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Re:How Toby Spribille Overturned 150 Years of Biology about ... by Semiapies on Friday July 22, 2016 @11:24AM (#12144093)
There's a rural vs urban component, but yes, it's about being poor. If he were poor and urban, a similar article would have talked about him growing up in the "mean streets" of some poor neighborhood. It's the same reaction.
Re:How Toby Spribille Overturned 150 Years of Biology about ... by randomdata on Friday July 22, 2016 @11:47AM (#12144240)
Perhaps it's a regional thing then, because where I come from, trailer parks are essentially cottages for the middle class. The poor connotation isn't there, but the lack of population density certainly is.