Why ‘White Rural Rage’ Is a Threat to American Democracy

Bucks County Beacon ^ | April 8, 2024 | Thomas F. Schaller, University of Maryland

[Bishop_Malachi]

Rural white voters have long enjoyed outsize power in American politics. They have inflated voting power in the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House and the Electoral College.

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How do they have “inflated” voting power in Electoral College? Are they somehow bending the rules? On the other hand, how is it that relatively small numbers of urban areas are increasingly determining elections for the whole nation?

[Svartalfiar]

And in rural areas, fewer than half the people said white people have advantages Black people do not, approve of the legalization of same-sex marriage, and say immigrants make American society stronger.

And how is this 'xenophobia'?

What major advantages does a white person have over a black, just because of their skin color? Have you tried being a young white male attempting to pay for college?!

Yea, I but rural people are more likely to support proper marriage, cause they know what works on a farm to make more animals. And guess what? Humans make babies the same way!

In what way do [[legal!]] immigrants make us stronger? Sure there might be an Einstein or Szilard in the bunches, but most of them are no better or worse than the rest of us. And once you include illegal aliens in the group, it's a no-brainer that all these foreigners (as a whole) do not make us stronger...

[SisterK]

It is their intention to destroy America in the tragically mistaken belief that they will be able rule over the warring tribes.

that's why they are called Useful Idiots

[Col Freeper]

["Thomas F. Schaller is Professor of Political Science at University of Maryland, Baltimore County."]

Thomas and His cohorts have always had a "Unique" view of the World.

[Elsie]

Why ‘White Rural Rage’ Is a Threat to American Democracy

SpelChunk substituted Democracy for Leftist Aggresive Policies again.

I'm beginning to get suspious!

[NorthMountain]

Thomas and His cohorts have always had a "Unique" view of the World.

That view of the world is, unfortunately, quite common.

[Jamestown1630]

I don’t care about that, as they say these days, ‘performative’ stuff.

I just think the basic message of it is absolute nonsense.

[Bikkuri]

I didn’t get past the first sentence.. :P

[Nervous Tick]

I respectfully disagree, you progressive academic bitches -- it's not rage. It's righteous wrath -- and determination. Be safe out there, 'mkay?

[Nervous Tick]

>> The FBI is already monitoring registered Republicans and people with American flags in front of their homes.

My Trump 2020 sign has been perma-screwed to my fence for almost four years. I speak regularly against “library materials” at my local school board meetings. And... (cover your kids’ ears)... I buy BIBLES!!! And Christian books. Probably 50 or so in the last year alone. Mostly to give away... so I’m not only extremist, I’m spreading the subversive ideas around!

You probably should break off all contact with me for your own safety. ;-)

[frank ballenger]

I had suspicions about you being a troublemaker. 😉

[Silentgypsy]

...villainizing a group of people who are already disproportionately shut out from science, higher education, and similar opportunities.

Lol! I live in a rural community and my neighbors have degrees in agriculture, agronomics, chemistry, biology and business. Some people have funny ideas about the farming community.

[Maris Crane]

Why ‘White Rural Rage’ Is a Threat to American Democracy

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HOW,,,exactly???????

[griffin]

Baseball bats and dark parking lots.

[DoughtyOne]

As opposed to tens of millions of Leftist who tear up our
nation’s cities and businesses, at will?

Yeah, what a dumb ass theory.

[1756-L85E]

And note that in the link, it states that some 35% of “rural” (which they admit they can’t define) residents believe violence against the govt may be necessary soon while suburban & urban residents clock in at 20-25%. Isn’t this to be expected? Instead of asking why increasing percentages of residents whether rural, suburban, or urban trust the government less, they fix all the blame on the kulaks, clearly those rurals are a “threat to democracy”
Utter tripe.

[Candor7]

Some people have funny ideas about the farming community.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Likewise, I live in such a rural community.These are Marxists who do not educate, they indoctrinate. To indoctrinate they play off stereotypes they have worked so hard to establish for years.The purposefully divide Americans from each other, hoping that the Union will not remain strong.They do the same with race.

So what if rural America used a stereotype of a smooth talking city slicker walking into our local general store who tries to debauch a fifteen year old girl because he is urbanely sexually liberated . Then lets assign that stereotype to everyone from the city who comes out to a rural area, as sodomites who destroy any thing righteous, pure or Godly. And then write a book about that and teach an indoctrination course at university about that.I reckon that would be tit for tat.

I reckon I have my guns a lot more accessible than they do. And there is the rub.

People like Thomas F. Schaller know we have no hesitation to employ the bibles and guns to which we cling WITHOUT BITTERNESS. That bothers the living hell right out of them.

And whats more , we are closely related to the founding principles of our nation , while men and women like are not. We rural folk have very similar views have been established , tried and true over 23 generations, the Marxist crowd does not, and so they are not strong. Our strength in that way bothers the hell out of them too.So they attack us using false stereotypes.

Here is an example of our historical precedent that the left does NOT have and it is also a message to men like Thomas F. Schaller:

Samual Adams,from Speech at Philadelphia State House , August 1st, 1776

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. “

I have no problem ridiculing such Marxists as I take joy in it.This completely dis-empowers them and renders their academic tripe ineffective.

[Elsie]

... I’m not only extremist, I’m spreading the subversive ideas around!

[Theodore R.]

There must have been millions in the 1950s in the USA who privately admired Stalin and his ideas. Now there are tens of millions that do. So many Americans have gone full communist even if they don’t understand what they have done.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

I’m more concerned about the Black Urban Rage myself...

The author is not going to consider the possibility that he is lying by omission. "White rural rage" is clearly much worse.