Funny. I’m a former hillbilly who now lives in the city. I hate it. I’m biding my time until I return to the hills with some money where I can hate people all alone, in my trailer, in peace and quiet.
I grew up rural. Town of 135. I’ve always maintained the real divide in this country is rural versus everybody else. It’s just a different outlook. A different work ethic. Even different travel time.
Their failure to define rural people is the crux of every criticism. One of their subjects of exploration is a town of 40,000 people ten minutes away from a major city. A 1 on the RUCA scale. The "rural anger" they write about is actually urban and suburban but they are literally too stupid to realize they've made the error.
I'm from the sticks in Southern Ohio, and I don't know how to define “rural people.” The problem is they've always been expendable people, whoever they are, to be used and exploited. From the coal mines of Kentucky (now shut) to the lost battlefields of empire (now forgotten). Etc. It's a bigger issue than “rural people.” It's a varied people left undefined by the elites, save for hillbilly or trash. A people betrayed and largely forgotten by an elite who now want to sweep them under the rug. Yeah, they're pissed, but for a million reasons that go beyond simply being “rural people.” That part seems to have been lost in the analysis.
Funny. I’m a former hillbilly who now lives in the city. I hate it. I’m biding my time until I return to the hills with some money where I can hate people all alone, in my trailer, in peace and quiet.
I grew up rural. Town of 135. I’ve always maintained the real divide in this country is rural versus everybody else. It’s just a different outlook. A different work ethic. Even different travel time.
Rednecks with rebel flags flying and wrecks parked in the front yards. Also, rotten teeth from meth and Mountain Dew abuse.
That's some parts of it.
You're correct.
Seeing as how they are unable to correctly define rural people I don't think that's it.
Their failure to define rural people is the crux of every criticism. One of their subjects of exploration is a town of 40,000 people ten minutes away from a major city. A 1 on the RUCA scale. The "rural anger" they write about is actually urban and suburban but they are literally too stupid to realize they've made the error.
I'm from the sticks in Southern Ohio, and I don't know how to define “rural people.” The problem is they've always been expendable people, whoever they are, to be used and exploited. From the coal mines of Kentucky (now shut) to the lost battlefields of empire (now forgotten). Etc. It's a bigger issue than “rural people.” It's a varied people left undefined by the elites, save for hillbilly or trash. A people betrayed and largely forgotten by an elite who now want to sweep them under the rug. Yeah, they're pissed, but for a million reasons that go beyond simply being “rural people.” That part seems to have been lost in the analysis.
Adams County. I still have land there.