There's plenty of examples of sustained protest in American history when people cared about an issue. Place has been around for a while and despite the "lack of a central city" or public transit people know where to go march.
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Replying to @Pinboard
Only at the state level at best and rarely there. Hasn’t been sustained, get people on the streets every weekend protest on the national level since Vietnam, and even then it was sporadic and limited compared to, say, South Korea
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Replying to @BeijingPalmer
The Occupy movement was sustained and national
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I agree with you that the U.S. doesn't have a national protest culture and that such organizing attempts quickly dissipate, but I think that the reasons for it have little to do with geography or urbanism.
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Successful protest countries tend to be places where at least 30 percent or more of the nation is in one city. Biggest US one is, what, 2.5%
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Replying to @BeijingPalmer
Yeah, they also tend to be ones that use the metric system
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Replying to @Pinboard
I don’t think you can dismiss something that makes both logistics and impact so much easier.
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Replying to @BeijingPalmer
It should be possible to distinguish between the two theories (political culture vs. concentration/geography) by looking at state-level protests, since there is a convenient assortment of states where population both is and isn't concentrated in a central city
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Replying to @Pinboard
I think it’s only New York and Illinois that really have this? Anywhere else?
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Replying to @BeijingPalmer
Are you talking about population concentrated in one city? Washington State, Massachussets, Michigan, Colorado, Oregon, Georgia, Minnesota, Pennsylvania all come to mind.
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And the counterexample states with several large cities are California, Texas, Ohio, Florida, Virginia
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