# Any examples of urban folk voting to screw over rural folk?

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**Created:** [September 10, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-examples-of-urban-folk-voting-to-screw-over-rural-folk/920287 "2020-09-10T20:42:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-examples-of-urban-folk-voting-to-screw-over-rural-folk/920287/25 "2020-09-11T00:49:11Z")

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Obviously, it was a while ago but [LA stole the water from the Owen’s Valley](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-owens-valley-eminent-domain-20170712-story.html%3f_amp=true) because those rural people didn’t need it as much as the urban core.

A more recent example would be something like the urban voters in [Colorado fighting for lower taxes as the expense of rural school districts](https://www.google.com/amp/s/co.chalkbeat.org/platform/amp/2020/5/28/21274125/gallagher-amendment-repeal-school-district-property-tax-shortfall).

I think that concrete examples are hard to come up with since in general it is benign neglect where rural voters are screwed over by a new road in a suburban housing project while their road continues to be unpaved and barely maintained.

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