Rural areas in the US tend to be conservative electoral strongholds. However, it wasn't always the case. The shift happened in the post-WWII period when technological changes enabled the rise of c...

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Original Title: Rural areas in the US tend to be conservative electoral strongholds. However, it wasn't always the case. The shift happened in the post-WWII period when technological changes enabled the rise of capital-intensive agriculture and the rising power of agribusiness who favored Republican policies.

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

"What is the village but a sink of localism, a den ofignorance, narrow-mindedness and communalism?"

-Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

https://web.archive.org/web/20180110194134/http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/debates/vol7p1b.htm

(Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who headed the committee drafting the Constitution of India from the Constituent Assembly debates, served as Law and Justice minister in the first cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru, and inspired the Dalit Buddhist movement after renouncing Hinduism.)