Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #ruralpatchwork
Most recents (1)
My life's work is now to undo all the damage that @JamesCarville did when he coined "#Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburg with Kentucky in between"
Sounds clever. Pithy. Folksy.
Here is the problem:
a) The image crystallizes the rural-urban divide so that
Sounds clever. Pithy. Folksy.
Here is the problem:
a) The image crystallizes the rural-urban divide so that
all the clever, worldly city folk can laugh at how backward, racist, and redneck those of us who LIVE here are.
b) It erases all the diversity of towns and landscapes that are the REAL #ruralpatchwork. Does he know that Monroe county went for Biden in 2020? That West Hazleton
b) It erases all the diversity of towns and landscapes that are the REAL #ruralpatchwork. Does he know that Monroe county went for Biden in 2020? That West Hazleton
elected it's first Dominican-American officials in 2020? That Montour county moved several points towards Biden?
c) That the rural-urban divide is a lynchpin of the racist #dogwhistle politics that pits us against each other and paints rural as authentic "real" people while
c) That the rural-urban divide is a lynchpin of the racist #dogwhistle politics that pits us against each other and paints rural as authentic "real" people while
