I hate this shit so much and I refuse to play the “city dwellers must always be humble and servile to their noble country lords” game that too many Americans still buy into.
It’s always people from mid size nowhere cities that are just stroads and strip malls that cling to the “rural” identity virtue signaling. They have Starbucks and work in offices yet feel the need to project this persona, the most vocal people about it are usually transplants from major metro areas
WV here. Even in my small town, people get on their high horse about real america. American rural life depend on goods made in centralized locations. It always has! The general store 200y ago, walmart now. Driving into town once a week with a shit eating grin as they shop. Fucking hate that shit.
A black friend of mine, who’s an avid fly fisherman, will not go out into to wild rural areas without a white friend tagging along, because of those noble country lords you speak of
I hate it so much and I constantly point out to my family that the worst parts about living in a city is how people who don't live in the city try to fuck it up.
My favorite is Hilary said basket of deplorables one time and it was a whole thing. How many times has Trump literally said that liberals kill babies after birth? And that's like oh whatever.
Country people suck ass most of the time. I should know I'm a country person. The whole "thank a farmer for feeding you!!!" Reads really hollow when 9/10 they're growing the worst crop possible for the land that's inedible for human consumption to fatten up slaughter animals faster.
It's also fun living in a rural area and knowing you're completely outnumbered, so you have to be quiet, or they'll vandalize your house and/or your car.
18% of the US population is rural and I'll be damned if I let that minority dictate policy.
City person born and bread, have walked some of the most allegedly dangerous streets in NY, LA & Chicago, and the only time I was truly fearful of my safety was traveling alone in remote rural areas.
Yeah, I’m sick of their shit. Always bitching and moaning about the poor benighted real America rural towns when they *literally did it to themselves* by allowing Walmart to crush every single local business in their areas. And we get to subsidize Walmart workers with aid. No wonder your kids left
A significant portion of the backwoods back home was hippies and weirdos and nudists and people surreptitiously farming weed out back, but somehow THOSE don’t seem to count in the ol’ “salt of the earth rural Americans” narrative
Problem:
A lot of rural people think they can starve the cities into submission.
I hate to say this but, until we figure out how to synthesize everyone, we're kinda at their mercy.
Yet neither party does jack shit for rural folks. And when I say rural folks I mean people who live in rural areas who aren't fucking wealthy landowners
I think a lot is missed in that farmers are just as varied in politics as anyone else. In Canada we have a lot of left leaning farmers who are terrified of climate change, etc. to the east.
And then in the prairies (gas and oil land) it largely shifts conservative.
