6 Big Differences That Turn City Dwellers Into Liberals

By Loey Nunning Loey Nunning, February 18, 2017

6 Big Differences That Turn City Dwellers Into Liberals

The last election wasn't the first time people living in the country and city had different ideas about how to steer this monster truck we call America. The liberal-city / conservative-country divide has been around since the framing of the constitution when farmers were the elites. Especially in modern times this is partly a result of self-sorting. But I can tell you as someone who grew up in conservative suburban and rural towns and moved to a city in search of a job that didn't require a name tag or jaunty paper hat, if you aren't a liberal when you get to the big city, you might be before the year is up. And the reasons are way weirder than you think ...

(more here: http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-ways-big-cities-turn-you-liberal-converts-perspective)