If The Dems Made A Concerted Effort To Appeal To Rural Voters What Would You Recommend They Do?....

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324. I really do think

there is a complete lack of understanding of why most people live rural. I don't think many or even most of us are inherently more conservative at all. I definitely don't think we are people who need or want social or cultural rules that are well-defined and rather rigid. We just prefer nature to concrete; wide open spaces to confined spaces; peace and quiet to the hustle and bustle.

If Democrats and liberals want to make inroads then quit telling us who and what we are. Quit telling us what we need or want. Quit speculating and ask US. Quit treating us like nothing but potential votes and instead like humans whose choices about where we live are every bit as valid as yours and other urban dwellers. And if you can't engage us in conversation and listen, I suspect there are many, like myself, who would just prefer you left us alone.

How would you like it if I speculated that most urban dwellers were people who couldn't stand to be alone because they lacked something inside themselves? That they were so simple minded they couldn't live apart from the clan? That they are incapable of planning ahead and thus need everything readily available? That they are so shallow that they have to be entertained by restaurants, bars and movie theaters just down the street. Wouldn't you be insulted? I really, really don't understand the appeal of the city to people. I don't get it but don't sit around speculating about why. I'm glad because if everyone wanted to live rural there would be no more rural. It's like picking apart the reason some people prefer blue and some green.

Believe it or not, most rural dwellers aren't toothless and sitting on the porch playing dueling banjos.