cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/2668759
Rural areas in the US tend to be conservative electoral strongholds. However, it wasn’t always the case. The shift happened in the post-WWII period when technological changes enabled the rise of c…
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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/smurfyjenkins on 2024-04-15 15:45:02.
Original Title: Rural areas in the US tend to be conservative electoral strongholds. However, it wasn’t always the case. The shift happened in the post-WWII period when technological changes enabled the rise of capital-intensive agriculture and the rising power of agribusiness who favored Republican policies.
That’s just fuckin ignorant. I live in rural America (upstate NY). I’m a Democrat. I’m a gun owner. I used to be a card carrying NRA member (I was young but that’s only so much an excuse). I’m a staunch pro choice AKA it’s none of my fuckin business supporter. I don’t think I pay enough taxes and i don’t make all that much. I do think my fuckin tax money is pissed away at an alarming rate so i completely understand those who don’t believe in raising taxes.
I don’t make idiotic generalizations based on the contents of my bowels to support whatever angle you tried to approach at. You burned up on entry dude/dudette. Everyone has a past and wildly differentiating circumstances as to why they support what they support. Ignorance is just a slice.
I certainly wasn’t trying to state that I was describing every single rural person in America. Just the broader culture of it. Sorry if I bothered you.
Fair enough, i def overreacted. That’s def a my bad.
No worries. You did help illuminate that even rural culture is not homogenous by any stretch. Even in deep red middle America there is bound to be some variety.