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The rift in the American political landscape crosses between these two enclaves. Our political parties and our ideologies are polarized along these lines. .......
Where do you stand? Does your big-city or small-town identity shape your political ideology?
The rift in the American political landscape crosses between these two enclaves. Our political parties and our ideologies are polarized along these lines. The demography is dramatically different and the way each group's economies and value systems are constructed pits them naturally against eachother.
This isn't new; our history has been shaped by this fundamental tug of war.
Where do you stand? Does your big-city or small-town identity shape your political ideology?
I wish I was a charismatic wordsmith like Jefferson. Thankfully, in this case Jefferson and I are of one mind.
"I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice."
--Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 1800. ME 10:173
"I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe."
--Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787. Papers 12:442
Jefferson on Politics & Government: Commerce & Agriculture
I wish I was a charismatic wordsmith like Jefferson. Thankfully, in this case Jefferson and I are of one mind.Jefferson on Politics & Government: Commerce & Agriculture
"I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice."
"I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe."--Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 1800. ME 10:173
--Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787. Papers 12:442
jefferson never did seem like a futurist.
I wish I was a charismatic wordsmith like Jefferson. Thankfully, in this case Jefferson and I are of one mind.Jefferson on Politics & Government: Commerce & Agriculture
"I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice."
"I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe."--Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 1800. ME 10:173
--Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787. Papers 12:442
jefferson never did seem like a futurist.
I would wholeheartedly disagree...Jefferson hit a bulls-eye 220 year in his future.