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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"If a Democrat ever talked about rural (I mean REAL) America the way that ...
Republicans talk about urban America pretty much daily, it would be a 24/7 cable news story. "
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"If a Democrat ever talked about rural (I mean REAL) America the way that ... (Original Post)
edhopper
Jul 2019
OP
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)1. K & R
Stuart G
(38,421 posts)2. K and R
lunasun
(21,646 posts)3. 100% IMO Yes
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)4. THANK YOU !!!
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)5. Yes, there'd be even more outrage if a Democratic President...
... made such comments about rural communities that are among the POOREST in the whole country, deriding their Republican officials for not doing enough to help them.
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ck4829
(35,069 posts)6. You know it
sobenji
(316 posts)7. We still hear crap about
Cling to their guns and bibles.
Mr.Bill
(24,284 posts)8. Remember the national crisis
when Obama talked about people clinging to their bibles and guns?
And hey, at least Trump didn't say the people of Baltimore were deplorable.