Didn't Gary Trudeau have a cartoon a decade or so ago in which Doonesbury's mom was testifying before some committee and presented herself (or was presented), because she was a woman with a family farm in a prairie state, as "Iconic!"
Of course everyone knows that people in the cities aren't real people. They are just latte sipping gay commie yuppie pervert weirdos, just like all those folks in Bensonhurst and Jamaica Plains, or Bridgeport and Bronzeville. (Actually Bronzeville is getting yupped out, but with Black people.)
There of course gays, commies, increasingly yuppies, perverts, and weirdos even in Queens, but the point is obviously that there are tens of millions of working class people in the cities who are so real that the people who decree or assume that only rural white Southerners are real wouldn't want to associate with them either.
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 7, 2007, at 9:07 AM, jrdavis wrote:
>
> > Americans really don't attend church as much as
> they claim to. Here
> > is a link to an article which summarizes a study
> done in the late
> > 90's which compared actual church attendence in
> one county in Ohio
> > with a poll done in that county.
> >
> >
> >
>
http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=237
> >
>
> Thank you! I read about that study years ago and
> always wanted to
> track it down.
>
> I said earlier the small town/rural South is a small
> part of the U.S.
> pop. In the 2000 Census, the nonmetro pop was 22% of
> the U.S. total,
> and the Southern nonmetro/rural pop was 8% of the
> U.S. total. But
> those are the "real" people in some eyes, aren't
> they?
>
> Doug
>
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