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In reply to the discussion: So: What do we do about the fact that small-town and rural Americans are so out of touch [View all]Lithos
(26,404 posts)NYC, SF, etc. You can see this in cultural trends such as music and clothing which can take years for the ripple to make its way across the country.
I live in Austin and we are about a year behind the West Coast and New York City. Waco which is about 80 miles north is about 2 years behind us. I had already stopped using Facebook before many of my rural friends even discovered it.
There are a lot of other change points.
I like to view change and ideas using the memetic notion, which relies on viral propagation mechanisms. The Black Plague, Spanish Flu, TB, like change spreads faster in an Urban environment. And I think Urban people are more flexible and adapting to change. I think Rural people are not. This is why the back lash to change and change agents, immigration, globalization, women's rights, LGTBQ and the adoption of isolationism, manufactured nostalgia, and emotional jingoism, and snake oil cures, to create a bubble of plausible deniability so the can try and feel they have control, even if they do not. They want to believe so much that they are being bamboozled to an even worse fate.