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Cosmocat

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11. THIS is the heart of it

Reply to Johnny2X2X (Reply #7)

Mon Mar 9, 2026, 04:39 PM

20 hrs ago

What this person is saying it true, but it being true does not make it the reason people vote R in rural areas.

The core of it is what you explain.

They just are insecure, bored and isolated and succumb to pettiness and small mindedness.

They shit talk and mind the business of each other when they not around each other, and their primary rally point is the evil liberal boogyman.

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"The real reason the rural US is so red" [View all] Collimator 23 hrs ago OP

I find this to be true in the rural farm communities I have lived in. SamKnause 22 hrs ago #1

There are also lots of churches looking at people cachukis 22 hrs ago #2

Yeah. If you move anywhere in the South, outside of the big cities (and even there, sometimes, maybe), the first thing Aristus 20 hrs ago #6

When my parents moved to the small town they are currently in (and will die in)... progressoid 19 hrs ago #13

Would need to see a lot more data before I would believe this assertion Raven123 20 hrs ago #3

Ya load sixteen tons, and whatya get? Permanut 20 hrs ago #4

This is true, but only to a certain extent indusurb 20 hrs ago #5

Correct Cosmocat 20 hrs ago #9

Yea But modrepub 20 hrs ago #10

Envy Johnny2X2X 20 hrs ago #7

THIS is the heart of it Cosmocat 20 hrs ago #11

Small town gossip Johnny2X2X 19 hrs ago #14

Large majority of Trump supporters in Mi live in urban areas Kaleva 18 hrs ago #22

I've seen this before. She's not quite right. progressoid 20 hrs ago #8

There are other factors, too. wnylib 20 hrs ago #12

The end of the fairness doctrine and Buzz cook 19 hrs ago #15

The entire Texas side of my family is magat. ananda 19 hrs ago #16

It won't load for me senseandsensibility 19 hrs ago #17

Here ya go, senseandsensibility Niagara 18 hrs ago #18

Thanks! senseandsensibility 18 hrs ago #21

My pleasure Niagara 18 hrs ago #23

Why have I never heard this before? It's Yellowstone TV series. lindysalsagal 18 hrs ago #19

Interesting ProfessorGAC 18 hrs ago #20