Zardnaar
Deity
Its the old rural/urban divide.
Every western style country electoral maps urban goes liberal generally, rich areas and rural tend to fo conservative/right.
Usual suspects go left (young. Minorities, women). Older voters, men, rich go right.
Very broadly that's the way it goes. You still get 30-40% who don't follow the trend on those groups.
University degrees are also concentrated in urban areas. Free student loans or similar are popular in liberal circles. Majority of the population don't care because they don't go to university.
Rural areas jobs are often primary industries and agricultural plus associated services.
Average urbanite has no idea what those jobs entails beyond physical labour. They've either never done those jobs or at best briefly did some during summer.
Very few lgbtq live in rural areas. People at best are indifferent in rural areas it doesn't effect them.
Rural areas tend to be overwhelmingly white in western style countries. That's changing a bit as illegal or visa holders go there to do those jobs.
Rural areas lack the labour required to do those jobs. Wages tend to be lower so people wont generally want to move their to do that work.
Pay workers more sounds fine in theory. Reality is people in cities don't really want to do that. People are already complaining about cost of living/inflation.
Most people don't really think how the food arrives in the supermarket. They have a superficial understanding of it gets there via trucks. Their idea of a cold winters day is walk from car to a building. They've never really had to work outside in said cold winters day with ice on the ground (I have).
Finally some of those jobs are out right awful. People ***** and moan about flipping burgers but that's comparatively easy. Vegans and vegetarians are still in a minority. Most people eat meat.
I'm guessing most people have no idea of the practicality of eating meat. They've never been to an abbatoir/slaughter house/ freezing works whatever you call it. Or worked in one. The worst part is the smell btw it smells like death that's assuming its clean and well run.
Some poor bastard has to I'll the animals. That's a hard job to fill. Here often ex cons end up doing it. Pays surprisingly well. Its industrialized slaughter. Boning rooms tend to damage tendons in your hands. I haven't done that but I have done filleting and exported it at ports. Growing up both neighbors each side and over both sides worked at the local meat plant.
Lots of heavy lifting. Sone poor bastard has to do it. I've done 70kg fish. My friend has done 100kg side of beef. Fertilizer bags used to weigh 50kg. Loading a container sucks (I've done 5 in a day working in pairs we lifted 75000kg that day).
Unloading containers is even worse. Chicken farm even worse than slaughterhouse.
Communists here talk a big gane but they're clueless to what those jobs entails. Ironically theyre reliant on reactionary farmer types for the food they eat. Young Zard indirectly fed those loud mouth types lol.
Alot of these people aren't stupid but theyre not educated. People with degrees in those areas are maybe 10% or so. They don't care about the latest trends on tik tok or Twitter. How reactionary tghy are will vary by country/person. Unemployment is often low usually because they export their unemployment to the cities. It seems older people leave to go to cities when young most don't come back.
So yeah. I grew up in that type of area. 3 years on a farm, 2 seasons picking fruit work lots of blue collar type jobs in factories, ports, warehouse. Bit older more paperwork for export order, shipping things like that.
Even in very liberal cities there's a whole world people don't see. I remember my university lecturer being shocked when I told him what goes on very close to where he was sitting. The average academic or white collar type has limited if any interaction with the blue collar jobs less than 1km from them. They're the ones on construction sites, factories, ports. They tend to swing right wing even in very liberal areas.
Even the left wing union types tend to be of the harden up butter cup variety. They're not hanging around in the same social circles and any interaction is superficial at best (I pay you to fix my house or whatever).
That's where you hear inappropriate jokes, the swearing and casual levels of racism or whatever. When I return home or are staying in rural areas I tend to dress like the locals (jeans, label shirt, "mans" jacket) so over hear things or have people directly moaning to me about something stupid. Its a very different mentality. I rarely visit my hometown now my mother has passed and sister+ kid left this year.
Most aren't evil or cruel more limited exposure to the wider world. They're working a rough job, never been on unemployment own their own home so why cant "more people be like them" type attitude.
