Tuesday, October 21, 2008
So Sarah Palin thinks small-town Americans are "Pro-American" and another McCain surrogate says that people who live in rural Virginia are "real Americans."
This idealization of small town America is perplexing to me since I grew up in rural northern Michigan and have lived in small towns in North Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming. In all of these places the jobs suck, the schools suck, there is nothing to do but do drugs and fuck, parents hate higher education because that means their children move away to those awful big cities to look for jobs that actually provide insurance and vacation days. If small town America is so real and fabulous, why are half the towns in North Dakota and Nebraska emptying out and turning into ghost towns?
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This idealization of small town America is perplexing to me since I grew up in rural northern Michigan and have lived in small towns in North Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming. In all of these places the jobs suck, the schools suck, there is nothing to do but do drugs and fuck, parents hate higher education because that means their children move away to those awful big cities to look for jobs that actually provide insurance and vacation days. If small town America is so real and fabulous, why are half the towns in North Dakota and Nebraska emptying out and turning into ghost towns?
