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doverhog posted:Rural is any place where you have to drive a car to get around. This is a stupid metric. It's more like: Urban = Duh, high density city with mass transit. Suburban = Sprawl and/or "traditional" towns of 5-25k+ population with sprawl or low/medium density construction filling in the gaps. Propably a bus network and maybe light rail if you're lucky. Rural = Small towns and "cities" of 2000-10k residents that are surrounded by a significant amount of agricultural lands, forests, or otherwise undeveloped areas. Potentially a smattering of residential/industrial block zoning (like, pocket sprawl) development or smaller villages. Anyway, as to the main question of the OP, I'd say it's generally because the right is just saying "gently caress it" with the establishment. After the patriotic highs of post-9/11 and the early days of the Iraq War, the Bush administration just sort of muddled through the rest of the term. This was capped off by the 2008 financial crisis and the election of Obama, which after the humiliation of the later Bush administration, was interpreted by the establishment as a sign to keep their heads down and shut up for a while. On the other hand, the radical elements that coalesced into the Tea Party took the opposite message, leading to the split. The 2012 elections were kind of the last shot for the establishment, and they blew it with Romney. The second term of the Obama administration continued the US's slow, lovely slide from empire into mediocrity, along with progressive narratives generally dominating society. Trump came around and, as you know, started saying a bunch of the stuff that people really thought anyway, and essentially is promising not only explode the legacy of the Obama administration, but also the rotten GOP establishment that they felt got the country there in the first place. So, basically, a lot of people expected a collapse/revolution in 2008/2009, got blue-balled for 8 years, and are now looking to tear a lot of poo poo down.
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