[b said:
Quote[/b] ]You think that the balance of power between rural and metro areas is off kilter because you didnt like the outcome of the election. If everyone in a rural area voted bush and everyone in a metro area voted Kerry as you seem to think, then obviously there are more people that live in rural areas giving them the majority. Thats how our system works, we elect the person that the majority votes for. And your statement that rural areas means uneducated and metro means educated is well wrong. There is no way you can make a generalization like that. And in fact the larger concentrations of people on welfare and people that dont graduate come from inner cities - your metro.
Well, actually I'd say the same thing even if the election came out for Kerry, because I do believe the balance of power is widening too far. Its not just the presidency that's the issue as well, its the senate and house too.
Also, the system does not work based on majority vote, its based on state electoral votes. For example, if Ohio went for Kerry, he'd be president elect right now, even though Bush still would've had a 3 million vote popular vote lead.
I wasn't generalizing that all metropolitan areas are bastions of education and all rural areas are hodunk farms where people still count with their hands, I was just comparing the average education quotient of the two. Its a known fact that metropolitan areas have more high school and college graduates, and that the educational quality of those schools is generally better (except for some god awful public schools) due to the extra resources they're afforded that rural areas don't have.
Regarding welfare, while metro areas definetely have their fair share of people on it, the amount of welfare clients for rural areas in the south and midwest has continuously risen due to the large job losses related to industrial outsourcing, lack of commercial growth in smaller areas, and immigrants, primarily those from Mexico, who are unable to find steady jobs that pay higher than minimum wage.
And finally, not all metro areas went Kerry and not all rural areas when Bush, but there was a pretty large majority, particularly in the North East, and my home state of Nevada.