• graycube@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Obvious diversity. While rural areas can be diverse, it is much less obvious. In urban US one runs into a wide variety of people every day. In rural areas you don’t run into nearly as many people, and often the differences between them and you are minimal.

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      10 hours ago

      yep, this is it.

      that lack of contact reduces empathy so its easier to vote for the person on tv who is going to hurt the people the tv scares you into hating.

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      Not just diversity but the speed and amount of change people expect.

      The joke about Manhattan is that if you don’t like how it looks, come back tomorrow and it’ll be different.