Why are rural people conservatives?

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He just says people judge him based on things, like his gender or race he feels, where as big city people are more open minded and less judgmental. I didn't go into specifics with him and thought I would ask here, but I can ask more.

Could be that where he lives people expect him to be hyper masculine and racist because he’s a white male in a rural area, but perhaps he’s an effeminate guy and not racist at all. Or something else. Impossible to know what he means without actually knowing him Or asking him if it isn’t obvious what he means.

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No for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.

I don't think people would want him to be that way, because we both live in the same place, and I never came across any of this. But he doesn't want to talk about it when I asked him because talking about it makes him feel depressed. So I don't know why he thinks the big city is less judgmental, but wonder what it could be.

Oh well I haven't heard of any problems of gay people not being accepted in my area with the gay people I know, but maybe.

Being openly gay in rural Australia is like having a big red flag or carrying a target on your back.

The following US states need total lawlessness:

Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia (though I will drop if both Ossoff and Warnock are elected to the Senate), Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming.

Rural people are more traditional. Their viewpoints are more old-fashioned. Their clothes are more simple and dated. Their beliefs are also more traditional. The closer to the city someone lives, the more modern they're likely to be.

I was raised in a Trailer in rural Michigan and used to be very Conservative...

Then later I met more people at the University I went to, then when I had some jobs I lived in big cities...

I turned the opposite direction after that...

Now I live in a tiny village and in reality don't like it much, it's a nice apartment but my neighbors I don't connect with at all...

I mean my family is poor and don't care... In fact I received criticism about my internship/wanting to go back to get my Masters because I'm on disability right now and they sort of see winning disability as a life goal so they don't have to work... I keep hearing from my family and neighbors "why do you want to work and loose your disability?" My other family members, most of them don't even have their diploma/GED and here I'm sitting on an unused Bachelor's... I didn't earn that for nothing and they don't understand...

I get a little less than $800 dollars a month, plus I have nothing to do during the day, I am looking forward to my internship, and I'm gonna seriously try to get into the University of Idaho for next fall, the professors like me and want me to apply...

Then my goal is to live in a better place far away from my family...

I think when people talk of "being on disability" the perception is its acquired in order to gain compensation rather than being born with disability.

In the past I needed to be on disability because I was having severe bipolar episodes and stress was causing horrible meltdowns....

Now I'm on great medication and not all but lots of stress is gone from my life...

Time to move off disability...

Even my social workers are in this mindset, I've heard for years "you need a part-time, minimum wage job so don't lose your disability..."

Years ago, they even wanted me to work in the Goodwill factory back in the day when they circumvented minimum wage laws because back then it was legal to pay people on disability less than minimum wage... I was offered a full time job sorting clothes for $1.25 an hour... Being told "It's not for the pay but would keep you busy..."

Ummm I refused... I didn't earn a Bachelor's Degree in Zoology to work like that... They eventually changed the law and now the disabled people in their factories are payed minimum wage at least... But I really dislike Goodwill now...