Why Do We Value Country Folk More Than City People?

[DonCoquixote]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/opinion/republicans-democrats-trump-urban-rural.html

[KCDebbie]

1. Country folk are not Urban folk and Urban is a euphemism for BLACK!

[Squinch]

4. Exactly.

[JI7]

5. That's it

[WhiteTara]

13. Astute. Welcome to DU

[SWBTATTReg]

2. I don't, because I think all of us have value, regardless of location...

Unfortunately, since most of rumps' support seems to come from rural areas, these folks are being mentioned and/or discussed endlessly because of their role in electing this monster of a president and human being.

There are tons of us in urban and suburban areas, that don't support rump, never did, never will. You don't seem to hear anything about us in the news.

Well, w/ the way things seem to be looking (Nov 2018 elections and beyond), the media and others will finally have to pay attention to us, and these people who comprise only a tiny sliver of Americans.

Silent majority. Let's change this and scream, yell, stomp our feet, show our feelings too, after all, I still remember the rump supporter who elbowed a non-rump supporter in the face as he was being led out. Rump himself has encouraged violence too, don't forget this. Told cops to not be gentle in putting arrested people in police vehicles, etc.

[kimbutgar]

3. Country folk stay in their small towns, don't expand their knowledge, and like living a quieter life

I get it but they only use tv as their experience to the real world and got sucked into the Fox, right wing industrial media and become fooled lost souls. Their worst instincts are dudged up and they now control all three branches of our government. Even though they are smaller in number. The Russian asset party are evil geniuses to recognize they could manipulate these good ole boys and girls.

[H2O Man]

6. silly

[kimbutgar]

11. I was born and raised in a big city.

During college and later lived in the suburbs, then semi rural and rural for a total of 6 years.

The city is much better and the people in the city are more interesting.

[Alpeduez21]

7. B/c the mainstream media gives more weight and discussion

to right wing concerns than to progressives. It just so happens that most rural people are also white.

[Freddie]

8. The founding fathers

Wrote structural advantages to rural areas in our system back when the country was 90% agricultural. And back then the states were probably more equal in population. Would they have deliberately given 400k in Wyoming more power than 4M in Los Angeles? In so many ways we are being held hostage by a 250 year old document. I know the RWNJs love to say how our system was never meant to be one person one vote counted equally - but does that make it right?

[Codeine]

9. A matter of melanin. nt

[Crunchy Frog]

10. Because their votes are worth more.

[handmade34]

12. yup

sadly