Like, I kind of assumed they were a artificially cultivated long con by American (or perhaps anglo in general) politicians made up to consolidate power but it sounds like they're kind of a recurring thing across several civilizations
Like, I kind of assumed they were a artificially cultivated long con by American (or perhaps anglo in general) politicians made up to consolidate power but it sounds like they're kind of a recurring thing across several civilizations
Raymond Williams - The Country and the City
Short version tho, yes, there's always been a relationship between settled (urban) land and productive/agricultural land. However, different social/material conditions reconfigure these tendencies.
For every reactionary rural society, there's also utopian/communitarian ones. For every shitlib urban real estate situation, there's also proletarian power.
Edit: Relevant :citations-needed: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-130-heartland-middle-america-and-us-medias-vaguely-nostalgic-racialized-code-for-white-grievance