Rural living.

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223. Actually, I didn't acknowledge that "point"

because I don't know that it's true; you saying it doesn't make it so. In the real rural world, I haven't heard sneering at "city folk" from my neighbors. I have heard the opposite, repeatedly, right here at DU. Your responses are the perfect example. You are doing what you accuse others of doing.

I HAVE lived in cities as well as in rural areas. People in cities will help each other; I'm not going to paint anyone with a broad brush, unlike so many here. It tends to be more organized. My experience in cities is that people are in a bigger hurry, and make less eye contact with strangers, let alone have actual conversations. But that's just my experience. It would be foolish to suggest that it's always that way, and I didn't. I simply pointed out a single after-work errand in my town, and I did so with accuracy.

I can't speak for Trump voters, since I'm not one of them, and I won't stereotype them into one monolithic lump like you are doing.

I will say that I believe that many of the votes for Trump weren't about Trump, but about the demand for change that the Democrats turned their backs on. That's what some of the Trump voters I've talked to have said to me, anyway. Whether they are outliers or not, they ARE real people having a real conversation. I truly wish Democrats would have offered the change people were craving; if we had, we wouldn't have gotten Trump. But that's water under the bridge.

I also really understand why so many Democrats, and so many DUers, need to find a scapegoat; online politics are about ganging up to find an enemy to hate, not to reach out and try to end hate. The more you want to fight about it, the more you make that point for me. Either you want to hate and blame, or you want to move forward to address the issues; the latter requires reaching the people who didn't vote the way you did, not attacking them.

No matter what, though, broadbrush stereotyping is a kind of bigotry, and it happens here at DU on a regular basis, often from the same people who attack others for bigotry.