So why are (some) city folks so angry all the time? They live in a city surrounded by fresh air and nice scenery. Probably don’t have to deal with bringing in a crop, raising livestock, too much wind and water, too little water, diseases that can destroy a years work in a few weeks, or the crop and beef prices that country folk have to deal with. Heck, how many Black people would like someone like Bundy if they encountered him in the middle of Detroit?
Hey, Pa! Is the corn ripe yet?
Nope, turn Rush Limbaugh on.
Sort of like that.
I grew up in a very rural area. Few of us were farmers. My parents grew up on farms. I just grew up in the country (though we had a field next door at both of the homes of my childhood. The earlier house had a cow pasture. The later house had a horse pasture.
Heh, Heh.
Well it isn’t so much like that at all; farmers are pretty sophisticated and need to have a hell of a lot of skills from welding to finance, to biology and chemistry.
I kind of like this idea of bigots being afraid of things. Maybe there is something to that…not sure yet.
But then that characteristic would have to include city types that are afraid of rural folks with their guns and bad attitudes. That would mean that city types that are afraid of rural types, could be bigots…nah, that wouldn’t make any sense would it?:rolleyes:
Grain farmers? Hog farmers? Rural based contractors? Rural based excavators? Lumber jacks? Plumbers? Computer programmers who drive an hour into the nearest urban center to work because they loath the idea of living 3 feet away from some snob/slob/whatever?
The ignorance in your post is simply fucking astounding.
I am absolutely afraid of god-bothering, gun wielding farmers.
Let’s revise to say that some have seasonal jobs with a lot of time on their hands, others not so much. Some may work 18 hour days on season, 0 off season. Some 12 hours a day year round. I’m just saying on the whole, there is more down time and/or more ability to listen to the radio in rural areas.
You’ve never been a farmer, or know any, or even seen how farms operate I gather.
Anyway, it’s just a stereotype, it doesn’t reflect reality. There are cranks in every segment of society.
Again, you seem to be confusing “rural life” with “farming.” I grew up in the country. Even farmers generally have full-time jobs, where I grew up.
We did spend more time in the car than most urban folks, so there was likely more opportunity to listen to the radio. The commutes are often quite long, for example. But the idea that there is more down time is not my experience.
most have cable or satellite TV and internet Nearly all have cell phones. I don’t know what they listen to on the radio; I’m confident it depends on their individual tastes. THe ones that are my age listen to the same classic rock and roll that I listen too. THe younger ones probably listen to hip hop…punk kids…Get off of my lawn!
Interesting. So this explains the dramatic shift in teachers’ political opinions in summertime.
The small farmers of my experience were not particularly sophisticated. They planted the seeds that seemed best from the seed suppliers they knew, did watering/fertlization, etc. on a schedule given to them by someone else, and called the OSU/OU extension office when they ran into an issue they needed help identifying/fixing. The “finance” was hardly more complex than household finances. The biology and chemistry were from other sources. I’ll grant you that a number knew how to weld.
To give context, my high school had the week of the county fair off every year because so many students were in FFA and would have missed class anyway.
This. There are angry racist people to be found in cities as well.
They’re jealous that all you hip city folks live in a haven of peaceful, vibrant diversity. 
Our interactions with government agencies aren’t always pleasant. Small towns – really small, populations of 500 or less – are subject to the same rules and regulations as cities, and with fewer resources to handle them.
A few towns I know of in central Iowa are having a hell of a time dealing with the DNR, which is insisting that septic tanks aren’t good enough anymore – your town has to have a sewer system. There are grants and loans to help pay for those, but that still leaves thousands in debt, and residents with much higher water/sewer bills. It leaves cities with much less money to do things like attract new business, maintain parks and buildings, etc.
We’ve also been told that in order to obtain flood insurance, a town has to be part of the National Flood Insurance Program, but to do that, the town has to designate a housing commissioner to watch over and approve new construction and remodels. Small towns don’t have the resources for that either.
Sometimes I feel like the government is out to destroy small towns. Or if not destroy, they’re not doing anything to keep small towns viable.
So anger among rural/small town folks doesn’t surprise me.
In the interest of fairness, when I interacted recently with neighbors on a very rural piece of property, they all were armed. So I think ‘gun wielding’ is not an inacurate term; in that particular case
They carry firearms to protect their livestock mostly from ravenous dogs dropped off by city people, as well as coyote and mountain lion.
Oddly enough, I was there from a very liberal city and I was packing 5 times more heat than they were. I had my guns to shoot for fun, they had theirs because it was a requirement for there livelihood. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were more skittish about me having guns than I was of them…but I don’t know, it didn’t come up in conversation.
If you think of rural armed folks in terms of the movie “deliverance” you are pretty much incorrect. They weren’t carrying guns to shoot people (unlike city types). Its more like they were armed because a gun is useful just like the box of tools in the back of their truck.
So, respectfully, you being afraid of them is based on your bigoted attitudes towards rural people.
Get a flat tire and start knocking on city folks’ doors for help. You’ll be lucky if anyone even comes to the door.
In the country, at least not so long ago, you’d get pulled into the farmer’s yard, probably been fed a meal and, if you were in good clothing, the farmer would probably change the tire for you. If he could get the dawg locked up first.
Except for that one time I threw a belt while I was out in the country and figured I’d just walk to that house down the road.
The 20 “No Trespassing” and “Beware of Dog” signs turned me back pretty quick.
Whenever I had car trouble, lots of people would stop by the side of the road and offer to help or change a tire or give me a lift. But I was very leery of going up to anyone’s house.
And if I had been black? That leeriness would be compounded. A lot.
Some people are nice. Some people are horrible. Rural life isn’t like the Andy Griffith show (which was in a TOWN. It was almost urban!)