<div>Quite frankly to most people like myself who live in rural areas of the midwest, coastal lifesytles, incomes and property values are "unreal." </div> <div> </div> <div>When socialism was at its height, it was Kansas not New York which produced the largest circulating left papers.</div> <div> </div> <div>Rural areas might appear right but that is because they have been neglected. Interesting enough in the past several years at least 4 anarchist info shops have opened up in fairly small size towns in Missouri (including my own). The potential is there.</div> <div> </div> <div>On a side note, the same problem I was complaining about happened to our info shop. At least four founding activitists have left for DC, San Francisco, and N.Y in the past year. </div> <div> </div> <div>jim<BR><BR><B><I>Doug Henwood <dhenwood@panix.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff
2px solid"><BR>On Mar 24, 2007, at 4:47 PM, jrdavis wrote:<BR><BR>> I would suggest that left groups close down their coast offices and <BR>> move inland. To areas with no left activity or very little. Get <BR>> back to the real people...<BR><BR>This makes no sense to me. If the left groups, whoever they are, have <BR>had so little success organizing the more-or-less like-minded in <BR>coastal cities, then why should they have any better prospects in <BR>thinly populated regions that lean fairly far to the right?<BR><BR>This trope of the "real people" is annoying as hell. I'm real, and <BR>I'm surrounded by 8 million New Yorkers, all of them real people. <BR>About 25 million people live in the New York media market, nearly 10% <BR>of the U.S. pop. Add metro areas like Boston, Washington, <BR>Philadelphia, and the entire state of California, we're talking a <BR>substantial chunk of the population. Where's more fruitful? Nebraska? <BR>Why? Because they're fat and
eat lots of beef and live far apart? Is <BR>that what makes them "realer" than my neighbors?<BR><BR>Doug<BR>___________________________________<BR>http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>