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If “smart people” are liberal and urban and us conservatives are less intelligent and rural or suburban as liberals ALWAYs claim then why are our towns safer, cleaner and nicer places to live. We pay much less to live where we do, our parts of the country are more scenic, people are happier and nicer. Explain why the nicest fastest growing cities are in the red state South. Nashville, Atlanta, Charlotte are all destination places while the so called better educated places where “smart” liberals live like Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, the entire state of New Jersey are place people cannot wait to escape. Y’all have tons of data to back up lists all which claim the best places in America are Northern and liberal and the worst places are conservative and southern but yet everyone wants to leave the liberal north. No leftist can answer why so many want out of their so called paradise.
When I was young I used to listen to the defectors talk about why they left the Soviet Union too....the Soviets also thought they had a socialist paradise.
Chill, dude. Calm yourself. You seem to be taking this all very personally and getting offended. Isn't that kinda snowflakey?
You're talking about two different things, here. There's a difference between cities attracting the highest proportion of the most highly educated people (which is fact. Totally objective. Getting snarky about is kinda silly), and cities being pleasant, desirable places to live (which is opinion. Entirely subjective).
You don't like cities, particularly the large ones up north, and there's nothing wrong with that. Personally, I can understand your feelings (you'll notice that I no longer live up north, either).
But, unfortunately, you're just going to have to accept the wisdom in the well-known proverb, "Different strokes for different folks." You're going to have to accept the fact that other people have opinions that you don't, and they like things that repel you. And vice versa.
You don't want to live in NYC or Detroit (I totally get your feelings there. I was SO happy to leave Metro Detroit), but there are people who do. And that's a good thing, isn't it?
If everyone felt the same as you do, then cities like NYC, Boston, Chicago, Toronto, etc would experience a mass exodus of people, and those cities would become ghost towns. I certainly wouldn't want to see that happen. I want those cities to continue thriving, and the only way they can do that is for lots of people to live and work in them, and to enjoy doing so.
Plus, do you want everyone to move to the South? I don't. So, again, I think it's a very good thing that lots of people prefer to live up north or out west. Different folks for different folks. Let it be, dude. Relax. It's a big world with plenty of room for everyone and all kinds of opinions and preferences. Isn't that kind of diversity what helps make America great?
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I also thought about this. In the Georgia county I would observe where I saw large amounts of Trump signs. If it was a middle upper class neighborhood, or my middle class neighborhood, I might see one sign or two. When I went to areas full of older houses or places that looked more lower class, I would see Trump signs galore. If I went into a middle upper class White area, hardly any Confederate flags anywhere. Working class White area, I'd see it more.
I often see this, too. However, in more conservative states, I do see lots of support for Republican candidates in upper middle class areas. You certainly see it in the very wealthy Nashville suburbs of Williamson County. In fact, Williamson County is probably very red, and I've always wondered to what extent the presence of uber-wealthy music industry types either add or subtract from the strong Republican base.
I also remember years ago, when i lived in Metro Detroit, seeing signs supporting Bush/Cheney and McCain/Palin in suburbs like Bloomfield Hills and West Bloomfield.
Because big cities are usually cesspools of crime, drug gangs, illegals, airhead celebrities, radical left professors, angry minorities, Antifa, sex traffickers, and far left tech companies. The Epsteins and Weinsteins type sex abusers of this country need big liberal cities.
Those are all the Dems voting base.....(it’s also why Dems work so hard to get poisoned felons and illegals voting rights)
Firemen, police, military, farmers, church goers, normal working class and families are the Republican voting base....
I often see this, too. However, in more conservative states, I do see lots of support for Republican candidates in upper middle class areas. You certainly see it in the very wealthy Nashville suburbs of Williamson County. In fact, Williamson County is probably very red, and I've always wondered to what extent the presence of uber-wealthy music industry types either add or subtract from the strong Republican base.
I also remember years ago, when i lived in Metro Detroit, seeing signs supporting Bush/Cheney and McCain/Palin in suburbs like Bloomfield Hills and West Bloomfield.
Where I lived, it was an ardently Republican county. Trump got 68% of the vote. The majority of people support Trump. I think the way parts of metro Atlanta work, it's a different ball game from the Detroit area or the Nashville area. Atlanta proper is a very blue city. It's about 50% Black and 40% White. Even many Whites in Atlanta vote Democrat. Alot of Whites from other states have moved to Atlanta. Some suburban counties like DeKalb and Clayton have been Democratic since the 1990s due to both being majority-Black counties. Cobb County and Gwinnett County have gotten more liberal over the years as their populations have become more diverse, and people from other parts of the country move there.
Places like Paulding County, Bartow County, Barrow County, those are Republican strongholds. They also have larger White working class populations. The most Republican middle-upper class areas in areas like Forsyth County, Alpharetta, East Cobb, southern Cherokee County.
Because big cities are usually cesspools of crime, drug gangs, illegals, airhead celebrities, radical left professors, angry minorities, Antifa, sex traffickers, and far left tech companies. The Epsteins and Weinsteins type sex abusers of this country need big liberal cities.
Those are all the Dems voting base.....(it’s also why Dems work so hard to get poisoned felons and illegals voting rights)
Firemen, police, military, farmers, church goers, normal working class and families are the Republican voting base....
Oh, gosh. Another angry one.
So London, Paris, Vienna, Vancouver, Montréal, Prague, Berlin, Barcelona, Rome, Sydney, etc are nothing but "cesspools of crime, drug gangs, illegals, airhead celebrities, radical left professors, angry minorities, Antifa, sex traffickers, and far left tech companies"?
I didn't know that.
I also didn't know that there aren't any "firemen, police, military, farmers, church goers, normal working class and families in liberal areas/countries.
I'll have to tell my former in-laws that, dairy farmers in Canada just across the border from North Dakota who have run a very successful, generations-old family business on 5,000 acres of land. And they're liberal.
Or my former high school classmate who retired from his Chief of Police position a couple of years ago. Or my cousin's son who last year was hired by his small city's fire department. Or my former BIL who was Fire Chief in his small town in the mountains of British Columbia. By your standards, they're are liberals.
But I assume you put your money where your mouth is and boycott Hollywood entertainment and "far left" tech? No smart phones, no big-screen TVs, no Netflix, no Amazon, no social media, no TV watching, no movies? No following stupid TV shows and dumb celebrities?
You know how many meth labs there are throughout rural Tennessee? Do you have any idea of how bad the opioid problem is in East Tennessee, West Virginia, and rural Ohio and PA? I'm not suggesting for a second that drug abuse isn't a problem in liberal areas, but it's every bit as big a problem, if not often worse, in conservative areas.
Incidentally, populations of immigrants, including illegal ones, are increasing in rural areas, as they are in urban and suburban areas (see one of the links from my post upthread). When you have governments, both liberal AND conservative, who refuse to crack down on illegal immigration, that's what happens. Incidentally, Canada is a more liberal country than the US is, yet its immigration policies are far more stringent.
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Why are most rural areas and poor ritual areas republican?
You never get answer to your question. Look at the poorest states in the union the vast majority of them have been run by republicans. Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky etc. are all republican strongholds.
Because big cities are usually cesspools of crime, drug gangs, illegals, airhead celebrities, radical left professors, angry minorities, Antifa, sex traffickers, and far left tech companies. The Epsteins and Weinsteins type sex abusers of this country need big liberal cities.
Those are all the Dems voting base.....(it’s also why Dems work so hard to get poisoned felons and illegals voting rights)
Firemen, police, military, farmers, church goers, normal working class and families are the Republican voting base....
Republican voting base: white supremacists, racist cops, opioid abusers, tinfoil hat wearers, cousin marryiers, middle school dropouts, the gullibly religious morons, gun fanatics, Billy Bobs and Lulu Maes.
Why are most cities in this country that are medium sized or larger run by Democrats?
You're wrong. Most cities don't have partisan elations for Mayor and City Council. There are some cities that hold partisan elections, but more do not than do.
Out of this list of 30 major cities, which are all either medium-sized or large, only 8 run partisan elections.
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