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Originally posted by snowman
Everyone knows what your gg grandfather/grandmother did and thinks you are the same misfit as they were. If you were gay, well everyone knows that, and you are excluded from the town, you are excluded from the community and anyone in it. If you were a liberal or conservative, you were a marked person, you either fit or did not. Inclusive, no way, you were either accidentally killed or moved out of town to destinations unknown. Weekly, monthly meetings of the townsfolk insured this. Religious? If you were not you were excluded from the town and all its activities, and even from marriage to most people in that town. This was the foundation of America.
Big cities started the secular movement. People moved to the big city for annaminity, to get lost in the crowd.
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Translation: Anyone who was not an inbred f*cking moron got the hell out, and made their fortunes in the big city.
The 'small towns' as you describe them sound like medieval death camps.
But thats not what small town are like at all. Small towns often have all of the diversity and richness of big citys. Small towns today are full of immigrants, and gays, and people from all walks of life. Have you actually every lived in a small town? Because I grew up in one (pop 5200), and it was nothing like you describe.
Stop looking through the book of Norman Rockwell paintings and get real.