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In reply to the discussion: My Experience in SW Missouri [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)typically are very generous and involved with others, as I suspect those in the OP's town are.
The difference between conservative and more liberal societies tends to be, not in whether people care about others, but who and how large the groups we feel we have a duty of caring for are.
Conservatives tend to identify with smaller groups of peoples they identify with in some ways, but how much they can do for others is typically more generous. Because it literally can be. Neighbors take care of neighbors.
The more liberal, the larger and more diverse the groups tend to be, for some up to everyone on the planet. But how much each person can do for millions and even billions of others is accepted as limited. Our GA neighbors are every bit as prone to condemning liberals as uncaring and selfish hypocrites who don't even know their neighbors' names.
On this topic, I remember a woman explaining to me that here in GA that her volunteer group takes care of people in this town. That was after I commented that their very generous giving to those chosen to be helped (much money and many hours of big-hearted labor) didn't leave anything for others elsewhere who also needed help. So she explained that the people in their communities took care of them. When I mused about when they didn't, she regretted that they didn't, but accepted it as a failure of others to take care of their own.