The Revenge Of The Urban Archipelago
For those of you who are not familiar with the concept of the Blue Urban Archipelago, you might want to read this first.
Most of you live in one of the Urban Islands. You'll notice that on my profile I refer to Louisville as a Blue Island in a Sea of Red. And that is true in a lot of places. If you live in Chicago, Denver, New Orleans, Nashville, Atlanta, St Louis, Kansas City or Austin, all you have to do is get in your car and drive for a half and hour and you will find yourself in the middle of Bible Land. In some places the islands are even tinier. Downtown Dallas is a completely different world from even the nearest suburbs. Same for downtown San Diego, Phoenix or Salt Lake. In those places a few blocks, not a few miles, can make the difference.
Anyway, I've noticed that here in Louisville resentment against the Republican, Christian, Rural parts of the state has been growing. After the last presidential election, Louisvillians were annoyed that the rest of Kentucky had voted for Bush. They felt like a resident of Possum Trot ( a real place!) didn't really have any say-so on The War On Terra, since there were no likely terrorist targets in the Greater Posuum Trot area. They didn't really like these people coming here to Louisville on weekends to shop or eat out and then trying to legislate our lifestyles at the state leve when they went back home. And they most certainly were tired of them blathering on about their churches or coming here on "missions" to convert us or protesting us in our own backyards while accepting all of the tax dollars that flow out of the city and into the rural subsidies.
So I think yesterday's election has a lot more to do with Urbanites telling the hicks to stay home and shut the fuck up than anything else.
What do you think?
Most of you live in one of the Urban Islands. You'll notice that on my profile I refer to Louisville as a Blue Island in a Sea of Red. And that is true in a lot of places. If you live in Chicago, Denver, New Orleans, Nashville, Atlanta, St Louis, Kansas City or Austin, all you have to do is get in your car and drive for a half and hour and you will find yourself in the middle of Bible Land. In some places the islands are even tinier. Downtown Dallas is a completely different world from even the nearest suburbs. Same for downtown San Diego, Phoenix or Salt Lake. In those places a few blocks, not a few miles, can make the difference.
Anyway, I've noticed that here in Louisville resentment against the Republican, Christian, Rural parts of the state has been growing. After the last presidential election, Louisvillians were annoyed that the rest of Kentucky had voted for Bush. They felt like a resident of Possum Trot ( a real place!) didn't really have any say-so on The War On Terra, since there were no likely terrorist targets in the Greater Posuum Trot area. They didn't really like these people coming here to Louisville on weekends to shop or eat out and then trying to legislate our lifestyles at the state leve when they went back home. And they most certainly were tired of them blathering on about their churches or coming here on "missions" to convert us or protesting us in our own backyards while accepting all of the tax dollars that flow out of the city and into the rural subsidies.
So I think yesterday's election has a lot more to do with Urbanites telling the hicks to stay home and shut the fuck up than anything else.
What do you think?
posted by Greg at 5:10 PM
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