals scream about socialism while desperately depending on the cities. Until they learn to stop insulting the cities, I think the cities should pull their money. Cut them off. Buy their food elsewhere and honestly, let capitalism work even if it means some farmers don't make it. A tech worker in a city knows if things go south at one company, they need to get a new job at another. They need to keep their skills current. They don't get handouts and they pay massive taxes. To do all that and get insulted by rurals is a long term problem and I'm very tired of it, especially when Trump is doling out billions of THEIR money.
Red states are over represented electorally because low populated states have the same number of senators as highly populated states. Iowa and California = equal. We know how common it has become for Republicans to win the presidency with a minority vote. That means it's easy for Iowa (or McConnell's Kentucky) to suck up blue state tax dollars. It's why so many blue states contribute more than they get back. So my answer is, the way it is set up results in blue cities generating a ton of money and being forced to hand it over to rural towns and red states, who then insult them.
The rural areas around the cities in my state are most decidedly poorer areas than in the cities. Down south, if you live in a small country town, you're either a farmer or an unemployed person living on government assistance. There's still a few service type jobs for some of the rural grocery stores, gas stations, and whatnot, but for the most part, the jobs have all relocated to the metro areas.
Almost all of our smaller towns were mill towns from the great expansion period of the USA, now that those mills are no longer needed, the only people left in those towns were the ones who didn't pack up and move to the metros.
I don't think cities care one iota about what happens outside their city limits. But as far as your opinions, I see it as the exact opposite.
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