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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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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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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] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Or ya know, policies that simply ignored them. Can't constantly erode the social contract then wonder why people radicalize themselves.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

flee the cities to escape racial integration

for some reason this podunk town in the middle of nowhere does not have the jobs and resources of the city

refuse to pay taxes out of short sightedness

why does living in the country suck shit? It must be all them minorities and democrats

I'm living around nothing but people that think and act like me and I'm still miserable, surely it is the fault of everyone else

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes and no. Republicans haven't done jack shit for the majority of rural folks anymore than democrats have. The problem is Republicans got to them first via social media and readily available news outlets that are popular in those regions, convincing them that all their problems are being caused strictly by liberal politicians, as well as veiled/not veiled bigoted accusations against other demographics (e.g. immigrants, gays, trans, etc). Ironically, democrats in recent years have tried to win them back by bringing green tech to lots of plains states (e.g. wind farm boom) as well as more jobs (e.g. infrastructure bill), but this is ignored because the GOP are better at psyops than democrats.

[+] [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.)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Naw. Reagan put the flag on the teevee and said "you flyover folk're tr00 Murican patreets, now lemme take away all taxpayer funded services an give that money to the rich" and the rural folks saluted and whooped and hollered.

Newspapers and radio at the time (and even some tv, believe it or not) said this is what was happening, and "blue collar Republicans" ignored it.

Then Reagan said tv and radio didn't have to have balanced political opinions and talk radio lobotomized the next two generations without even trying. Propaganda works, just as republiQan strategist Joseph Göebbels predicted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Saw what you did there. Smooth transition at the end. I‘ll keep that republican strategist idea. :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I dont think the sources they provide show it wasnt always the case. I mean one of thems about post ww2 europe.