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Rural areas in the US tend to be conservative electoral strongholds. However, it wasn't always the case. The shift happened in when technological changes brought agribusiness who favored Republicans. (www.cambridge.org)

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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.

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[+] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think I pay enough taxes and i don't make all that much.

You know you can pay them more if you want to, feel free!

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.

Alright well at least you get me lol. You'd be surprised how few people even acknowledge it as a problem much less understand why one would be upset about said problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"What is the village but a sink of localism, a den ofignorance, narrow-mindedness and communalism?"

-Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

https://web.archive.org/web/20180110194134/http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/debates/vol7p1b.htm

(Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who headed the committee drafting the Constitution of India from the Constituent Assembly debates, served as Law and Justice minister in the first cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru, and inspired the Dalit Buddhist movement after renouncing Hinduism.)