also i'm not a mathematician, but 80% of Americans live in cities and suburbs, and Trump did get more than 20% of the vote. . .
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If you live in a town of 1,000, you're often fearful of the big town of 10k, whose residents are often terrified of the regional small city of 75k... et cetera.
sep 5, 2025, 12:19 am • 1 0 • view
I don't have the cite at hand but there's also a lot of hometown bias: "I live in Des Moines and it's pretty alright but Davenport scares the hell out of me.*
sep 5, 2025, 12:21 am • 1 0 • view
Definitely. The ingrained cultural myth works outside the realm of numbers.
sep 5, 2025, 5:31 am • 1 0 • view