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In reply to the discussion: What do Dems need to do to win the rural vote [View all]LeftInTX
(25,141 posts)Yeah, state fairs and farm shows are no brainers, especially for local candidates....
I live in San Antonio and 4H is a thing, even here. My son won an award for his drip irrigation one year.
I think most counties in the US have ag extensions. I believe Abraham Lincoln established land-grant universities and those programs filter locally. In urban areas those programs include nutrition programs and master gardener programs. (Master gardeners tend to be very republican). However, we can still work with these agencies/agents in urban areas because those agents carry a message to their rural counter-parts. We have a Dem county commissioner who has donated land to Texas Ag Extension (Texas A&M - Texas Dept of Ag -county partnership) for an urban farm. The Aggies do not dare bad mouth him..LOL