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Rural/Farm Life

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OnionPatch

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Tue Nov 26, 2024, 10:15 AM Nov 26

"Libs keep moving in and trying to change things!!" What does this even mean? [View all]

I recently moved to a rural area, my life's dream. I was raised on a big farm in the country and am no stranger to country life. However, I had a career in IT and had to live near big cities for my work. I always tried to at least have an acre or so for a garden, chickens, etc., so I've never been an actual "big city" person, even if I drove there for work.

Now I'm really out here in the country and not near a big city and am loving my little country place. But I keep hearing people talk about how the city folks move here and change everything by voting blue. I wouldn't vote red if someone put a gun to my head, but I'm not about to start changing everything around here. What do they even mean by that?

Can someone clarify for me the issues that are on these people's minds? In what way does a liberal moving to the country affect their country neighbors? Or are they just angry that you're going to make their precinct or county blue for national elections?

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They're fed a steady diet of victimhood on Fox News and other RW outlets Dennis Donovan Nov 26 #1
I wish so much they weren't in such a bubble OnionPatch Nov 26 #19
You're going to bus in drag queens for story hours. You know you are. Scrivener7 Nov 26 #2
I actually made a remark like that on Facebook, lol OnionPatch Nov 26 #7
When we lived near Madison WI I heard that a lot. LakeArenal Nov 26 #3
I was thinking maybe it's the schools OnionPatch Nov 26 #11
I was a teacher in the olden days. LakeArenal Nov 26 #22
Probably because you're gonna make them use pronouns Walleye Nov 26 #4
Change. mwmisses4289 Nov 26 #5
My Republican neighbors have been really nice to us. OnionPatch Nov 26 #10
I wish a lot of libs would move to NC and GA in the next 2 years and flip those states. OrlandoDem2 Nov 26 #6
I hear ya! I'm in Virginia. It's blue, but just barely. OnionPatch Nov 26 #8
We moved to a rural area in 1991 UpInArms Nov 26 #9
Yes! I never wanted to live in the city. OnionPatch Nov 26 #12
I moved to the foothills from the SF Bay area about 10 years ago. usonian Nov 26 #13
Well... TrunKated Nov 26 #14
I always wondered why Lisa was so mad about moving to the country. OnionPatch Nov 26 #18
they mean being tolerant of non-white, non-straight people Kali Nov 26 #15
and to be fair to actual rural people... Kali Nov 26 #16
But this sounds more like a city versus country thing OnionPatch Nov 26 #17
I think we all make a lot of assumptions and generalizations about others. Kali Nov 26 #20
Like renaming "Robert E. Lee Highschool" to "Harriet Tubman Highschool" Redleg Nov 26 #21
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