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Social Darwinism is part of American culture, cities are no exception. Outside of "woke" college liberal types, urban Democrats are often pretty content to sh** on homeless people, criminals, people of other races, etc. Source: I live there.
What many rural Americans have is the ideal of living with no government whatsoever... pure fantasy. Take them to areas in other countries with effectively no government presence, they'd beg to go back home.
Could you give examples of the types of problems in the villages?
If you are going to compare and contrast it is only fair to provide such information.
Sure, there are no articles I can find but I can list them:
The houses are made from concrete which isn't stable, the road leading to the village was destroyed by a mudslide, their in a mountain pass so the homes are squeezed together on a dirt road. Impossible to have running faucets, snow storms are hell.
There is no medicine or CVS nearby so you have to take trips to a nearby city.
But about 4,000 people live there, most related, and the people make do and are pretty happy.
Zero crime, absolutely none. Suicide is unheard of, everyone lives close together.
In my county of about 30,000 people, there are about 12-15 food banks and at least a few of them are on the honor system -- meaning people can take as much as what they want when they want, and some are open 24/7 (or at least they were in December when I read the article). People are so generous here that just before Christmas, the head of the community foundation that oversees most of the charities here asked that people do not donate to the food banks because they were overloaded, but that people donate to the local United Way instead because it had not yet met its goal. After he posted, the local United Way exceeded its yearly goal by 50%.
Oh, and btw, 97.4% of the residents in my zip code (1,326 population) have at least a high school education, and 61.4% have at least a bachelors degree.
People who generalize rural areas as being "all the same" are simply clueless, I think.
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