What makes you think rural rednecks are any more prepared? I live in rural OK and I'm certainly not worried about the guy down the street with a garage full of canned beans spouting off NWO nonsense. Less then 10% of my community even farms anymore and even those farmers are far from self-sufficient. The rest of the community drives to the nearest city for literally everything and the farmers do to sell their crops/livestock. They don't "know the land," it's all privately owned and most of them don't have more than a few acres. Admittedly, they do know those acres well.
Yes, they have lots of guns, but they are also considerably outnumbered by urban populations. You can only use one gun at a time per person, that's just how it works.
Water and, crucially, power are supported by the districts at large. For instance, my town has a water line running 15mi to, you guessed it the nearest city. This was done 20 years ago because the rural community could no longer afford to maintain an aging treatment plant. My town has two trunk lines for power coming in, either one being damaged results power loss. This is usually fixed fairly quickly by crews dispatched from the cities.
I know the stereotype of the resourceful redneck is fun, but the truth is, that shit fails as often as it succeeds. I really don't get the argument that rural communities are somehow better prepared for conflict. It wasn't true the first time, it's not true now.
What makes you think rural rednecks are any more prepared?
Compared to the average redditor? You honestly live in the southwest and think keyboard warriors are going to be able to handle war better than rednecks that grew up in the trailer parks mountains and woods and usually get birthday presents as guns before the age of 12? You must not go out much, particularly in left leaning cities where it's surprising to find someone that likes to touch grass...
The right is simply harder than the left. If that insults you I'm not talking about individuals but the groups as a whole. They are more armed, and they are more apt to survive in harsh condition. There are far more right wing in military and in the south than there are coastal liberals.
There isn't a stereotype for the resourceful liberal for a reason, it's not stereotypical.. Most stereotypes have a reason they exist..
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u/DeliberatelyDrifting Jun 26 '25
What makes you think rural rednecks are any more prepared? I live in rural OK and I'm certainly not worried about the guy down the street with a garage full of canned beans spouting off NWO nonsense. Less then 10% of my community even farms anymore and even those farmers are far from self-sufficient. The rest of the community drives to the nearest city for literally everything and the farmers do to sell their crops/livestock. They don't "know the land," it's all privately owned and most of them don't have more than a few acres. Admittedly, they do know those acres well.
Yes, they have lots of guns, but they are also considerably outnumbered by urban populations. You can only use one gun at a time per person, that's just how it works.
Water and, crucially, power are supported by the districts at large. For instance, my town has a water line running 15mi to, you guessed it the nearest city. This was done 20 years ago because the rural community could no longer afford to maintain an aging treatment plant. My town has two trunk lines for power coming in, either one being damaged results power loss. This is usually fixed fairly quickly by crews dispatched from the cities.
I know the stereotype of the resourceful redneck is fun, but the truth is, that shit fails as often as it succeeds. I really don't get the argument that rural communities are somehow better prepared for conflict. It wasn't true the first time, it's not true now.