[lbo-talk] Blog Post. The Road Beckons: Excerpt from Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate

[c b]

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>> millions of people who don't live in urban areas can be safely ignored
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> I'm sure you realize that far more of the population lives in urban areas than don't, yet the non-urbans are still considered more authentic, and not just by Sarah Palin.
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> Doug
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CB: Electorally, I'm guessing rural voices as votes have a bigger
weight because the sparsely populated large areas are over represented
in both federal and state Senatorial elections; their individual votes
have more weight. It isn't one-person-one vote.  One rural vote has
the same weight as multiple urban votes.

So, the urban radical may be ignoring the rural voices, but the state
power is not.