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What draws U.S. left-leaning folks to cities to begin with? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ALostInquirer@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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When you read up on U.S. political basics, you can't help but come across the detail that many of the people in cities in the U.S. seem to lean left, yet what isn't as clear is why and what influences their concentration in cities/urban areas.

Cities don't exactly appear to be affordable, and left-leaning folks in the U.S. don't seem to necessarily be much wealthier than right-leaning folks, so what's contributed to this situation?

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[-] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tbh I was considering flipping the question and asking, "Why aren't leftists moving to rural areas?" but that seemed a similarly mucked up form of the question.

The question wasn't aiming to be academic, so wasn't carefully formed to account for causation and examining demographic details, but regardless, it could be better. I'm simply not sure how I might better ask the sort of question I'd like to ask to get the kind of info & responses that would satisfy my curiosity concerning this area.

Despite the malformed query, some of the responses here have given some useful insights, direct or indirect as they may be.

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Also, despite several of the anecdotes about moving to the city and city life influencing them to more left-leaning views, part of what influenced this question is experience in rural areas and developing as a leftist there among other left-leaning folks.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago

I think if you had asked " “Why aren’t leftists moving to rural areas?” " you'd get a lot of "because rural areas suck" answers. Because holy shit unless you're there specifically for nature and isolation they're inferior on every metric.

[-] FringeTheory999@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I’ve lived in both rural and urban areas. Rural areas do indeed suck. People there lead boring purposeless lives so they’re always up in your business. If you keep to yourself they’ll just make shit up. This is not a problem in the city.

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