Urban vs Rural - 2

[timelets]

We [conservatives] prefer the “Real America,” which apparently means depopulated rural areas and moribund Rust Belt mill towns, outer-ring suburbs, declining mega-churches, Idaho, Oklahoma, Utah, Wyoming. We aren’t even very sure about Montana these days. If by the “Real America” you mean the parts of the country where the people and the capital are, we are not quite so sure of ourselves.

Americans, in particular the younger ones, don’t seem to be getting the message. The best and brightest of them keep going to the colleges we hate, studying for the professions we hold in suspicion or contempt, and dreaming of moving to cities that we’d be content to see washed into the sea.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/conservative-message-to-residents-metropolitan-areas-must-improve/

And here's some data to back it up.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-is-really-popular-in-rural-areas-other-places-not-so-much/

Comments

[peristaltor]

To me, it points to something most pundits are afraid of: the rise of corporate capture of media. The rural places noted are awash in right-wing radio (especially on the AM band, which is seen as moribund by most).

Though there is, of course, such radio in less conservative areas, those areas are also places where people can talk to each other, thus providing a counter-balance to the paid placement of political concepts.

Since pundits are mostly paid for by the same forces that plant this bastion of conservative/corporatist thought, they are less likely to call it out.