The Democratic party in the U$ didn’t start really attracting urban peoples until smaller localised Democratic parties took a nod from the Socialist Workers Party, Socialist parties being urban in nature (though I must point out that there is a HUGE difference between taking minor influence from X because it’s something that works, like Democrats adopting Labour Unions from Socialists, and being X; there are so many reason that Democrats are not Socialists that I can’t even turn on Fox News without getting a migraine). This fate was sealed when, in the late 1970s, Republicans began appealing to Evangelical Christians, “plain folk” and anti-intellectuals — three groups who, historically, have also been largely rural; Reagan successfully painted Carter as an “out of touch stuffed-shirt intellectual” in the 1980 campaign, sealing the first genuine recession since the Depression — forget the fact that Carter, who came from a rural background and simply got a good education, better understood the “plain folk” than his 1980 opponent, a former Hollywood actor born and raised in Los Angeles.

The fact that Amerika is becoming less rural has nothing to do with it becomming more democratic with this election when one considers that, historically, Democrats have been rural.

I attended in 2007 and 2008, and there was a lot of complaining about the drop in business between those two years.

Don’t people want magic and woo-woo during hard time?