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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with this. I think I grew up in the elite class, or possibly higher gentry, and when i travelled and deliberately spent time in rural parts of America, I was just truly shocked.  A set of rules I could not understand [/quote]

Quite the opposite, I was raised L1/L2 in semi-rural America, in a house full of guns, cigarette smoke, John Wayne movies, country music and red label Scotch.  I am always shocked by how many of the policymakers in DC have never even seen that (much less lived it), other than glimpses in some [i]Orange is the New Black[/i] backstories.  So much of DC thinks of rural America as a punchline, and I am amazed how many here avoid "flyover country" out of actual fear (fueled by ignorance and stereotyping), as opposed to mere disinterest.  [/quote]

Yes I realized how thick my bubble was when I took those trips.  For example I would have grown up thinking a fast food person was a truly horrible job, just the bottom of the barrel.  In many parts of America that is a good job, and one of the only ones available.  That was truly shocking for me.  I realized how sheltered I had been [/quote]

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