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Originally Posted by crockett
Also, I travel here in the states a lot. What I see is unusually small town America is very consertive because they really have no other experance. You drive across A lot of these Westren states and you don't get any normal radio stations but there is always a right wing station talking about how bad Obama is. It never fails..
These people live in a bubble with very little outside influence. You also see a lot of white people having nicer houses because they have the better jobs, then you see the Hispanics and in some places Indians whom are very poor.
These consertives from the west just assume that all minorities are like this everywhere else as that's the only thing they know.
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Having grown up in rural areas, and still residing in a rural area, the main reason that people from small towns are conservative is that they grow up relying less on the government. So they see any left wing government with their hand out as a cash grab to subsidize urban population. There's less need for federal social programs, because things are done more at a local level. It has nothing to do with access to media. (yes I live in Canada, but it's an issue that transcends borders.)