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In reply to the discussion: Rural Americans don't want job training [View all]Buckeye_Democrat
(14,868 posts)I usually don't read about that. If that's happening and they're rejecting that too, then my hypothesis is wrong.
I assumed that most of them simply didn't want to move.
Personally, I hate large cities and it would take a LOT to make me move to one. That's true for any large city and the racial demographics are irrelevant. I don't even like being around tens of thousands of people at a sporting event. Something about it disturbs me at a fundamental level. My ancestors were farmers, including my parents in their younger days, so maybe many years of "natural selection" made that environment more appealing to me? I don't know. I assume that most people from the past in those rural areas left for the "big cities" a long time ago if it suited them, leaving mostly people who preferred living there. The people who remained had children with each other. Etc.
What I mostly hear and read is that those people "need to move to where the jobs are located", such as cities. That may not jibe with many of them.