WSJ: Rural America Is the New ‘Inner City’

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Rural america were glad that the inner city was decaying during their worst 1970-1980 period and now they want sympathy that they never gave to inner city areas.

And they will get it because it's happening to white people now.  We all know that when something happens to white people it's a tragedy and not their faults, but when it happens to minority communities, we hear that they are just lazy or disinterested in bettering themselves.   Just look at the opioid crises reactions and contrast that the war on drugs. 

Oh give me a break. White people have white relatives and tend to have mostly white friends and live in mostly white neighborhoods. Every problem is foreign and uninteresting until it hits close to home. Seeing people they care about suffering makes the decline of small town America real to people.

That just further proves the hypocrisy. When it happens to non-whites (who white people can read about and reach out to if they'd like), they don't want to help them. Let's not forget too, that when we help one community, the benefits reverberate to help all communities. Helping blacks helps whites helps hispanics helps et cetera.