susan Exactly. In my experience living in a rural area (as a democrat) that is decently close to a major city, the resentment starts when the city people move/visit here and immediately start complaining about the lack of amenities, the distance between places, the smell of the dairy farm, etc. I have seen city people come to the area and start criticizing farmers for raising animals for meat. Someone moved up here recently and opened a sandwich shop. Great, except those sandwiches are $13 each, when the local deli sells them for $6.  And yet it's the new place that gets profiled in food magazines and is labeled as "up and coming" and "hip." Who's eating there? Weekenders. Not locals. I could go on, but you get the idea. The point is - does this disconnect build any level of trust? Absolutely not. The resentment builds. And by the time the incoming city democrats start to get involved in politics and try to talk about actual policy, that trust has already been broken. No one wants to listen because all the other times they spoke, it was disrespectful.

susan Exactly. In my experience living in a rural area (as a democrat) that is decently close to a major city, the resentment starts when the city people move/visit here and immediately start complaining about the lack of amenities, the distance between places, the smell of the dairy farm, etc. I have seen city people come to the area and start criticizing farmers for raising animals for meat. Someone moved up here recently and opened a sandwich shop. Great, except those sandwiches are $13 each, when the local deli sells them for $6.  And yet it's the new place that gets profiled in food magazines and is labeled as "up and coming" and "hip." Who's eating there? Weekenders. Not locals. I could go on, but you get the idea. The point is - does this disconnect build any level of trust? Absolutely not. The resentment builds. And by the time the incoming city democrats start to get involved in politics and try to talk about actual policy, that trust has already been broken. No one wants to listen because all the other times they spoke, it was disrespectful.

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