2016 Postmortem

I've lived in, or very near the boonies my whole life. I've never lived in a big city.

Right now, I live on the edge of a small city, and can see large cornfields from my house.

The people in the "boonies" where I live are extremely socially conservative. Many use the terms "fag" and "queer" openly. They refer to the black people on the south side of my small city as the n word, or occasionally "mud people." A few are poor. A few are rich. Most are in the upper end of middle class, driving massive brodozers. The only thing most of them care for environment about is the next harvest, (even if the live in the small towns... When the richer farmers do well, they do well). They think global warming is a hoax. Most of them heavily deride people on welfqre, but many of them are pulling in 5-figure crop subsidies. They are upset that their "religious freedom" is being attacked, but if you object to an explicitly Christian prayer at the school, you can get the fuck out.

That's what I know about "rural" America.