[lbo-talk] authentically working class

Andy F andy274 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 11 09:35:32 PDT 2008


On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> Half the U.S. population lives in suburbs, and another quarter in cities.
> Only a quarter lives in rural areas. A quarter of the U.S. population lives
> in the ten largest metro areas, and over 40% in the top 25. The <25,000
> jurisdictions your source speaks of are more often than not part of larger
> metropolitan agglomerations. The notion that small town America is somehow
> real and the rest of us are fake is purely phantasmic.

And even if small-towners represented a larger portion of the population, what of it? It wouldn't make abstinence eduction reduce unwanted pregnancies, or make ID legit.

-- Andy



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