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Originally Posted by Riverman
Rural whites do not deserve to be pandered to by anyone. They believe abhorrent ****. They are disdainful of people who really do want to help them, because they would rather be racist than educated. They are ignorant, racist, bigoted dumb ****s and claiming they are "real" Americans is a disgrace to the history of this country. Boston, NYC, SF, LA and dozens of other cities are filled with brilliant, vibrant people of all colors. This is America. Not a bunch of *******s drinking natty lite, watching nascar, casually insulting minorities and fapping to Mark Levin.
I mean, yeah, but KB4Z isn't totally out of left field here.
It's bad for everyone as a society if a large portion of it continues to feel isolated and mocked, even if they're doing it to themselves.
No idea what the solution is, but waiting for them to die off isn't really viable. We'll need some way to culturally shift, likely slower than anyone would like, that group towards education.
On the positive side,
religion is on the decline in America, trending towards fewer religious people and more non-religious by about 6.9% from 2007 to 2014.
On the downside, it's not like those people letting go of religion are poor whites. Most studies show a consistant rate of belief among the poor and a decreasing amount of belief among the more affluent, which isn't really a shock.
To oversimplify and paraphrase the Prez, as long as they have very little, they're going to latch on to guns and religion.