Scranton was an industrial manufacturing powerhouse in the first half of the 20th century and still had a population of like 120,000 people by the time Joe Biden and his family moved away in 1953
They're originally from a small town outside of Houston called Needville, but it's still just a 30-45 minute drive to be in the middle of Houston so not exactly "rural" compared to most of TX. Houston has tons of these little white flight towns around it
I'm learning all sorts of things today. I thought Paris would be like...6 million people. At a few points in their history, the majority of France's population lived there. I think over half of all French lived within 10 miles around Paris when the revolution started? I'm probably wrong since I didn't realize how small its population is right now lmao
Youre intuition is right, France is extremely centralised, but you have only 2m living in Paris itself, on a population of 75m. It's one ultra rich city holding absolute power over the rest of the vast majority of the country. Even people who live in the "Île de France" (approx 12m people) aren't really much better in terms of everything. France is so imperialist that even internally they have a core/periphery dynamic
they were both children once, that's the only accurate part.
i dont think Scranton can be considered a small town. 75k people. neither is Houston with 2.3m people
Rural identity has become disconnected from whether or not one actually lives in a rural area.
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Scranton was an industrial manufacturing powerhouse in the first half of the 20th century and still had a population of like 120,000 people by the time Joe Biden and his family moved away in 1953
They're originally from a small town outside of Houston called Needville, but it's still just a 30-45 minute drive to be in the middle of Houston so not exactly "rural" compared to most of TX. Houston has tons of these little white flight towns around it
75k people is a major city in France, 2.3m is literally Paris lmao
I'm learning all sorts of things today. I thought Paris would be like...6 million people. At a few points in their history, the majority of France's population lived there. I think over half of all French lived within 10 miles around Paris when the revolution started? I'm probably wrong since I didn't realize how small its population is right now lmao
Youre intuition is right, France is extremely centralised, but you have only 2m living in Paris itself, on a population of 75m. It's one ultra rich city holding absolute power over the rest of the vast majority of the country. Even people who live in the "Île de France" (approx 12m people) aren't really much better in terms of everything. France is so imperialist that even internally they have a core/periphery dynamic
What are numbers compared to feelings? Biden already said that being middle class is a "feeling".
Hmmm... We're gonna need a bigger feeling.
I live in a city with 25K and I consider that a city.