Most rural poor in the US aren’t farmers though. For them a lot of the value of rural living comes from the lifestyle, they like having a piece of property to drive ATVs and shoot beer cans on.
And mind you I’m not saying that in a judgmental way, I loved that shit back when I’d visit my family in western VA. But I think it does feed into the culture war, they see liberals calling for bigger and denser cities as an attack on their lifestyle.
Most rural poor in the US aren’t farmers though. For them a lot of the value of rural living comes from the lifestyle, they like having a piece of property to drive ATVs and shoot beer cans on.
And mind you I’m not saying that in a judgmental way, I loved that shit back when I’d visit my family in western VA. But I think it does feed into the culture war, they see liberals calling for bigger and denser cities as an attack on their lifestyle.
Yeah, that’s part of what I meant by nuance being outright impossible on twitter.