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I'm from an American small town that left a deep impression on me, for good & bad. Small towns are mythologized as corn-pone utopias in U.S. culture, but they're also places people want to leave. I wrote about small towns on my blog during the first Trump term:
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Save the American Small Town? - That Devil History
“Well I was born in a small town, And I can breathe in a small town” — John Mellencamp “There is only one good thing about small town, You know that you want to get out” — Lou Reed America is… Continu...
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March 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I'm from an American small town that left a deep impression on me, for good & bad. Small towns are mythologized as corn-pone utopias in U.S. culture, but they're also places people want to leave. I wrote about small towns on my blog during the first Trump term:
thatdevilhistory.com/index.php/20...
thatdevilhistory.com/index.php/20...
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The U.S. has spent the last 40 years nurturing a culture that deems immediate self-gratification to be the only true measure of "freedom." Is it really a surprise, then, that Americans were so willing to shuck collective values like democracy and public health when goaded on by a con artist?
January 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The U.S. has spent the last 40 years nurturing a culture that deems immediate self-gratification to be the only true measure of "freedom." Is it really a surprise, then, that Americans were so willing to shuck collective values like democracy and public health when goaded on by a con artist?