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El Pinko (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-19-08 01:28 PM
Original message
I'm sick and tired of people being accused of being "out of touch with small-town America"
Advertisements [?]Edited on Sat Apr-19-08 01:37 PM by El Pinko
I'm sick and tired of people being accused of being out of touch with small-town America or rural America. Guess what? Most Americans don't live in small towns anymore.
I don't give a crap about being in touch with small town America per se. I'm all for the government making sure that their economic needs are met and all, but honestly, I couldn't give a rat's ass about
small-town values or what small-town voters think. I spent every damn summer of my youth in a small town of 5000 in N. Texas - a place that made El Paso look like San Francisco.
There were some notable exceptions, but mostly what I heard from everyone there was ignorant, racist, backward, bible-beating nonsense.
"We don't go down t'Dallas anymore because the nigras/Mexicans have taken over."
"The Mexicans are takin' over the whole country. Pretty soon they'll move into Bowie - and once they're here, you know the nigras won't be far behind."
"Catholics aren't Christians."
"The nigras were better off under the confederacy. They gave them food and shelter and they had no worries at all. Now look at'em, living in a bunch of housing projects on welfare and killing each other."
"You don't know what it was like after the Civil War ended. The Yankees let the nigras run wild and they were raping the young girls all over the place. They NEEDED the Klan to keep the peace."
When I was a little girl, a bunch of gypsies came through town, and they did nothing but steal and.. (etc. etc.)
This is all the kind of crap I heard CONSTANTLY from my family and neighbors - in the 1980s. These people were so delighted in 1985 or so when the Wal-Mart opened,
and none of them seemed to make a connection when the downtown was all boarded up within 3 years. Now there is a crystal meth epidemic there. Real Norman Rockwell.
I am so SICK of politicians pandering to small-town idiocy. (and yes, I KNOW there are some good intelligent people in small towns!)
If there's a problem, it's not that politicians or pundits or city people are out of touch with small-town America.
It's that much of small-town America is out of touch with reality, and out of touch with the way the vast MAJORITY of Americans, who live in cities and the suburbs that ring them, think.
And saying so is not "elitist". I didn't even make $30K last year. I didn't come from money and I don't swill "brie and chablis". I'm just a regular guy trying to raise his kids on chump change.
And this is not an attack or a defense of Hillary or Obama - I have no problem with either of them. It's just this media meme that all liberals are these toffee-nosed snobs who look down their noses at the wonderful apple-pie country folks.
It's total BS.
Nice name El Finko
I grew up in one of those small Texas towns and now I live in the
Big City, and if I could afford it I would move back home in a heartbeat.
Check out the thread there is a lot hating going on there. :bird:
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mainer (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-19-08 01:40 PM
Response to Original message
8. Why do we cater to them? (and I live in a small town)
No one wants to offend "small-town Americans." But no one seems to mind offending San Franciscans or New Yorkers.
Well honestly, is there anything that doesn't offend San Franciscans or New Yorkers, and further, does anybody really give a shit? :clueless:
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bounce, 2, 3, 4
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I grew up in one of those small Texas towns and now I live in the
Big City, and if I could afford it I would move back home in a heartbeat.
I was born in L.A., and lived in Tokyo for a few years. Small town USA is the best place to live.
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I grew up in a small town and I'd love it if the chance came up to move back there.
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IF it wasn't for small town america the larger cities would die out from lack of economic use of their companies and stores.
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I don't give a crap about small town America
Fixed
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IF it wasn't for small town america the larger cities would die out from lack of economic use of their companies and stores.
Not only that, just who feeds the cities, anyway? :thatsright:
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I don't give a crap about being in touch with small town America per se. I'm all for the government making sure that their economic needs are met and all, but honestly, I couldn't give a rat's ass about small-town values or what small-town voters think.
You should because the area between San Fudgepackasicko and Taxachusetts is chock full of small towns, small-town values and small-town voters.
Now sit on this. :bird:
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IF it wasn't for small town america the larger cities would die out from lack of economic use of their companies and stores.
Not only that, just who feeds the cities, anyway? :thatsright:
The Automat, of course!
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a46/maplebob/automat2.jpg)
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IF it wasn't for small town america the larger cities would die out from lack of economic use of their companies and stores.
Not only that, just who feeds the cities, anyway? :thatsright:
The Automat, of course!
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a46/maplebob/automat2.jpg)
Oh Man, The Automat in DUmmieland has pies ?
I like pies.
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IF it wasn't for small town america the larger cities would die out from lack of economic use of their companies and stores.
Not only that, just who feeds the cities, anyway? :thatsright:
The Automat, of course!
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a46/maplebob/automat2.jpg)
Oh Man, The Automat in DUmmieland has pies ?
I like pies.
It has everything! Not just pies but ice cream. Turkey dinners! Beef Stroganoff (I'm not too big a fan of beef Stroganoff, to me it seems just like meat and noodles --Meatwad)! Chicken Pot Pies! And it's all free because the Automat works on Magic!!!!! That's why they call it an Automat. Beneath the customer area are vast networks of underground machines that mine deep into the earth and change things into food. No one is quite sure how it works. It even makes milk! Although sometimes the milk comes out pizzled. It's just the price one has to pay to be rid of small town America.
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I don't come from a small town, but they are cool to visit and see. Sounds like small towns did something bad to him.
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Oh my.
El Pinko (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-19-08 01:35 PM
Response to Reply #1
3. It's not that I don't have *some* affection for small towns or their people.
It's just so lopsided. Why are country people presented as these all-American paragons of virtue and city people as insensitive out-of-touch boors?
Just tired of it.
Fredda Weinberg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-19-08 01:40 PM
Response to Reply #3
9. Because they demonstrate more manners than you
This is why the Fredda non-primitive, the nemesis of the cali primitive, was promoted to a non-primitive some time ago.
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I don't come from a small town, but they are cool to visit and see. Sounds like small towns did something bad to him.
This reminds me of something that happened shortly before I moved up here, from Omaha.
There was a guy, a Democrat and a liberal, and maybe even a primitive, who came here from Chicago, to spend some time with his trust-fund money.
He was up here for about two years, and then left in a huff, for some place down in Texas.
Down in Texas right now, he's ranting and raving about how people up here are hostile to gays, which mystifies many who've heard of it; while he was here, no one had the slightest idea he's gay.
It is true, however, that the town was not exactly warm towards him.
The town sort of didn't care much for him because he tried to cheat people.
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This reminds me of something that happened shortly before I moved up here, from Omaha.
There was a guy, a Democrat and a liberal, and maybe even a primitive, who came here from Chicago, to spend some time with his trust-fund money.
He was up here for about two years, and then left in a huff, for some place down in Texas.
Down in Texas right now, he's ranting and raving about how people up here are hostile to gays, which mystifies many who've heard of it; while he was here, no one had the slightest idea he's gay.
It is true, however, that the town was not exactly warm towards him.
The town sort of didn't care much for him because he tried to cheat people.
If the tried to cheat people, than he got what he deserved.
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I don't come from a small town, but they are cool to visit and see. Sounds like small towns did something bad to him.
This reminds me of something that happened shortly before I moved up here, from Omaha.
There was a guy, a Democrat and a liberal, and maybe even a primitive, who came here from Chicago, to spend some time with his trust-fund money.
He was up here for about two years, and then left in a huff, for some place down in Texas.
Down in Texas right now, he's ranting and raving about how people up here are hostile to gays, which mystifies many who've heard of it; while he was here, no one had the slightest idea he's gay.
It is true, however, that the town was not exactly warm towards him.
The town sort of didn't care much for him because he tried to cheat people.
That does seem to be a trend with rich Dems doesn't it?
Cindie