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In reply to the discussion: Why do Democrats do so poorly with rural voters? [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)So that's what I based my response on.
The Democrats haven't done a great job reaching out to them. There aren't enough of them in clusters to be worthwhile to campaign in, unless you're pretty sure you've got a decent shot, is my guess. And there's nothing out there to draw them to the Democratic Party without a concerted effort to bring them in. Also, like I said in my first post, on the internet you'll find a bit of "liberals" deriding southerners and their way of life. Some Democrats have, in fact, said they want to take away all guns, their guns, and have said that religious people are the cause of many evils (the so-called liberals forget to say "historically" .
Still, I think a number of rural people would vote Democratic, if they understood the party's positions better. And if they felt the Party cared about their concerns.
I moved to the big city. Many rural people do. So more rural people end up understanding big city life more than the other way around, I think, since not many urban people move to rural areas. I like some things about both ways of life.