Posted on 03/10/2019 6:14:04 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal
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And yet I feel a fierce defensiveness for this place. Particularly since the 2016 election, I hear the national media — or even my friends back in Portland — dismiss my rural colleagues, family and neighbors as out of touch, hateful, fearful of immigrants, and doomed to a life of boredom and poverty. But they don’t know my friend Sarah Calhoun, who started a women’s clothing company and a music festival near White Sulphur Springs, Mont. They’ve never been to the country church in Underwood, a few miles east of Fergus Falls, whose congregants are starting conversations about race, gender equity, climate change and more. And they haven’t read the work of Nikiko Masumoto, an artist who is rethinking food systems while working alongside her family on their organic peach farm in rural California.
This is the rural life that I know exists all over the country: It can be stimulating and rewarding, a place for bold creativity. I am more involved in politics, and more outspoken about social and racial justice, economic development and feminism than I ever was in Portland. And incidentally, I have not had much time to garden, go fishing, or learn how to can food.
I worry about the anthropological attention to rural America. It has ranged from exaggerated or even fake “Trump country” exposés, to well-intentioned but out-of-touch efforts to mend the “urban-rural divide,” to patronizing television contests in which viewers vote for the “best small town” in their state.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Screw you, Michelle.
That sure doesn’t sound like my home town.
Cities full of moral decay...nyt writer....Hey let’s befoul the country side too!!!!
Oh, look. A city girl decided to move to the country. And she still has no idea how real America thinks or how the world works.
Perhaps she should take the time to garden, go fishing, or learn to can food. Perhaps if she could stop condescending long enough to actually do something productive, she would start to understand the real America that ignorant city snobs have so much contempt for.
Why do you say that? It’s a good article and she’s basically right. The rural areas are blossoming as the costal cities are drowning in their own liberal policies...and s#it.
Punchline:
A recent Gallup poll found that although most Americans live in cities, if given a choice, they would prefer to live in rural areas. What’s stopping them?
Do people have reading comprehension problems? She move BACK HOME after living in cities and is rediscovering things like you mention all over again.
We are not afraid of immigrants
We object to the government-sponsored invasion of foreigners-The corrupt government.
And they haven’t read the work of Nikiko Masumoto, an artist who is rethinking food systems while working alongside her family on their organic peach farm in rural California."
It's not just that she wants to live in a "rural area," she also is hell bent on turning her new "rural" home into just the kind of enlightened craphole she recently left behind.
People can be irritating.
There are a lot of people in a big city.
That can be a lot of irritation.
So people learn to ignore problems and pretend to be civil.
Isn’t that what Liberals do?
Name the church in Underwood, Minnesota, where they’re having a conversation about race!
These people are nuts.
Well said.
In my little town
I grew up believing
God keeps his eye on us all
And he used to lean upon me
As I pledged allegiance to the wall
Lord I recall my little town
Coming home after school
Riding my bike past the gates of the factories
My mom doing the laundry
Hanging out shirts in the dirty breeze
And after it rains there’s a rainbow
And all of the colors are black
It’s not that the colors aren’t there
It’s just imagination they lack
Everything’s the same back in my little town
I only read the excerpt—I will not give NYT the page views—which referenced her friends back in Portland. Therefore, from the information contained within the excerpt, I conclude that she is from Portland. And her tone shows contempt for rural America in that piece. Even her attempt to show that rural America is as enlightened as the cities reeks of contempt. She comes across as an observer who describes without ever understanding what she sees.
Judging a church by how many Leftist causes it supports is “the broad way” to Hell that Jesus warns Christians about.
Seventeen years ago I moved from NYC to a rural area outside a small town (<8000) in WV. In the last 2-3 years I’ve seen an increasing number of former residents returning. At the same time we’ve suddenly had a “unity parade” and a bill (defeated fortunately) to require some type of “inclusivity” in hiring. Now a 1% “city sales tax” is being pushed. It seems that what I was escaping has found me out.
Seriously considering just sprucing up the place and putting it on the market along with my boat, truck and other earthly posessions and taking my show on the road. The only thing that scares me is health care. I get mine through my retirement package and at 74 it is a priority.
How noble of you! How high-minded!
Or actually, how smug.
Leftists just don't understand that smug is ugly.
I wonder if she has a window box or rooftop "garden"...
Like Charlie Daniels says of farmers (rural folks), "If the man don't work, the people don't eat..."
She and her kind have totally changed my little bit of what was once a nice quiet conservative rural area. I don’t like it here anymore but where’s there to move to that hasn’t been changed.
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