I think a lot of hatred shows up in "liberal" areas because urban areas tend to be more liberal, and they also tend to be more mixed. It's a bit like the "ice cream causes murder" things where two things are correlated but not causally connected. In areas that are less diverse, you have more conservatism and fewer inter-ethnic squabble…
I think a lot of hatred shows up in "liberal" areas because urban areas tend to be more liberal, and they also tend to be more mixed. It's a bit like the "ice cream causes murder" things where two things are correlated but not causally connected. In areas that are less diverse, you have more conservatism and fewer inter-ethnic squabbles of any kind simply because you have less diversity period. It's not that conservatism causes fewer squabbles, it's that less diversity causes both.
I think it is deeper than that. Liberal communities have learned, through decades of control by democrats, that they government is their first source of support. That distances people from others in their community and so they dont feel the need to be civil. When you live on rural communities, you know the government wont be there to help and you will need to rely on neighbors. You dont want to offend those you may be asking for help. I know this because I have lived it.
And you are not the only who lived it. I have as well, and I see things differently. When your entire neighborhood looks like you, of course you aren't going to have ethnic tension.
I'll make a couple of counter-intuitive (at least, according to current dogma) inferences from this. 1) People are naturally prejudiced. 2) Diversity can be harmful.
When Katrina hit New Orleans, the population of the city mainly "cried for help" from the government. Just a few weeks later, a similarly destructive hurricane hit the rural western part of LA. Those residents simply went out and helped each other. (I lived in New Orleans at the time so paid attention to this.)
In addition, I wonder if there are any studies looking closely at this. Are ethnic tensions the result of ethnic differences, or because the different ethnicities are artificially kept from building bridges by too much government interfer...I mean...support.
I think a lot of hatred shows up in "liberal" areas because urban areas tend to be more liberal, and they also tend to be more mixed. It's a bit like the "ice cream causes murder" things where two things are correlated but not causally connected. In areas that are less diverse, you have more conservatism and fewer inter-ethnic squabbles of any kind simply because you have less diversity period. It's not that conservatism causes fewer squabbles, it's that less diversity causes both.
I think it is deeper than that. Liberal communities have learned, through decades of control by democrats, that they government is their first source of support. That distances people from others in their community and so they dont feel the need to be civil. When you live on rural communities, you know the government wont be there to help and you will need to rely on neighbors. You dont want to offend those you may be asking for help. I know this because I have lived it.
And you are not the only who lived it. I have as well, and I see things differently. When your entire neighborhood looks like you, of course you aren't going to have ethnic tension.
I'll make a couple of counter-intuitive (at least, according to current dogma) inferences from this. 1) People are naturally prejudiced. 2) Diversity can be harmful.
When Katrina hit New Orleans, the population of the city mainly "cried for help" from the government. Just a few weeks later, a similarly destructive hurricane hit the rural western part of LA. Those residents simply went out and helped each other. (I lived in New Orleans at the time so paid attention to this.)
In addition, I wonder if there are any studies looking closely at this. Are ethnic tensions the result of ethnic differences, or because the different ethnicities are artificially kept from building bridges by too much government interfer...I mean...support.