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[0bleak]

generally (but just generally), how people are in the U.S. (and I guess this also goes for some other countries, too) has a lot to do with population density
the more dense the population, the less politically/socially conservative (generally)
you've also got cities in Texas like Austin which are like the Texan version of s.f./seattle/portland

 

[Mr. Tea]

@yyaldrin
For example, even in some of the most conservative cities (by percentage), you're still going to have a significant percentage of people that are moderately left to extreme left.
To say what I mean using some rigid stereotypes:
For every person or three that dresses conservatively and is a bible-thumpin' jesus freak that wears a cowboy hat, loves guns, drives a truck, likes shopping at wal-mart, etc.
you're also going to have your eco-conscious, small car owner, hip clothes/hair person that shops "organic" that likes to party and is a member or ally of the lgtbq+ community.

You're still talking about cities, though. Do progressive/green/queer/queer-friendly people still exist in really rural areas?

I mean, isn't it the case that the ideological centre of gravity shifts ever further to the right, the further you go into farming territory/wilderness?

 

[0bleak]

That's kind of what I was trying to cover in my population density talk in the last post.

and, yeah, there are some outright weirdos every now in then even in really rural areas (might have even been the reason they went "rural"/feral)

 

[0bleak]

In the past, I dated a couple of people that lived out, like way out in the "country" (like an hour or 45 min. drive outside of the city) and would come further into the "metro area" for the obvious reasons. One of them lived in a literal (small) farm.
i kind of laugh when i see something like this for Greenville, SC because some of that is "country" AF and it takes grabbing up all sorts of little cities and towns and rural areas to get to numbers like that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_of_South_Carolina

 

[0bleak]

and a couple of the "suburbs" I grew up in Lexington and the Greenville "metro" (lol) area - they might as well have been rural even though they were technically part of the city/a city
get in car and spend a couple of minutes getting out of the suburb and drive drive drive for the next 10 or 15 minutes through what looks "country" AF before you even get to something like a grocery store or gas station, and then drive drive 5 or 10 minutes more until you get into something that starts to look like something approximating the outskirts of a city
a lot of that stuff got a lot more "developed" over the decades now, however