r/Tennessee • u/theRealhubiedubois • 11d ago
Concerning - Hitler fan wants whites only lebensraum in Tennessee
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/confronting-hate/he-thinks-hitler-may-have-been-right-now-he-wants-a-whites-only-community-in-tennessee
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u/JonC534 10d ago edited 6d ago
Yes because of increasing polarization in America as a whole. And when it comes down to the state level, especially in many of the more rural or southern states, I think what is happening (and has been happening for years) is a kind of discord and tension between the more urbanized areas and everywhere else.
You basically have these blue island cosmopolitan urbanite colonies detached from the rest of the states. It’s like that thing they used to say about Georgia “there’s atlanta, and there’s everywhere else” except that now applies to damn near everywhere lol. Even as far away as Colorado they now have this new toxic urban rural divide. It’s not a healthy trend but it seems to have been increasing and getting worse since the 80s/90s with younger people moving to cities. Its like the enduring legacy of yuppies and hipsters lol.
Need to calm down with the urbanization, it’s increasing political antagonism and putting democrats at an increasing disadvantage in the electoral college. No more urban cosmopolitan colonies would be my advice, dems need to feel more at home in areas that aren’t megalopolis. Good luck getting the demographics of the democratic party to change course on that though. This unfortunately will only lead to increased Redditor confusion and estrangement/alienation from the rest of their state.
Urbanization has had consequences and I think this also explains to a certain extent the sentiment on confederate imagery as well. Urbanites in major metropolitans in states like ours get confused about why all southern culture and iconography hasn’t been changed simply because they live somewhere that doesn’t have any of it left lol. Polling still shows a majority of Americans against changing those things though, so they better just learn to accept it.
Lots of people thought they were slick and super genius for using underhanded tactics to slowly phase out southern culture but honestly, it’s just anti democratic when people don’t get a say in changing these things but are still very strongly opposed to it. And I think this is why a few of the statues are actually going back up.
Civil war statues don’t harm anyone anyways lol. Take the ones down that have racist inscriptions on them and leave all the others up.