[lbo-talk] authentically working class

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Sep 11 09:52:03 PDT 2008


On Sep 11, 2008, at 12:35 PM, Andy F wrote:


> 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.

No, it wouldn't. But it galls me no end that "small town America" is somehow seen as more real than big town America. Brooklyn, where I live now, is just one of five boroughs in NYC, but it's got more than three times the pop of Alaska. But Palin is "real" because she's from the sticks, and I'm not, because I'm a, as Rudy (of all people) put it with a sneer at the RNC, "cosmopolitan." My zip code alone, 11238, has five times the pop of whatever the fucking little burg is that Palin was mayor of. Which makes her real and me an astral projection, or French, or something.

Doug



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