Why are rural people conservatives?

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Oh okay. Well when it comes to rural people being more conversative, how are they exactly? I mean I don't know if I see too much difference, unless I am wrong?

It seems to me you have both types of people in both rural and urban areas from my observations, but I'm not American either.

I am from a more rural area, and a friend of mine is well. He says that he is depressed here, and wants to move to a big city, because he feels they will be more tolerable of things. But he is white, and I tell him big cities seem to not less tolerant of white people, and that if he moves things will likely be worse, if he is bothered here. Am I likely right on that though? Of course he is free to move and see, but I wonder if that's correct.

Too many people always think that the grass is greener on the other side.

In my case, I often daydream about living elsewhere (such as in Cloudcroft, New Mexico where it is cooler in the summer or El Paso, Texas where it tends to stay warmer year round), but I also know that in my community I am respected and treated quite well. I doubt that I could ever move away again (like I did when I went away to college). My area, as imperfect as it is, is where I am most comfortable.

When I did live in the Houston area, I felt hardly any intolerance of me because I was white. There was one restaurant that I used to go into in Houston that I would drive around the block once or twice before deciding whether to stop and go in. In all the times I was there, I never saw anyone else besides me who wasn't black. On the other hand, nobody hassled me about it, either. One day one well dressed and well spoken black guy did walk up and ask what I was doing there. We had a short and pleasant conversation and he went back to his table and I continued my meal in peace.

That was the only restaurant I knew of in Houston that served fried ham sandwiches. They weren't great fried ham sandwiches by any means, but they were quite affordable.

I did feel some intolerance at a Chinese restaurant in Houston once, but that was from some yankee in town for business who objected to me peacefully reading a magazine at my table while I ate. I just ignored the twit.

Also, I've felt intolerance based on not being wealthy. One day went to a nearby jewelry store in Houston to buy a watch band because the band on my watch broke. After parking my old farm pickup in front of the jewelry store, I approached the door but an employee walked to the door and locked it.

There was a story about a couple of white guys in Dallas going into a noted soul food restaurant. The owner took one look at them and said "What are you white boys doing here?" The owner was a big fan of jazz music and had pictures of famous jazz musicians lining the walls and always had jazz for background music. One of the two white guys was a big fan of jazz music, too. He went along to every photograph and correctly identified every one of the musicians. After he finished, the owner smiled and asked "And what can I get for you two fine gentlemen today?"

Lack of diversity, lower education levels, lower income/not well travelled, product of their environment - which is stuck in a time capsule vs the space age progress of large coastal cities.. etc.

All true in my small town I grew up in in Montana. Even poor grammar was common. The ignorance was so strong there. The town I grew up in didn't get electricity until WWII and my grandfather grew up with wagons even though he was born in 1917. His family was poor so they didn't have a car. He also grew up without electricity. My mom's parents on the other hand lived more modern and so did my dad's mom. My grandpa didn't start to live modern until he was an adult and worked for the gov.

When I moved out of there in 2007, I was introduced to redboxes. Montana did not have any where I lived. Now they have them and they are now finally getting high speed internet now. They were installing it when I was last there visiting this summer. Country towns are always behind. Rural towns that is.

No one is against white people, there is no hate on whites. The minorities are not hating on white people for being white.

It's pretty hard to hate on white people when the majority of us are white. That is why we tend to hold more power over minorities.

I really wish the right would stop inferring the left hates whites (so stupid). In Australia its been conservative/right parties who have facilitated the sale of many of our assets to foreigners.

I wonder what they think of the left who are white? Do they think we hate ourselves?

We want to destroy the race or similar crap . They play this game where they claim its the left who bring up race and perpetuate race where all they want is for people not consider race. But then they turn around and say lefties hate white people....um...hello, I thought race doesn't matter??

The far left want to deconstruct the whole concept of race. The far right make it a pillar of their entire existence. If politics is on a spectrum then guess who is most vested in race.

I have heard of another. "They are trying to erase white people and make us go extinct" "The white race will die off if everyone kept mixing their race."

I don't see the problem with the white race getting less common and the minority race growing when we keep doing inclusions. I am also not afraid of the white race going extinct, there are too many of us and too little people of color so there wouldn't be enough of them to mix our race with theirs. Do any of them ever show concern about Americans having kids with Australians or Canadians or Russians? Aren't they concerned about the full American nationality dying out as well?

Wut?

What gives you that idea??

I don’t think I’d worry about moving anywhere in Canada as a white person UNLESS I was a total racist a**hole of a white person.

Big cities ARE more tolerant of non-white people, but they are Not less tolerant of white people. Wtf?

That's probably the greatest myth of all. People of European origin control 70% of the worlds land. They predominantly marry/have children with other people of European origin. These two factors will remain for multiple generations.

If they want to blame anyone for the future extinction of the mythical "white race" they (the racists) need to look at their own fugly faces in the mirror. The number one reason white people are not growing as fast as other populations is because people of European origin are choosing to have less children. The biggest irony is self-indulgence and lifestyle will result in a future mixed race world faster than mixed marriages.

It just seems that way, that in the more urban cities, more white people are getting the shaft in the media, compared to rural areas. But I am only going by it from what I can gather from the media perspective, since I do not live in those cities.

But if white people are treated the same there, then what does my friend hope to gain, if it's the same, and not better?

In what universe do you live? for example have a look at IDMB top news programs, 100 top TV shows, top movies and actors/actresses. White people watch themselves in the media. The majority of white people don't spend their money to watch programs with predominantly black or Asian cast unless it's a huge/big budget with CGI and special effects.

There's a reason fans protest when a black actor is cast in science fiction, dramas or enchanted type movies (the worst crap is vampire movies, apparently in the vampire universe black and Asian people don't exist).

Oh okay, I guess I don't watch enough movies and TV and didn't know that people protest against those things a lot.

it's ok, just their arguments are all fluff