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Re:Trying to ‘Save’ the Rural Economy by Glyptodon on Friday December 14, 2018 @04:19PM (#18684879)
The big differences between rural California and Rural Mississippi from my experience:

1. Rural California has way fewer black people. 2. Rural California is more geographically wealth-segregated. (The probability that a larger acreage and higher-owner-income rural property is adjacent to trailers is greater in Mississippi than California.)

In rural Mississippi people pretend their black neighbors don't exist unless they need "help." In rural California people just don't have black neighbors.

In general rural California is probably much more like Mississippi than you'd think.

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Re:Trying to ‘Save’ the Rural Economy by lotsofpulp on Friday December 14, 2018 @04:28PM (#18684972)
Except for all the laws protecting freedoms that nimbius posted and social welfare like parental leave, and access to the UC education system.
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Re:Trying to ‘Save’ the Rural Economy by village-idiot on Friday December 14, 2018 @11:42PM (#18687088)
The big difference is that urban California outvotes rural California, something that isn’t true in Mississippi.
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Re:Trying to ‘Save’ the Rural Economy by danans on Friday December 14, 2018 @04:35PM (#18685045)
> 1. Rural California has way fewer black people.

But it has a large Latino population in an equivalent economic position.

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