Funny but, let’s be real, how informed do you think this take is?
Legitimately, how many Hallmark movies have they or any of actually watched, to the degree we can say anything like this with confidence?
I’ve seen one and only one Hallmark movie, and it was the one Will Ferrell did ironically.
I saw something somewhere recently about how Hallmark movies have a target audience of 55+ conservative white women, and the running theme is “city bad country good,” “daughter come home, settle down with nice country man,” but in reality their daughters will never move back home.
That makes a lot of sense. And it really hits at one of the misconceptions a lot of those people have about cities: that they’re lonely places without community. Sure it can be, but it can also be a vibrant place filled with close friends and the rural town where everyone knows everyone can be alienating and lonely. Conservative mom doesn’t get that her daughter is actually part of a community, just a different kind of community built on shared interests more than shared location.
I live in a rural “city,” and I feel far more connected to the people around me in big cities when I travel than I ever have at home. Rural people only want to talk to people they already know and have connections with (which as mentioned are primarily location based,) while city people LOVE chatting with folks, finding common ground, and discussing differences.
I like visiting DC and someone practically offers me a job almost every time I go, 😂
This is nothing new. It’s been happening for decades, it’s just reached the point it’s more noticable now.
I graduated high school in a small rural Ohio town in the late 2000s. The kind of country school where k-12 are all in the same building. My graduating class was less than 100 people. Some kids drove tractors to school if they were feeling ornery. Lots of Confederate flags (in Ohio).
Of that class, according to Facebook, around 10 of them still live in or around that town. The rest of us got the fuck out. And this has been the trend in every small town from the Midwest to the South to the West.
You know what happens when you invest in education for young people in these small backwater towns? They leave, and take their progressive votes with them. Hence why it doesn’t seem like education tends to work in these areas. It’s working, it’s just helping kids gain the knowledge that they don’t want to stay living in a conservative backwater, and providing them the skills so they don’t have to. And off they go.
Unfortunately there’s a problem with this. The Senate. Red State brain drain is going to continue to fuck the Senate up worse than it already has. It doesn’t matter how many people flee those red states, they will always get two Senators. Ironically, as they flee for better blue states, they are damaging the national government’s ability to function properly and making it more red.
That happens in microcosm with gerrymandered congressional districts, too. “Sure, leave your small town, go to the cities, were your voting power is suppressed.”
So Hallmark movies are right wing now?
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Yeah, no babe, its totally fine that you were flirting with this guy for two weeks while I was away and now want to end our relationship to be with him. That’s totally normal and I respect your decision despite being slightly bummed about the situatio . I’ll get out of your life now and am totally not also upset about the time and money I spent getting out here to see you. Alright, bye!
