Funny you call them prejudiced when, after reading this comment, it's clear you're the one who's prejudiced.

First, you're generalising, which is exactly what you complain they do. Second, they should be free to take any political stance that they want.

Oh they're welcome to it. But they aren't going to get the fancy jobs because no one wants to live with their insanity.

Civil rights ain't just "political stance" homie.

It's all right, though. Nobody is going to move tech jobs there so long as they stay evil.

And it's not generalizing any more than saying that a cup of ice-cream that is 47% vanilla and 53% shit is shit ice-cream.

> How about “stop being actively hostile to people”. Most rural areas are populated by anti-people people. ...

I don't buy this. Have you ever been to some of these places (let alone "most" of them) or are you just repeating self-serving urbanites' stereotypes? Villeinizing rural folks is a pastime as old as history itself.

> ... They want the opportunities of a big city where there are more people, but they don't "like" people. That's why they choose to live rural and have that become part of their identity. That "identity" is wholly incompatible with a densly populated area. ...

Or maybe they just like living somewhere cheap and with plenty of space around them. You know, like anyone sensible would, other things being equal. It has nothing to do with them being misanthropes. Or are Chinese and Indian folks so much more empathetic than us Westerners also, because they live in such population density?

rural != ‘The South’