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The Rural / Urban Divide; which side are you on?

Raffey
4 min readOct 19, 2022

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A Rural American is joining the David St Vincent and Plurabus Left/Right debate

Image by: JimIrwin, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons

Just in case you missed it, this debate begins with

St Vincent and Plurabus… I am glad for your partnership in this endeavor, but I think new framing merits consideration. The old frames — left/right, blue/red, Republican-conservative-libertarian/Democrat-liberal-progressive — are so corrupted, no one knows what they mean anymore. As long as you stay inside meaningless frames, you will rehash the same old, same old stuff.

Framing is like a jigsaw puzzle. Without all the pieces, you cannot complete the puzzle.

The map above, illustrates where people live in this country. It also illustrates the Rural-Urban divide.

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Raffey
Raffey

Written by Raffey

Rural America is my home. I serve diner, gourmet, seven course, and homecooked thoughts — but spare me chain food served on thoughtless trains of thought.

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