It's like a crowded lifeboat,
Everything in the boat becomes community property, people are forced to share and take turns, and to submit every action to the rule of the captain.
To say that people in a life boat tend to act like commies because they are wrong-headed, is silly.
Same with densely populated cities.
And that is why population growth from immigration threatens America's freedom: the more people, the less freedom.
Flyover country lives in the real world...survival is key. We don't have many good paying jobs, high hopes..we deal with reality.
Urbanites tend to live in a very Plastic world..all is show and energy, most of it slight of hand.
See tagline...
Suburban = cooperation.
Rural = independence.
i think it has to do with the concentration of universites in the cities.
I theorize that it has something to do with herd mentality, but I'm just a stupid hick, so what do I know. :P
tell you sons to crack open a few basic psychology texts and look for classic experiments
on what happens when population density is increased in rat colonies...
Then you will understand high-population density centers and the crazy things
done there by the largely DemocRATic populace...
One word.
Main Entry: en·ti·tle·ment
Pronunciation: -'tI-t&l-m&nt
Function: noun
1 a : the state or condition of being entitled : RIGHT b : a right to benefits specified especially by law or contract
2 : a government program providing benefits to members of a specified group; also : funds supporting or distributed by such a program
Rural areas tend to be people who are more independant and do not want to see the federal government taking their taxes and using it for entitlement programs. Rural people tend to have a higher regard for private property rights and are insulted by much of the environmentalism blather which comes from much in the media and city living folks who have no clue. Rural people tend to be more religious and thus place an emphasis on honest politicians who they can trust.
Inner City people I believe vote bases on their pocketbook since many of them are on welfare and want a larger government providing programs and money for them. Inner city people do not understand economics in my opinion and the arguments of the Dems make sense to them even though the Dem policies are actually worse economically for everyone. I think it comes down to people who are independant minded vs. dependant people.
Areas with denser populations tend to need more direct governmental support in terms of service---and employment. Areas with denser populations also tend to attract the most needy people, and needy people vote for those who support them---liberals. Areas with denser populations are often home to institutes of higher education and those who work in higher education, and academia skews liberal. Areas with denser populations attract those who fancy themselves cosmopolitan and erudite---often elements of a liberal mindset.
Its very simple for me
Urban areas include those that have gotten used to and expect handouts from the govt. Democrats are the party of handouts and what can the govt. do for me crowd.
Rural areas are more or less people who are more self -reliant and do not depend on or do not expect the govt. to provide them freebies.
This is where the republicans need to make in-roads with minorities. The govt is not the nipple and that they are empowered to achieve their potential w/o blaming others for their failure.
Let's see, the big city; swimming pools, movie stars, gays, the arts, big universities and their associated staff as well as voting age student bodies, sex shops, degenerates, homeless shelters and the people who enable them through misguided sympathy, government services centers (welfare offices), public transportation, free clinics, big media,...Not sure if I hit them all but that's some of the mitigating factors that strengthen the cancer upon which this nation bleeds its wealth and shapes the opinions and motivations of the liberal.
That's Why RUDY G could be a great national contender he won Twice in NYC ,Running against Dinkins,one of the worst mayors ever
The answer is actually multi-dimensional. For starters, it is a well known fact among linguists that small populations tend to preserve features of earlier language and dialect forms than larger population areas do. Perhaps a better word is "conserve" rather than "preserve." This feature, I believe, translates over to other areas of human life, though, including religious beliefs, moral values, and culture. Smaller communities tend to conserve earlier standards better than larger ones do.
Now, as many people realize as they get older, "newer" does not necessarily mean "better." In fact, the older I get, the more I believe that fewer and fewer "new" ways of doing things are better than the old ways.
And then there is the matter of self-reliance. Individualism. People who live in small, rural communities, don't have the "benefits" of the interconnectedness of large urban communities, where most everybody within these urban environments has their own special niche in the big machine. In the rural setting, most folks have to know quite a bit about just about everything. Ask a farmer, for example. You'll find out the average farmer not only knows a lot about crops, breeds, and how to grow and raise them, but he or she also knows how to repair most of the equipment that they use, fix the house or barn and the truck, and just about everything else. This is common in rural areas. These folks are independent and self reliant. They think for themselves. They don't like or trust big government, thus by definition, they are conservative, whether republican or democrat.
Just about the only "specialists" I have found in rural communities, except doctors and lawyers, are transplants from the big city who decide to "get away from it all" so they can express their "inner artist" as they attempt to be creative in an alien environment. Usually doesn't work until a whole bunch of other city dwellers move out into the sticks to join them, bringing all their wacked out city values and liberalism with them. But then it isn't rural anymore. Often these areas become gentrified, as the urbanites buy up properties, driving up real estate values (and taxes) for the locals, who as a result, resent the urbanites all the more. And adhere even more strongly to their conservative values.
Well, that's the way I see it.
One significant factor is that cities are largely controlled by old time corrupt Dem machines combined with the economic failure of said machine. Cities that have had Republican administrations fare better economically. So, the residents are kept in dependancy (some would say slavery).
More union workers. Higher concentration of poor living on the dole...
In cities, people use the anonymity of numbers to screw people in business, and (for some) lying is a way of life. Not much to compare to.
In rural areas, the basics are never taken for granted, and are commonly self-provided, (well water, septic system, garden, dig out your own road when it snows, have a generator if the power goes out, etc.). This makes for an ability to identify critical issues immediately, and let the rest slide until critical items are taken care of. Common sense must prevail, in some areas your life depends on it.
Urban folks tend to have a different set of priorities and ideas about what is necessary.
These seminal differences make for a different set of priorities.
Also, when, at times, it is you and God who get your butt out of the snowdrift at 30 below, you feel a little closer to the Creator, and tend to listen a trifle better to His standards.
Not so amidst the towers of babble.