<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 9:15 AM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">><br>>> What is the difference between parts of the country that buy into<br>
>> MAGA/QAnon and those parts that don't?<br>
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>> Keith<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I live in MAGA country here in Idaho now. They are rural, religious and love them some guns. I like the rural part quite a bit myself, Libertarian that I am.</div><div><br></div><div>Someone once tried to tell me that being forced to live together in a big city makes one realize that people have to act as groups, not individuals, in order to thrive. Thus, they lean liberal. In the outback here, one can be pretty self-sufficient, maybe with a little help from your friends, but not Washington... </div><div><br></div><div>It's not all that poor out here, and the rich are more MAGA than the plebes. It's probably around 90% Republican. They don't go for DEI or trans anything and aren't quite sure about them there gays yet. They don't even seem to be able to let the polygamists do their thing. It's kind of like a museum of the 50s here.</div><div><br></div><div>-Kelly</div><div><br></div></div></div>