re: #431 Blind Frog Belly White

You know what I’m fucking sick to death of? Being asked to understand and sympathize with worried white people in the middle of the country. Hearing about how terrible it is that there are no jobs in rural areas, that all of the jobs are in metro areas, and that people there have no hope.

Yeah, that’s awful. But it’s not fucking news. This is the same process that’s been going on since industrialization began. Jobs have been leaving the rural areas and moving to the city for 200 years.

You know what the rest of us did? WE MOVED. THAT is why there are so many more of us on the coasts, and in the cities. Because that’s what we had to do to find work, to raise our families.

When we did, we found out that there is a lot more to humanity than straight, white Christians, and that those people are really just like us. They want peace, stability, a safe place to live their lives and raise their children. They want to be themselves without fear. Why doesn’t somebody write an article telling white people in the middle of America that THEY need do understand US?

Rant off.

Living here in Texas, close to Dallas but in a blood red area, I do envy those that live in blue states. At the same time, I wonder if, with the internet, and with global selling and shipping, if a number of companies in CA and other states could not move to places like Iowa.

I do understand there are differences, and I understand the possible struggles at the beginning, but, like the rest of us, changing this country won’t help if all of the companies pile in a few areas.

And the costs would be cheaper.