Somebody ought to write a book about how absurd is the idea that white rurals are more “real” than other Americans. Oh, wait, @paulwaldman.bsky.social and I already did—and were *slammed* for even daring to suggest that city folk are just as American as anyone else.
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Exactly right.
Thousands of different cultures are mingling happily in lower Manhattan right now, and anyone who can't get on board with that is the social misfit.
America always has been and always will be diverse.
Love it or leave it, assholes.
Kevin M. Kruse
At some point this claim from white rurals and their advocates that "You can't get along with different people" means that they are the different people with whom we cannot get along.
