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'Nobody's more insulting' to rural voters than Republicans: political scientist (www.rawstory.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You could actually talk to them and ask them why they vote the way they do rather than just call them stupid.

You say this like I haven't been talking to these people all of my life.

Especially since you didn't actually engage in the conversation

What?

I'm not saying that rural folks are stupid about everything or that all of them are stupid. Just when it comes to politics and voting, the vast majority of them are. I'm just explaining what my experiences are having spent my entire life around these people. They're my family.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They’re my family.

So your sample size is just your family... and you think you're having a rational conversation that isn't biased as fuck?
Does this statement now make more sense?

Especially since you didn’t actually engage in the conversation, but just wanted to call a particular group of people stupid.

Outside of your family... Can you legitimately say that you see much difference between rural and metro trains of thought? Or do both groups tend to vote based on the issues that they perceive to be important to them? Eg, does the examples I gave above make sense why the different mindsets would cause reasonable people to vote differently based simply on location?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

So your sample size is just your family

I felt like I was being fairly clear by saying that, that I didn't mean just my actual blood relatives, but also friends and community.

Whether intentional or not, that's a strawman.

Can you legitimately say that you see much difference between rural and metro trains of thought?

I've never lived in a large city, so I couldn't speak to that.

In any case, I don't feel like this conversation is terribly productive and probably won't continue.