What I don’t like about articles like this is that they never ask the obvious question, why?. So people from rural areas are more likely to be conservative. W

What I don’t like about articles like this is that they never ask the obvious question, why?. So people from rural areas are more likely to be conservative. Why? Because in a lot of places, like most of Latin America, the opposite is true. So what are the cultural and material reasons for that? The most obvious reason here, is that when you go to college it tends to make you more liberal. Because you learn about the world, which makes you more tolerant and less religious. But I think there are some psychosocial forces beyond that going on too. America was founded on the idea of going out and getting a bunch of free land and being self sufficient, so being godly and being self sufficient and being American all got tangled together. And if you’re wealthy and live in the country, you probably have a lot of property, which makes you conservative too. Anyways there’s a lot more going on here and nobody ever talks about it, everything gets blamed on whatever the new explanation for every problem is, the internet currently. The internet exaggerates and intensifies these tendencies but it’s not where they come from.