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Folks from rural areas prioritize cultural signaling for conservativism over economic growth. I'd hazard that Mr. Zink would probably vote Trump again, given the opportunity, if the opposite candidate publicly supported trans rights or was just a Democratic black woman.
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Goosechase.jpg "You won't meet anyone more conservative than me, and I didn't vote for this"
"WHAT DID YOU VOTE FOR THEN"
God people in rural communities are so stupid when they vote. I live in a very lopsided state. Just for ease of understanding, about 80% of the state is rural, but also 80% of the people live in the cities. Rural folks often forget just how many more people live in cities.
So they get resentful and say "why are MAH tax dollars going to all them city folks"! I've had this talk so many times with them, why should they pay (like pennies or their salary) to my city improvements just because they're state taxes?
Well, rural guy, because in actuality "us city folk" subsidize all of the rural state. They think they're paying for our stuff but turns out density is way cheaper and way more economically viable than rural. So we subsidize them all the time. I always remind them who do they think pays for the roads, the infrastructure, their state parks? It's not them and their low tax income. Their life depends on the city people
And then they vote to hurt us by cutting programs... And forget that we were paying for them to be on those programs.
Their only connection to the outside world used to be newspapers, then radio and television, now it's the internet. This makes them extremely vulnerable to disinformation.
I can't count the number of times I've been lectured by some yokel on how the city I've lived my entire life in is actually a warzone with shaira law.
Same! They're absolutely terrified of my city and to me it's like, what the place where I walked to get my bagel this morning?
its a hellhole and fire, says fox pundits. in hindsight, the homeless problems, drug addicts are brought on by the gop truncating these 2 groups to liberal cities, its not by accident you see an increase every few years, they are being bussed or given a ticket here. MSM/fox will never report on it, because it just makes the gop states look bad.
It's nothing new that we are forced to deal with their problems