The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.
So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out
April 22, 2026 at 12:57 AM
The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.
karl urban karl rural
November 8, 2023 at 10:29 AM
karl urban karl rural
There, my friends, is an urban-suburban-rural, multiracial coalition.
November 5, 2025 at 6:16 AM
There, my friends, is an urban-suburban-rural, multiracial coalition.
Sen. @ossoff.senate.gov on rural hospital closures: “We’re the wealthiest country in the world. Every community—rural, suburban, urban, Black, white, rich, poor—deserves world-class healthcare. That’s the bare minimum.”
October 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Sen. @ossoff.senate.gov on rural hospital closures: “We’re the wealthiest country in the world. Every community—rural, suburban, urban, Black, white, rich, poor—deserves world-class healthcare. That’s the bare minimum.”
Report: More Americans Moving Away From Urban Areas For Rural Life Where They Have Escalating Feud With Beaver
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March 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Report: More Americans Moving Away From Urban Areas For Rural Life Where They Have Escalating Feud With Beaver
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So many of us urban queers are refugees from rural America. The constant calls for urban liberals to "get to understand" rural America fail to recognize that we understand it all to well. It's why we fucking fled.
October 5, 2026 at 8:55 PM
So many of us urban queers are refugees from rural America. The constant calls for urban liberals to "get to understand" rural America fail to recognize that we understand it all to well. It's why we fucking fled.
Freezing Medicaid, meals for seniors and kids will hurt many Tennesseans. Urban and rural.
January 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Freezing Medicaid, meals for seniors and kids will hurt many Tennesseans. Urban and rural.
Obvious answer: E-bikes are liberal/urban-coded, ATVs are rural/conservative/Republican-coded.
October 5, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Obvious answer: E-bikes are liberal/urban-coded, ATVs are rural/conservative/Republican-coded.
Urban dictionary implies the existence of a rural dictionary
February 16, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Urban dictionary implies the existence of a rural dictionary
So when we say "rural outreach"… who do we mean?
Rural areas aren't a monolith.
Do we mean big landowners & mining interests?
Do we mean the rural cousins of urban libs, who tend to come from middle class+ rural families? (not exclusively obvs, but that's who can afford to send kids to college)
Rural areas aren't a monolith.
Do we mean big landowners & mining interests?
Do we mean the rural cousins of urban libs, who tend to come from middle class+ rural families? (not exclusively obvs, but that's who can afford to send kids to college)
July 30, 2026 at 11:04 PM
So when we say "rural outreach"… who do we mean?
Rural areas aren't a monolith.
Do we mean big landowners & mining interests?
Do we mean the rural cousins of urban libs, who tend to come from middle class+ rural families? (not exclusively obvs, but that's who can afford to send kids to college)
Rural areas aren't a monolith.
Do we mean big landowners & mining interests?
Do we mean the rural cousins of urban libs, who tend to come from middle class+ rural families? (not exclusively obvs, but that's who can afford to send kids to college)
Also, as we all know, there are lots of rural areas that don't vote GOP.
Coincidentally, they're all the rural areas that aren't majority-white.
We do ourselves a real disservice pretending the "rural-urban divide" in politics is real. It ain't. Full stop.
Coincidentally, they're all the rural areas that aren't majority-white.
We do ourselves a real disservice pretending the "rural-urban divide" in politics is real. It ain't. Full stop.
July 30, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Also, as we all know, there are lots of rural areas that don't vote GOP.
Coincidentally, they're all the rural areas that aren't majority-white.
We do ourselves a real disservice pretending the "rural-urban divide" in politics is real. It ain't. Full stop.
Coincidentally, they're all the rural areas that aren't majority-white.
We do ourselves a real disservice pretending the "rural-urban divide" in politics is real. It ain't. Full stop.
Rick Wilson on MSNBC: Democrats can win everywhere—rural, suburban, and urban—if they stop chasing purity tests and start focusing on affordability and economic reality.
November 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Rick Wilson on MSNBC: Democrats can win everywhere—rural, suburban, and urban—if they stop chasing purity tests and start focusing on affordability and economic reality.
u.s. rural and small town policing is, I suspect, generally way more corrupt and brutal than urban policing but also reported on much less
A sheriff in Mississippi, the highest paid and most powerful public figure in his county, staffed his mother’s commercial chicken farm with inmates from the local jail and used taxpayer-purchased equipment to improve it, an investigation by The New York Times and Mississippi Today found.
Mississippi Sheriff Used Inmate Labor for Family Farm
In Mississippi, incarcerated trusties cleaned chicken houses, fixed cars and installed flooring for the benefit of a local sheriff and his associates, a new investigation found.
www.nytimes.com
March 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
u.s. rural and small town policing is, I suspect, generally way more corrupt and brutal than urban policing but also reported on much less
There is gun violence in rural America, but much of it looks different.
Rural folks often don’t have access to healthcare or a good paying job, but they do have access to a gun — suicide rates are consistently higher in rural spaces than urban spaces.
Rural folks often don’t have access to healthcare or a good paying job, but they do have access to a gun — suicide rates are consistently higher in rural spaces than urban spaces.
April 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
There is gun violence in rural America, but much of it looks different.
Rural folks often don’t have access to healthcare or a good paying job, but they do have access to a gun — suicide rates are consistently higher in rural spaces than urban spaces.
Rural folks often don’t have access to healthcare or a good paying job, but they do have access to a gun — suicide rates are consistently higher in rural spaces than urban spaces.
very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors
October 6, 2026 at 4:05 AM
very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors
And while ICE must be abolished, if everyone goes back to their brunches while cops murder Black people in urban areas and torture Indigenous people in rural ones, I will lose it.
October 6, 2026 at 3:32 PM
And while ICE must be abolished, if everyone goes back to their brunches while cops murder Black people in urban areas and torture Indigenous people in rural ones, I will lose it.
coyote day
me (sometimes)
urban OR rural :)
me (sometimes)
urban OR rural :)
March 23, 2026 at 10:40 PM
coyote day
me (sometimes)
urban OR rural :)
me (sometimes)
urban OR rural :)
Crockett: The numbers show that in rural Texas they were bleeding population, urban Texas was growing exponentially but they count inmates where they are imprisoned.. rural Texas is getting better roads because they are counting those inmates that are not driving on those roads..
December 5, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Crockett: The numbers show that in rural Texas they were bleeding population, urban Texas was growing exponentially but they count inmates where they are imprisoned.. rural Texas is getting better roads because they are counting those inmates that are not driving on those roads..
Are you urban, suburban, or rural?
October 5, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Are you urban, suburban, or rural?
why are there rarely articles written about liberals in red state urban centers (e.g. Salt Lake City) being gerrymandered into some rural conservative representative?
December 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
why are there rarely articles written about liberals in red state urban centers (e.g. Salt Lake City) being gerrymandered into some rural conservative representative?
Closing rural hospitals to open urban concentration camps
Kristi Noem inspecting a building she wants to acquire in Chicago in order to expand ICE operations in the city
October 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Closing rural hospitals to open urban concentration camps
Just going to point out again that our arbitrary political rules permit Republicans to attack urban areas with impunity but strictly forbid the faintest whiff of condescension toward rural areas by Democrats
“The first thing I thought was, ‘What is she talking about?’” said Bryan Fish, the vice mayor of Culver City, whom everyone calls Bubba but doesn’t look like someone whom everyone calls Bubba. “The only crime here,” he added, “is like the $18 strawberry at Erewhon.”
culver city, crime haven! lmaooo
culver city, crime haven! lmaooo
Bondi Suggests Culver City Has a Crime Problem. Culver City Has a Problem With That.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Just going to point out again that our arbitrary political rules permit Republicans to attack urban areas with impunity but strictly forbid the faintest whiff of condescension toward rural areas by Democrats
practically every rural-to-urban person i’ve known in my life (and i grew up in OK, i know a *lot* of these folks) is far harsher on the rural conservatives they grew up around than the average urban progressive, wonder why “you must be patient with the country folk” scholars don’t ever talk to them
Like, you know as well as I do that these people are not children who are just waiting to be led gently into the light. I'm so tired of this discourse. I love how nobody ever asks those of us who left these areas WHY we didn't stick around. Perhaps we have some fucking insight
April 17, 2024 at 6:53 PM
practically every rural-to-urban person i’ve known in my life (and i grew up in OK, i know a *lot* of these folks) is far harsher on the rural conservatives they grew up around than the average urban progressive, wonder why “you must be patient with the country folk” scholars don’t ever talk to them