Why are rural areas more conservative than urban areas?

[European Loyalist]

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Even in ultra-liberal Canada there are rural regions and towns which are deeply conservative christian and traditional.

[2Cool]

Less educated/more ignorant, less racial/ethnic diversity (more prejudices), more religious etc.

[Electronic God-Man]

Less educated/more ignorant, less racial/ethnic diversity (more prejudices), more religious etc.

Thank you for summing that up for us. Conservative = bad, wrong.

[European Loyalist]

Less educated/more ignorant, less racial/ethnic diversity (more prejudices), more religious etc.

Plenty of educated people are conservative. And not all urban cities have a lot of racial/ethnic diversity.

[Mercury]

Cities are more reliant on the government and thus city folk believe government intervention to be a necessity in daily life. Rural people obviously are more self-reliant and independent and wish the government to leave them alone, save for vital services. Despite the fact one lives in a city, they tend to be more isolated socially than rural people. That's why so many in NYC have attitudes and don't want anything to do with strangers. Somewhat snobbish. I wonder if this is why many city people are pro-immigration and multiculturalism, perhaps they never get to interact with the non-whites they pass on the streets and don't see what they are really like.

[European Loyalist]

Cities are more reliant on the government and thus city folk believe government intervention to be a necessity in daily life. Rural people obviously are more self-reliant and independent and wish the government to leave them alone, save for vital services. Despite the fact one lives in a city, they tend to be more isolated socially than rural people. That's why so many in NYC have attitudes and don't want anything to do with strangers. Somewhat snobbish. I wonder if this is why many city people are pro-immigration and multiculturalism, perhaps they never get to interact with the non-whites they pass on the streets and don't see what they are really like.

That's what I was thinking as well. In rural areas family and community are very important. In cities it seems to be all about individualism.

[PetiteParisienne]

I think city people are more liberal as a result of the extreme exposure to foreigners and the dependency on technological amenities. As has been mentioned already, rural life is self-sustaining and very focused on the immediate community.

[Damião de Góis]

Rural areas are poorer and less developed. Immigrants won't go to those areas because there are no jobs there. This causes rural areas to not be multi-cultural at all.

[Supreme American]

Less educated/more ignorant, less racial/ethnic diversity (more prejudices), more religious etc.

More textbook liberalism.

Apparently being "educated" to a liberal means to publish numerous IQ studies with the same inegalitarian conclusions and then invoke various methods of damage control to deny those conclusions.

Actually, people tend to cluster politically in enclaves as much as they do in racial or sexual orientation enclaves. Conservatives are more likely to be settled with families, thus they don't live in urban environments since they aren't particularly good places for children, whereas liberals are more likely to be single, live downtown, hang out at the clubs, restaurants, and theaters.

Besides, if smarter people lived in urban environments, why are such environments full of filth and crime? Whoops...

[Supreme American]

I think city people are more liberal as a result of the extreme exposure to foreigners and the dependency on technological amenities. As has been mentioned already, rural life is self-sustaining and very focused on the immediate community.

It seems to me that more exposure to foreigners is actually a negative thing. For example, the most pro-black liberal apologetics I see from white liberals are those who do not live in urban environments near blacks and who basically only interact with blacks on a very shallow basis at their places of employment. After they punch the clock, off they go back to their self-segregated enclave. In other words, this stuff is either ignorance/lack of exposure or just plain political lip service.