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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's always been amazing how people in rural red state America always seem to think they know so much more about what's going on in cities they never even visit than the people who actually live there do.

Hubris fueled by propaganda.[/quote]

:lol:  :lol: 
Oh, the irony![/quote]

If only.  See, the problem is that many of us here in DC originally came from rural redneck communities and we do actually know what we're talking about when it comes to the dead-ends we escaped from.
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Yes, and many others in DC have never set foot outside their "safe zone," which ONLY includes large, metropolitan areas.  You can see post after post of these urbanites slamming "flyover country" and the people who live there.  You may have come from a "redneck" community, but many small towns and rural areas are not full of ignorant rednecks.  Not to mention, funny that these people never want to address all the ignorant, low-education people living IN the cities themselves. [/quote]

Shows you don't actually know.

The cities are extremely diverse.  Far more of us have come from elsewhere, and have traveled extensively around the country and around the world than is the case in your homogenous little community were people act like you need a passport to cross the county line.[/quote]

Who are you? Do you hear yourself?! We can all hear an insufferable snob speaking.[/quote]

LOL most of us here on DCUM are your former neighbors.  The ones who escaped to the cities rather than be trapped in dead ends with limited job opportunities.  And that means we actually do know quite a bit about you, your community, your cultural realities and the fake front you try and present here on DCUM.  So how about you stop lying and pretending and acting like we don't know anything about you.  And if speaking the blunt truth gets us labeled as "insufferable snobs" that then becomes more a statement about yourself than it does us.[/quote]

DP.
The funniest part of your post is "escaped to cities."

Just a reminder that YOUR limited experience with rural life, or life outside the "cities" you escaped to is simply YOUR experience.  People who live outside your "cities" are not a monolith.  [/quote]

Sure hon.  Keep telling yourself that.  I hear my own life story echoed over and over and over from friends I meet here in DC who grew up in Kansas, in Idaho, in Arkansas, Missouri, et cetera.  You're more of a monolith than you realize.[/quote]

DP.

There’s nothing honorable about escaping your red state.

The honorable thing to do is go back and do the hard work necessary to fuel evolution. Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, etc. need a continuous influx of educated democrats to help spark moderation of aggressively conservative policy.

Anyone can abandon their community for a better life in a thriving metro area. Anyone. It doesn’t make you better. It’s just the easy, selfish thing to do. [/quote]

Sure, we could go back.  But why?  What's to draw us back?  MAGAs behaving like a-holes is a huge turn-off.  I still have family there, I go and visit, I keep in touch with people I went to high school with - of the ones I went to high school with, many moved away like I did, and they are normal people.  But when I talk to ones who stayed behind, it's sad, and sometimes shocking, for example a month ago when I was back home and ran into a former high school friend who made some completely casual, unvarnished comments that were extremely racist... and in the back of my mind I suddenly realized that's the kind of thing he *always* used to say but back when I lived there it wasn't quite as shocking because that kind of language was ubiquitous.  Is it my job to go back and change their culture?  They don't want to change.  They don't see anything wrong with things like racist comments.  They look down on "city folk."  They think it's some kind of hilarious thing to do things like illegally modify their diesel pickup truck fuel systems in order to belch oily black clouds of soot at the flip of a switch just to harass bicyclists and drivers of EVs and hybrids.  Doing utterly moronic things even at the expense of their own wallet, their own health and wellbeing to "own the libs" is a warped sport for them.  Why would I want to deal with that?[/quote]

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