# So apparently rural America (modern hunter gatherers) think city folk look down on them **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 17, 2016, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-apparently-rural-america-modern-hunter-gatherers-think-city-folk-look-down-on-them/772221 "2016-11-17T02:34:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 12
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-apparently-rural-america-modern-hunter-gatherers-think-city-folk-look-down-on-them/772221/12 "2016-11-17T14:56:04Z")
> [@Salvor](#): > > [For years, I've been watching anti-elite fury build in Wisconsin. Then came Trump. | Vox](http://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/11/16/13645116/rural-resentment-elites-trump) > > What have we EVER said to disparage such people ?!??!?!?!? While I think it’s true that all sorts of different groups will disparage others that are not them and rural folks are not innocent in that regard, this statement is strange given you [started a thread disparaging rural folks:](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=811043) > [@Is it possible to have an ultra dense city that has a low cost of living?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-have-an-ultra-dense-city-that-has-a-low-cost-of-living/772124/24): > > I do think there is something to the hollowing out of rural areas due to the sorting mechanism of higher education and the shift of rewards to higher skilled people. NY and other major population centers tend to be more magnets of people with greater skills, and as those people leave the smaller towns the leftover residents are more of the… slag. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-apparently-rural-america-modern-hunter-gatherers-think-city-folk-look-down-on-them/772221)._