I had an interesting conversation with a man earlier. If his insight is accurate, I learned something new today.

As he was considering the election results, he noticed a result map that showed the results by county. There is some variance, but for the most part, a lot of the Trump votes came from more rural areas, while the majority of the Clinton votes came from the cities.

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The man who mentioned this to me had a hypothesis about why this is. His thoughts were that there is a different mentality between those who live "in the country and own their own land" and the majority of city dwellers who rent, and do not own much.

He also pointed out how the Clinton supporters reacted to the election results, and thought that this was evidence that his theory was correct. Basically, in many areas, a good amount of property was destroyed during the protests.

Since rural citizens only have their own property to destroy and the property of their neighbors, they do not generally react in this way, and have more of a respect for private property.

When people can be seen destroying private property in protests and riots, it shows that they do not share this perspective. Many rural folks know their neighbors and those who live nearby. This is harder to accomplish in the city, because there are so many more people.

When I lived outside of Madison, WI, I did not know any of my neighbors. When I lived in New Orleans, LA, I could travel around the block and not recognize the people who lived there. Now, even though I have only lived out in the country for one year, I know everyone within a few mile radius, but that is a whole lot less people thank lived within a few blocks of me when I was in the city.

Since I had never looked at it this way, it was interesting to get exposed to the idea. Though not every part of it may be accurate, and though each person (whether in the city or in the country) is an individual, there still may be some truth in his evaluation.

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Or, maybe the "country folk" (except for @papa-pepper) are a bunch of out-of-date, backwards hillbillies.

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I will continue to look into this, and what else I can come up with pertaining to the potential validity of this perspective.

I just figured that I would mention it to give you some food for thought.

Those were his thoughts, what are your?

I'm on the mobile today, so no fancy signatures, but this post is open for Operation Translation.

Thanks, @papa-pepper