Reply #23: I confess to not knowing the rural areas at all

[DFW]

I am a transplant from Virginia, and though I maintain
my legal residence in Dallas, it is near our regional HQ,
and I am station chief for Europe, and spend most of my
time overseas for work. I have driven through some rural
parts of Texas, but can't profess to really know them.

They struck me as poor, and populated by people who are
not very aware of the rest of the world, although this is
a gross generalization. Except for a lot of "private property,
keep out" signs, indicating ranches owned by rich people, there
were few signs of any kind of affluence, that is for sure.
Ironically, these people tend to vote for the party most likely
to keep them this way. Maybe Lakoff is right--as long as their
economic oppressors play the religion and "values" cards, they will
fall for it every time, and vote Republican no matter how much worse
off it will keep them.

As our house (we share it with another family who are best friends
of ours, and do live there full time) is right in the middle of Dallas,
and we tend to spend time with our friends when we are home, we don't
get out much to the rural areas of the state.