Perspective matters.
Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear and considering different views.
At a Colorado county fair, an exhibition of values
How different are kids who grow up in America's rural towns from their peers in urban areas? A visit to a Colorado country fair offers some clues.
'Editorials and politicians struggle to explain the polarization of this country. On the East and West fringes of America, and the scattered blazes of urban areas in between, each news flash from the White House is parsed and plumbed for meaning. Better, perhaps, to stop to watch at a small country fair tucked in the northwest corner of Colorado. This is Trump country. And coal country. It’s a place where ranchers and miners and wheat farmers with hard hands keep to harder politics. None of that’s on the agenda of the two-week Moffat County Fair, a homey event with no carnival rides, but a rodeo on Friday night and three metal barns for exhibits. Folks in the sagebrush hills of this rural county of 12,000 say they feel little connection with the great urban beehives. Their evidence for that is at the fair, in scenes that have nothing to do with politics. “We are different,” says Katrina Springer, the president of the fair, after recording the winners of the best salsa sauce competition. “This is our way of life.”'>>>
https://www.csmonitor.com/Daily/2017/20170824/At-a-Colorado-county-fair-an-exhibition-of-values?cmpid=FB
