Tom Nichols is having a lot of fun on his timeline, having said that rural America should stop thinking of itself as ‘Default American’, because since the founding of the Republic, the population has consistently been getting less and less rural. This came out of an article from someone visiting some small town where the gas station also sells enough guns to outfit the Wolverines.

This led to a lot of rural types touting their superiority over the Coastal Elites….

You literally could not pay me enough money to live in an urban craphole like Boston, New York, Philadelphia, or DC. Like the only places @RadioFreeTom has ever lived.

— Gary HokieHawk (@grsvt81) March 19, 2018

I don’t think you’re ever going to have to worry about anyone paying you enough to live in those places https://t.co/PG459Wz0W4

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 19, 2018