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It’s so weird, right? Like I’m not a monster for liking living in a city? I’m a city girl. I respect other people’s different choices. Please also respect mine??? Another one of those “why must this be so difficult” questions. VERY annoying.

I don’t think it’s simply because they live in real areas. I think it’s because the American constitution literally gives people who live in real areas more voting power. If you live in a dense urban area electorally youre a second class citizen so they focus on the people whose votes matter or more

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There are also people in rural areas who are not cruel backward conservatives. There are first gen immigrants and BIPOC ppl living in rural areas. Somehow we never hear from those 'heartland dirt under their fingernails real Americans'. Weird.

Grew up in Oklahoma, Texas, Tennessee. California forever.

American apartheid requires the concept of “real” Americans (who just so happen to support white male supremacy) to legitimize a system of minority rule (by white men) and call it democracy

Once you have the self control not to eat a kebab that will go through you like a dose of plutonium after you have drank twelve pints of Estrella will you reach true wisdom, young Padawan.

It's a kind of simplified GW Bush style-shortcut, like country music stereotypes, that have the appeal of someone saying 'life doesn't have to complicated - it could be simple, like this, here in the heartland'. Where exactly? Oh you know. There. Back when it was great, remember?

If anything it seems to be the opposite

Yearly negative polarization as I think maybe President Coriolanus Snow and the Capitol government had some good ideas in “Hunger games”

Yup 💯! bsky.app/profile/wvis...

It happens globally. I'm done with it. I'm now a screeching rural lefty who wears a camo jacket AND brightly colored tights and if my cousins don't like it fuck em. I fly my peace flag from my container and I hope maga brains explode!!!

People point to giant swaths of "red" America and I'm like bro that's a national forest and 40% of the people who live around it are lib/left!!!!

I grew up in rural areas so remote you drove 80 miles to get to a street light. People there are exactly the same as cityfolk-- except massively intolerant of anyone "different" and really great ar othering so they don't have to change their small minded status quo, they just drive out the "weird"

So what am I, urbanite who spends a fair amount of time in rural areas recently, not getting? It's all them wanting to impose their fucked up morals on cities*, or whining that more money is spent where people live. *Guns being the only exception where it's reversed.

If I see one fucking more white diner safari…

Grew up with these dumb racist rurals that were scared of everything. So dumb.

More Americans live in coastal states than landlocked ones, and yet it’s the majority who are allegedly “out of touch”.

PREACH!

More people play Warcraft than farm.

And I include a lot of leftists in that “they.” It has been enraging to see post after post asking us to not get angry at people in rural areas while people in rural areas call for war. bsky.app/profile/mich...

B-but Thomas Jefferson! Walt Whitman!

So, y'know, there's that side of the "tight-knit small town" that doesn't get mentioned. 3/3

They complain about less respect, but personally I find it very hard to respect someone who instantly treats me with disrespect, suspicion, and derision based solely on where I live. So many of these interviewees come off as more entitled than the people they decry as entitled.

Canadian, but same system!

I grew up in a rural area. One of my brothers still lives there with his family. I live in a city now. I’m entirely familiar with rural lifestyles; I’ve just chosen something else for myself.

I was at a funeral when some Republican relatives saw my bumper sticker and said, "Oh great, the liberals are here."

It has nothing really to do with city living/rural living. It's that 50 years ago being a fucking white supremacist wasn't popular and they retreated from the cities to hide their evil out in the sticks. And now they're back in our cities. And we need to kick them out.

I am attempting to work my brain around the statement about state governments being "controlled by the city". What did they expect? Their job is to select someone from their community to represent their interests "in the city". These people are morons - and not because they are rural

They never interview the teachers, surveyors, construction workers of these areas. Only the people who can comfortably sit down at the diner during midday. Infuriating.

'NOVa is bad!' is a standard trope here. So many rural folk who've never lived elsewhere, vote accordingly, & yes, most often against their best interests, repeatedly.

City Liberals are happier than Rural Conservatives. I have said my truth.

Not sure, but I think a thick nature=God artery feeds America’s subconscious. Not qualified to say if this true or not or how it came to be if so, but I’m fascinated by America’s specific iteration of it, good and ill.

Right?? I'm sure that's a third of the people working at the Times! So why do they keep running these stories?

Hell, I'm from the city and live in the city now and I understand them all too well. They never shut up and the media never stops platforming them. Afraid of public transportation. Afraid of drag queens. Want farm subsidies but don't want to pay taxes.

This!!!!….Wva raised, currently living in Ca.

Glad you guys were able to escape as well

There's a documentary on Prohibition on Netflix that discusses a big part of it was fuelled by racism. The economic base was moving away from rural farms to the cities with migrants. The German migrants were opening breweries and making their weird "beer"

I get this in the UK where people seem to be afraid of, disconnected from, or simply dislike London

They always cry "Tyranny of the majority" while holding the country at literal gunpoint