“Much of this is probably wishful thinking on the part of urban-centric AP”
OR NOT...
Democrat policies have destroyed the small factories that dotted the landscape outside the cities, long gone to China or Mexico.
$3 to $4 gas has made the long commute to the cities unworkable for all but the highest paid execs or Government apparatchiks.
What’s left is either Ag, struggling small biz owners drowning in government regulation, Obamacare, and taxes, local gov employees, and those working for them, or those on assistance.
“$3 to $4 gas has made the long commute to the cities unworkable for all but the highest paid execs or Government apparatchiks.” Excellent point. People seem to prefer whistling past the graveyard rather than confront realities which have been with us for decades. And many just have a pathological hatred of cities for various bad reasons.
It fits the goals of the globalists. Create economic policies which force people into cities where they are more easily controlled.
My little town HAD struggling small businesses. Luckily we have a Pillsbury food processing plant in the city. If it goes my town is done for good. (Barely holding on now as it is...)