truly
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Originally posted by Hey Preacher!!!
So are you answering 'yes' to the original question?
2nd response to OP:
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Originally posted by truly
Yes indeed, cities are brooders for Liberals. Let me tell you a few reasons:
1] Great education. Yes there are failing inner city schools, but the majority of urbanites have access to a great education. And not just K-12. Obviously the majority of great colleges and universities are in urban areas. And once graduated from a great university, most of the highest educated grads stay in the city for employment reasons. So on a daily basis, our kids get to chat with adults who are PhD scientists, MDs, CEOs, CFOs, accountants, lawyers, engineers, etc.
2] We live in close proximity to people who are very different than we are. This makes us appreciate the logic of tolerance on a level that those who live in rural or small town can't. If your neighbor is LBGT or an ethnic minority or someone who deals with mental health issues, you just learn to deal with it. If you have a Somali neighbor that likes to butcher a goat in their back yard every so often then you realize that they will be tolerant when you want to skin some coon off of your maple tree. And our close proximity makes us realize that we are just better to all get along.
3] Gubt run services: Mass transit works. Large public parks with great walking trails are the gem of any major city. Public water and sewer is so much more cost effective than everyone having their own well and septic system. This makes understand "the economies of scale", and appreciate that there are many things that gubt can do better than individuals.
4] and speaking of services- all of the needy and mentally ill from small town USA migrate to the big city. Your shell shocked veterans end up close to the best VA hospitals, of which most are in cities. Your drug addicts come to cities for treatment. We do our best to rehabilitate them. Often we succeed. Which makes us understand that NOBODY should be just thrown to the curb like these shell shocked vets and druggies and the mentally ill. We know you all claim that through charity that you will care for them. But you didn't or they wouldn't have migrated here. So this builds the liberal mindset that we need social welfare and safety nets that are gubt run to catch those who fall through the cracks.
5] The shell shocked veterans tell us stories. And it makes us understand and hate war. And we deal with immigrants who have come here to escape the ravages of wars in their home countries. And many of these wars were the end result of our US foreign policies. The scars on their bodies and the far away look in their eyes is just like our own veterans. And because these Vets and immigrants live in close proximity they become friends.
And we realize that we could just all get along. If we just tried a little harder.
I think these maps that show so clearly that the higher density the population is the more likely the area is to be liberal really has everything to do with the fact that conservatives just can not live in close proximity to others- even other conservatives- besides Salt Lake City, there is no other major metropolitan area that is Red.
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