Rip
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Location: Morrison TN
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Originally posted by truly
Rip, you have a very skewed world view. Or more accurately city view. Actually many many city dwellers hunt. Remember- they are the ones buying a 40 acre plot just to hunt. They can afford a house in town and a 40 just to play on. Your gardening comment completely blew it. There are many urbanites that have very intensive and productive gardens/gardening techniques. This last summer I grew tomatoes, black beans, carrots, potatoes, beets, lettuce, peppers, numerous herbs, eggplant, cucumbers, melons, watercress, celery, onions, strawberries, raspberries, chives, grapes and apples. Urbanites are increasing their own food production as our food supply chain continues in a direction of less and less healthy products.
Somehow you see a city purely as a ghetto scene out of a movie. "survive on the streets with deception, theft and illegal activities"? Seriously? I live in one of the lowest crime rate areas that you can ever find. for miles in any direction there is house after house of hardworking, intelligent, honest, crime free citizens. Yes, there are pockets of crime, just like small towns having meth labs, or pot growing operations out in the country. this does not reflect or impact many of those around it.
But you probably won't be able to understand that if you can't even understand the education gap. In TN there are 11 high schools that have made the TOP 1000 list, as compiled by Newsweek. All 11 are in CITIES. Nashville, Brentwood, Collierville, Franklin, Germantown, Knoxville and Oak Ridge are homes to these top schools.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newswe...gh-schools.html
"This year, our ranking highlights the best 1,000 public high schools in the nation—the ones that have proven to be the most effective in turning out college-ready grads. The list is based on six components provided by school administrators: graduation rate (25 percent), college matriculation rate (25 percent), AP/IB/AICE tests taken per student (25 percent), average SAT/ACT scores (10 percent), average AP/IB/AICE scores (10 percent), and AP courses offered per student(5 percent)."
Go ahead and study the list a bit. Then think about where all of the best colleges and universities are. This isn't to say that all education in the city is great, or that you can't get great education in rural areas, just that most folks who are very focused on education are going to head to the city. I grew up in a small town. We had what was normal for a small town education system. It can't hold a candle to the education that my children will get.
LMBO yeah and my wife grew some tomatoes in a topsy turvey thing. Look I understand that there are some yuppies that are trying to grow "organic" things on their rooftops. The great majority of city folk are not hunting and they are not supporting themselves. Matter of fact most of them would starve to death or freeze to death if dropped out in the woods just a few miles away from the nearest streetlight.
As for your "cities" in Tennessee, you are the one that just doesn't know. Brentwood is not a "city", it is a suburb of Nashville, the rich suburb. Oak Ridge is not what most would call a "city", but it is made up of wealthy people that work at the nuclear facility. Many have advanced education, smart parents, smart kids. No biggie there. Franklin isn't a "city" and I would have to look at Collierville not sure on that one. Germantown is a suburb of Memphis I believe, but I would have to check to be sure.
So for city schools you have Nashville and Knoxville and even those are on the small side when compared to Detroit, New York, LA, things like that.
Again it's quite simple. The people most dependant on the gubment for their existance, the ones with the least independance will vote liberal. It doesn't matter where they live it only matters whether or not they are self sufficient. The difference is in the more rural areas there are fewer of the people that are dependant as a representation of that county population as compared to the ones with big cities. That's the bottom line.
It's the producers vs the takers and the takers won.
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