The Real America

At some point Republicans strong-armed our country into buying the myth that the real America is located on the periphery, in the prairie and on the plains, and that the city-dwellers, by virtue of where they live, possess some lesser claim on being American. I don't know if this argument ever made sense, but it certainly doesn't anymore.

79% of our population lives in urban areas.

It's past time that we allow ourselves to be ill-defined by the 21% who live in rural areas. We need to take back what it means to be American and open it up to include the vast majority of people in this country.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008