Comment on "[We] will win this election and make the Republicans like it!" - Harry S. Truman
NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net 1 week agoAmazing to think of a world where rural people are progressive!
Comment on "[We] will win this election and make the Republicans like it!" - Harry S. Truman
NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net 1 week agoAmazing to think of a world where rural people are progressive!
PugJesus@piefed.social 1 week ago
As I always recount, as recently as the 1990s, West Virginia, of all places, was a deep blue state.
Rural folk are not always the most… up-to-date… on cultural trends and developments. But what caused the corrosive values we see from rural areas in the US nowadays is largely the result of mass media pushed on areas that don’t have a whole lot in the way of alternate sources of information about the goings-on of the wider world. It’s become a self-feeding cycle.
… and the politicization of evangelical Christianity, dating to fucking televangelists in the 80s.
NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Yes , but also here in the Netherlands farmers are often radically right-wing.