It is hard to understand how all those thousands of hard-working, decent, civilized people were forced to migrate out there, and just a couple of generations later their descendents are, in such large part, socialist, un-American, moonbats. Some impurity in West Coast water, maybe?
I dunno.
There's another mystery here too.
Small underpopulated counties in Nebraska have a disproportionate number of children (born within wedlock, it must be added).
Generally these counties, including the one where I'm at right now, are about 33% children under the age of 18 years.
That's a high percentage, and it kind of makes for a different sort of culture. I get irritated when going to garage sales and somesuch, because usually most of the offerings are children's things. Even the book stores and libraries are more than half, maybe as much as two-thirds, children's books. Movies for children and recreational activities for children strongly predominate.
Which is, all things considered, okay, because we need children, and the more the merrier.
However, in these same counties--and I am describing all counties of the Sandhills of Nebraska--those aged 18-30 and 30-45 are rare, usually 3, 4, 5% of the population.
These of course being people in the prime income-earning group.
Those few aged 18-30 and 30-45 produce all these children, these large families.
And then these kids, upon growing up, leave. Not because they necessarily want to, but because a farm or ranch doesn't require 40-50 hired hands, like they used to.
Contrary to erroneous public perception,
nobody leaves Nebraska because "it's boring" or because "there's nothing to do there." One goes where the jobs are.
All these emigrating Nebraska kids take their salubrious political wisdom into the big blue cities, but thus far haven't had much of an effect of turning these corrupt old places around.
It's very sad, but our numbers are just too small to have much of an impact.