Oh while I’m in country-passing mode, one of the biggest things I’ve noticed about America since graduating college, what all that “overclustering of Democratic voters in urban districts” stuff means in practice, there are a lot more “blue” people in “red” country than vice versa. (There’s just less people per unit of country.)
And at this point, “redneck” is the identity that’s most in continuity with “hippie”.
That’s on my mind, when I’m looking at all these cities’ real estate go crazy and I’m looking at Roseburg, we’re not just due for a back-to-the-land moment (like the 70s one that gave us geodesic dome communes and Emerald Triangle pot farmers), but a return to the norm where the frontier was rural and the core was urban
Like, the thing about Woodstock was that as recently as the 60s, upstate was where people from New York City would go to live cheaply in decaying buildings and create art and culture, we kind of flipped those roles for a few decades and we need to accommodate the fact it’s flipped back
Needs better internet, tho, now that websites are written assuming you can slurp down a few megabytes of 4G at any point, it’s an underrated quality of Craigslist that the thing still loads
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