Well I don’t know what acting in good faith means. Nor do I care whether I am “new here.” I post on many sites based on the topic and don’t get hung up in some tribal community. From my perspective, I answered you very specifically with independent sources. Sorry if I misunderstood you.
Take care.
Dan
Just to follow up, I agree that racism and prejudice are issues. I never
meant to say otherwise. But they are not the only reasons people are
supporting Trump. And my issue with this article is its intellectual rigor.
I don’t know, nor do you, what percent of his following is racist. We can
conjecture and submit to the pictures we see on popular media, but no poll
will identify it. My personal opinion is that prejudiced is a part of the
human condition. However, discrimination is how we choose to express our
innate prejudices. I am not a strong Christian, but I do believe that one
of its strengths is the act of confessing our weaknesses with the hope of
overcoming them. At the end of the day, humanity progresses when we
achieve this goal; with or without religion.
I think that could go both ways: we’ve definitely got the dichotomy of most of the population in one spot in a corner of the state and then the vast majority of the rest of the state being rural and underpopulated, resulting in tensions about how to allocate the state budget. There are differences in priorities, obviously, as well as where the lion’s share of the taxpayer money is coming from.
At this point, I think most of the people who move to Chicago as adults are doing so from a suburb rather than a real rural area, or else from an entirely different part of the country/world because of a job. There wouldn’t be the same “whew, glad I left there”, I don’t think, especially considering how quickly people move back out to the suburbs once they’re trying to start a family.
I get the feeling that the author of the Cracked piece is from Mount Vernon or Du Quoin or somewhere else in the state that might as well be a different planet. It sucks for that part of the state because they don’t get much representation because of low population, and then more people leave because the coal industry’s dying and people are out of work. It’s not like when people say they’re from a “small town” and it’s really just a smallish suburb.
Yeah, that makes sense. Without the knowledge or ability to go elsewhere, especially when elsewhere isn’t just ‘down the road a piece’, you’re stuck and you don’t even understand how or why it happened. And as we all know, humans need to make sense of their surroundings, so we’ll come up with a narrative to try to find a pattern and fit the pieces together.
Consider your views noted!
My husband has that same shirt…
The pure… it’s not even ignorance. I’m not sure what this is.
So let it be written…
Clearly, guys, (and @LearnedCoward and @anon67050589) to solution to the rural-urban divide is to have the city people swap places with the country ones and vice versa… worked out well in the cultural revolu… Oh, wait…
I’ve seen both sides of this too. The sneering from the cities come from certain people, and I’ve noticed they’ve tended to come from the suburbs and live in cities and are upwardly mobile. And I’ve most certainly heard people smacking on those of us who live in (or near) cities. Frankly, I don’t enjoy either, but it’s not everyone in either place. It’s people who have no experience with the other or have had some sort of bad experiences of the other.
Antisemitism. The word you are looking for is antisemitism.
Here in the ATL, most of the anti-country set come from elsewhere, it seems to me (note this is only personal experience). And lots of those people dislike Atlanta and don’t think it’s a proper city anyway. I think that’s a good guess on your part for ATL, Nashville, or Chicago.
Yet they are still supporting the candidate who is feeding racist fantasies. They may not believe they are being racist, but they are supporting the candidate that has some actively racists policies. His rhetoric are not mediated images on the popular media, they are things he actually said.
Holy secular heck. So… do the bigots think that Jewish people who convert to Christianity get straight hair through the healing power of Jesus? I can’t even.
Well yes, of course. Maybe it’s because it was never a part of the antisemitism I was around and familiar with (which certainly did exist here in the south), but this imagining Jewish people, not just as religious others, but as some sort of demons with physical manifestations of that… I’ve heard some stupid shit, but that’s just a whole different level of what the fuckery antisemitism that I’ve never heard or seen, except in history books.
I’ve lived in big cities and in the middle of nowhere, and it really is an eye opening experience
Wiki says Lawrenceville? (I know nothing about Illinois, sound like the sort of place you mention?)
I think you’re expecting too much logical consistency out of them. 
But, then again, I have very low expectations out of their intellects (for reasons that, I think, are fairly obvious).
I have an associate, down in Texas, I think Dallas. She had a baby boy, and invited some of her non-Jewish coworkers over for the bris. At the brunch, everyone is chatting and admiring the baby. As people passed the baby around to hold him, she noticed that a bunch of her colleagues were surreptitiously patting the baby on the head.
They were checking for the horns.
Now, admittedly, at least a few of them didn’t believe that bit of libel themselves and claimed that they were simply gathering first-hand knowledge to dismiss the claim… but… yeah.
This shit is everywhere in America.
And people wonder why I don’t trust Christians by virtue of their Christianity.
I honestly thought Sacha Baron Cohen made that part up for Borat.
The places I mentioned were central but in the southern part of the state. Lawrenceville is in a line with them but on the Indiana border. I got the town wrong, but the principle still applies
