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In reply to the discussion: What are the issues of Rural Voters that we are not addressing? [View all]Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)about how "Liberal elites not being 'Real Americans' who didn't live the same lives as 'Real Americans' from the "Heartland".
They went on about how we "Libs" never lived the 'American Life', experiencing things like Little League and Boy Scouts, yadda, yadda, yadda...
Well, this Urban Liberal grew up in Chicago, and not on the suburban-ish fringes of town. It was inner-city, barely working class Chicago. I was a Boy Scout. My sister was a Girl Scout. I played Little League baseball. I played Pop Warner football. I had the magical, mythical "All American Life".
I also dodged or fought against street gangs and other violent punks just to get across the neighborhood to go to school. The cops in the area were mostly corrupt. Junkies passed out on the corner. Trash everywhere. This was also an area that was at least 90% white, and many were racist as fuck.
I don't think too many "Heartlanders" ever dealt with that.