The “Gulf” Widens Between ‘Urban’ & ‘Rural’

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Amen, DD.

It boils down to the BIBLE as the final authority in all matters of life. Period. This nation goes as so goes it's collective view of the Bible and God's authority to rule in the heart. The unregenerate heart, selfishness, sin are things that were something to be leary of in times past. Now, nothing is viewed as wrong or sinful that God says is. The whole Left-Right divide is just a generic broad term for evil vs good.
 

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Amen, DD.

It boils down to the BIBLE as the final authority in all matters of life. Period. This nation goes as so goes it's collective view of the Bible and God's authority to rule in the heart. The unregenerate heart, selfishness, sin are things that were something to be leary of in times past. Now, nothing is viewed as wrong or sinful that God says is. The whole Left-Right divide is just a generic broad term for evil vs good.

Amen! Thou hast both rightly & wisely stated the truth.
 

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On Limbaugh's show today, he said that some NBC "Reporter" (deep state media lackey) yesterday tweeted something along the lines of "how long are we going to let the rural areas dictate the political direction of the country?" Apparently, there are several million more people now, as a whole, in urban areas of the country as opposed to the rural areas.

Sounds like a threat to me.
 

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Scenario setting up for AGENDA21 w property rights from the U.N. Smart Growth , etc. Research it! Thanks for the Head's up. The further the Bible gets in the rear view mirror the closer impending doom gets.
 

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It's the demographics. Two elections for Governor, in Florida and Georgia, featured a conservative white man vs. a liberal black. Both elections were very close with one of them still trying to be stolen. And that's in the heart of Dixie. Think about that for a while. We're going to need those bibles.
 

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It's the demographics. Two elections for Governor, in Florida and Georgia, featured a conservative white man vs. a liberal black. Both elections were very close with one of them still trying to be stolen. And that's in the heart of Dixie. Think about that for a while. We're going to need those bibles.

Absolutely. In the border area of Texas I live in it is minority White by far. The signs for Robert Francis for Governor outnumbered Cruz 500 to 1 easily. Oh, what's that? You guys don't know, oh, oops, I'm sorry. Excuse me, Robert Francis Orork doesn't go by his real name. He goes by "Beto" because it's more expedient to fake his identity and "race" in these demographic catastrophes. It's a bad joke this open borders, anti-ICE, pro-abort, pro-sodomite faker got within 2 percentage points of winning his first run at Governor in the biggest state of L48 that has been red for decades.
 
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Amen, DD.

It boils down to the BIBLE as the final authority in all matters of life. Period. This nation goes as so goes it's collective view of the Bible and God's authority to rule in the heart. The unregenerate heart, selfishness, sin are things that were something to be leary of in times past. Now, nothing is viewed as wrong or sinful that God says is. The whole Left-Right divide is just a generic broad term for evil vs good.

No the book of Mormon is the true word of God. Its written down. On paper. What more proof do you need?
 

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It's the demographics. Two elections for Governor, in Florida and Georgia, featured a conservative white man vs. a liberal black. Both elections were very close with one of them still trying to be stolen. And that's in the heart of Dixie. Think about that for a while. We're going to need those bibles.

Not a true liberal black. A Marxist, Communist black. There are lots of Marxist, Communist whites also, that's for sure.
 

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Not a true liberal black. A Marxist, Communist black. There are lots of Marxist, Communist whites also, that's for sure.

Liberals are flaming reactionaries compared to the hard-core communists currently rising in the ranks of the Democrat Party.
 

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Ran across a nice article on this topic recently.

Rural (white) America is being starved to death at an accelerated rate. Obviously we all know the brain drain started generations ago with things like shipping manufacturing overseas, introduction of automobile, college for all etc but imo opinion it’s in its final stages.

Most if not all current investing dollars is going into city (and surrounding suburbs) infrastructure with the gap only widening. Good example is 5G while many small towns are still barely at 3G. No new money coming in and a lot of the economic activity from things like Social Security making these towns essentially zombie towns that id sadly expect to die off as their aging population does and force the remaining residents to the cities.

Another consideration to make when trying to make future plans for where to live in the future trying to escape globo homo. State and federal govs could essentially just stop supporting these small towns and it’s game over

Much of rural America is doomed to decline
Public policy solutions need to grapple with, not ignore, this economic reality.
David Swenson ANALYSISJuly 9, 2019
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The Conversation and is republished here with permission.

Since the Great Recession, most of the nation’s rural counties have struggled to recover lost jobs and retain their people. The story is markedly different in the nation’s largest urban communities.

I’m writing from Iowa, where every four years presidential hopefuls swoop in to test how voters might respond to their various ideas for fixing the country’s problems.

But what to do about rural economic and persistent population decline is the one area that has always confounded them all.

The facts are clear and unarguable. Most of the nation’s smaller urban and rural counties are not growing and will not grow.

Let’s start with my analysis of U.S. Commerce Department data.


Metropolitan areas consist of those counties with central cities of at least 50,000, along with the surrounding counties that are economically dependent on them. They make up 36% of all counties. Between 2008, the cusp of the Great Recession, and 2017, they enjoyed nearly 99% of all job and population growth.

What remained of job and population growth was divided among the 21% of counties that are called micropolitans, which have midsized cities with between 10,000 and 50,000 residents, and the remaining 42% of counties that are rural.

Nationally, 71% of all metropolitan counties grew between 2008 and 2017, but more than half of the remaining micropolitan and rural counties did not grow or shrank in population.


Regional breakdown
Regional outcomes were also sharply divergent. The West and the South combined had 72% and 82% of the job and population gains, respectively, while the Northeast and the Midwest split the remainder.

Economic and population declines among micropolitan and rural areas were especially strong in the Northeast and the Midwest. Eighty-seven percent of the micropolitan counties contracted in the Northeast, as did 85% of their rural counties. In the Midwest, 61% of the micropolitans contracted, as did 81% of the rural counties.

Geographically, a large fraction of the nation is struggling to simply maintain the status quo. Yes, there are many struggling metropolitan regions, but there are many more midsized and rural counties wrestling with decline.

Bringing it back home, 69 of Iowa’s 99 counties have contracted since 2010, along with 10 of its 15 micropolitan counties. This ongoing struggle of midsized counties has negative economic and social consequences. Residents in surrounding rural areas depend on them for jobs, essential services, public goods and other commercial and recreational amenities.

There is, in short, a regional ripple effect. When micropolitan counties falter, neighboring rural counties that depend on them often falter, too. This is true in Iowa and evident as well across much of the U.S.




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What’s behind the trends
Scholars and analysts have varying explanations for these outcomes.

The more rural areas are hollowing out the middle of the workforce. They contain lower percentages of people in the prime working ages of 25 to 54 because of persistent outmigration.

Others define the population losses in terms of widespread declines in demand for middle skill jobs due to automation and outsourcing in manufacturing, as well as technology advances in mining, forestry and agriculture.

Of late, manufacturing and technology firms claim that the woes of small urban and rural areas are due to skills gaps – that distressed economies could grow and their populations could stabilize if more people acquired more technical skills.




Fated to dwindle
The U.S. has been consistently urbanizing, especially for the past 100 years. Technology advances in manufacturing, agriculture, mining, fishing and forestry accelerated migration from rural to urban areas.

Over time, incremental innovations in those original core industries required fewer workers, further boosting migration away from rural areas. Much of the blue-collar and middle-income shares of more rural economies dwindled as a result.


Small and medium-sized urban areas – and the rural counties that are linked to them – are left with transportation, public works, housing and commercial bases that they struggle to maintain. Inevitably, blight ensues. Most micropolitan and rural communities have no viable economic Plan B, so I believe that the majority of them are fated to dwindle until eventually reaching some level of stability.

Federal and state governments provide them fresh water and wastewater treatment aassistance, health care access, subsidized transportation and workforce training, but none of that alters the underlying forces inhibiting their collective for growth. Every core industry originally undergirding these areas continues to shed jobs.

Meanwhile, the nation’s metropolitan cities continue to accumulate greater opportunities for meaningful jobs, career advancement and enhanced qualities of lives
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As a researcher who has studied rural economies for more than three decades, I urge policymakers to seriously consider the fact that most rural areas will not grow. It is important to develop policies that assure access to necessary public services, connect rural residents to modern technologies for the sake of participating meaningfully in modern society and safeguard that which is good and appealing about these less populated places.

Academics are good at isolating the causes and the consequences of rural decline, but we have yet to figure out what to do about it.

David Swenson is an Associate Scientist of Economics at Iowa State University. EmailHigh Country News ateditor@hcn.org or submit aletter to the editor.

https://www.hcn.org/articles/growth-sustainability-much-of-rural-america-is-doomed-to-decline
 

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Ran across a nice article on this topic recently.

Rural (white) America is being starved to death at an accelerated rate. Obviously we all know the brain drain started generations ago with things like shipping manufacturing overseas, introduction of automobile, college for all etc but imo opinion it’s in its final stages.

Most if not all current investing dollars is going into city (and surrounding suburbs) infrastructure with the gap only widening. Good example is 5G while many small towns are still barely at 3G. No new money coming in and a lot of the economic activity from things like Social Security making these towns essentially zombie towns that id sadly expect to die off as their aging population does and force the remaining residents to the cities.

Another consideration to make when trying to make future plans for where to live in the future trying to escape globo homo. State and federal govs could essentially just stop supporting these small towns and it’s game over



https://www.hcn.org/articles/growth-sustainability-much-of-rural-america-is-doomed-to-decline

Exactly why you learn to be self sufficient and live off the grid if possible. Read UN Agenda 2030. This was in the plans for decades. Force all of the people slowly into huge cities stacked like cockroaches. It's easier to control the population when were not all spread out. No thanks I will pass. I like the country or subberbs.
 
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