Entire libraries worth of ink have been poured in an effort to understand, mythologize, and explain the behavior of white rural voters — why they are so attached to former President Donald Trump, and perhaps the ways that voters and politicians in more cosmopolitan areas don't understand the sufferi...
You say this like I haven’t been talking to these people all of my life.
What?
I’m not saying that rural folks are stupid about everything or that all of them are stupid. Just when it comes to politics and voting, the vast majority of them are. I’m just explaining what my experiences are having spent my entire life around these people. They’re my family.
So your sample size is just your family… and you think you’re having a rational conversation that isn’t biased as fuck?
Does this statement now make more sense?
Outside of your family… Can you legitimately say that you see much difference between rural and metro trains of thought? Or do both groups tend to vote based on the issues that they perceive to be important to them? Eg, does the examples I gave above make sense why the different mindsets would cause reasonable people to vote differently based simply on location?
I felt like I was being fairly clear by saying that, that I didn’t mean just my actual blood relatives, but also friends and community.
Whether intentional or not, that’s a strawman.
I’ve never lived in a large city, so I couldn’t speak to that.
In any case, I don’t feel like this conversation is terribly productive and probably won’t continue.