Why are cities so liberal and rural areas so conservative?

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a big driver is the dynamic of how needs differ between the two locations and how government plays into that.

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I'll give it a listen but I'd always assumed that. You're much, much more reliant on government in a large metro area so it's normal to want a nanny state.

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Ken does an exceptional job of laying it out without pushing a narrative.

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There isn't a narrative. It is hive mind thought process combined with people that have a much higher propensity to be reliant on others and less self sufficient that make up the entirety of the Democrat/Communist voting block.

LIberals in cities have been indoctrinated and they don't even know it. They are literal walking double-standards.

Our country has been captured, maliciously, by communism.

Bonhoeffer wrote a letter about stupid people while in prison. Great insights, and solidified in my mind that stupid people are the biggest danger to any society, not evil people.

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If we want to know how to get the better of stupidity, we must seek to understand its nature. This much is certain, that it is in essence not an intellectual defect but a human one. There are human beings who are of remarkably agile intellect yet stupid, and others who are intellectually quite dull yet anything but stupid. We discover this to our surprise in particular situations. The impression one gains is not so much that stupidity is a congenital defect, but that, under certain circumstances, people are made stupid or that they allow this to happen to them. We note further that people who have isolated themselves from others or who lives in solitude manifest this defect less frequently than individuals or groups of people inclined or condemned to sociability. And so it would seem that stupidity is perhaps less a psychological than a sociological problem.

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Here's the whole letter if any of you are interested; Bohnhoeffer theory on stupid people.

I’ll add. In rural you are more accountable for your actions. More people know you and that makes a big difference. You have a community where everyone cares about it. Trouble makers stick out and everyone knows who they are.

You don’t have that in inner cities. Just gobs of people who don’t know each other. That person you pass in sidewalk could be looking for a new victim or be a responsible person but you have no idea. They could pull a knife out and stab you or just keep walking - its a game of chance that usually everyone becomes a victim at some point.

Cities are all pro big government and rural wants government to stay the hell away.

Ironically, rural is more social. And rural os more caring. They would feed you and not bat an eyelash. They are social and talk more in meaningful ways. Cities is less social because you are among strangers, and its dangerous to talk to some folk.

It’s pretty simple to me


Cities rely on collective or shared resources and less on individual resources. Shared transit for instance. People living in a city are more inclined to rely on government for something.

In rural areas the reliance is on self. People who don’t require government resources are more inclined to detach from a collective or shared mindset. They’re not so concerned with what the government can do for them.

People in cities get the benefits of tax dollars while people in rural areas don’t.

Because in rural areas people work.

Cities are the engines of economic growth, science and innovation, and social mobility. In that regard it makes sense rural communities are more traditional/conservative leaning vs urban communities being more liberal/progressive leaning.

Cities are inherently a more complex existence with more regular interactions with people and entities. Complexity requires more of an arbiter of problems, disputes, rules. Government serves as that arbiter.

Economic inequality is more visible and pronounced in cities which fuels liberal populism. The target of liberal populism tends to specifically be the “rich” as the “rich” are the true “others” in urban communities. Every city has poor and middle class folks of every stripe and color.

Rural communities have plenty of inequality as well which likewise fuels conservative populism. However right wing populism tends to target other ethnicities or religions not present in rural communities as the targeted “others” as opposed to the “rich.”

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In rural you are more accountable for your actions.

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I don’t agree. Living in close quarters brings a lot of social accountability. That accountability though requires a regulatory state and system in a city. I’ve seen plenty of unofficial dumps on rural property in Mississippi and it happens because it’s out of sight. You cant ever be nearly as out of sight in a city. I’m not sure either breeds any more or less accountability than the other. But the systems of that accountability are different and likely explain this city mouse v country mouse political split.