What nonurban xenophobes don't get: In a city, you might meet someone different from you—and live!
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Also true: you might live next to that person and end up hating their guts. (But that can happen in Smallville, pop. 200, too.)
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in cities, ppl are exposed to diversity&learn empathy, whereas in the more homogenous rural areas people see minorities as exotic
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Please come visit me in Chicago. The city is completely balkanized and parts are no-go zones.
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Do you think Detroit and Chicago are models? Or the Bay Area for that matter? Cities are very dysfunctional. Trump is right.
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precisely - the problem is that the smartest and most ambitious kids from rural areas go to college and then to cities
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“civilisation” literally means “the condition of living in cities”
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Here in St. Louis, media focuses on violence, not the trend in its reduction. Thank you for sharing the data!
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: Much simpler: cities are Democratic strongholds.
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