Some conservatives have a similar problem. Take, for example, someone in the South or the Plains and Mountain states who holds a technical or finance-related job, or is an independent businessman or farmer. Three are few liberals in his workplace and they tend to not be vocal. His social life is centered in a conservative evangelical church, where those who hold liberal political views keep silent on politics. (I attend such a church in suburban Dallas, where there were zero Kerry bumper stickers in last year's elections, but at least every fourth vehicle had a Bush bumper sticker or window decal.) He gets all of his national and world news from conservative talk radio and Internet sites such as FR, NewsMax, and Drudge. His wife homeschools his kids, or they attend Christian private schools.
In spite of not achieving most of the conservative political agenda, there is now a far larger infrastructure of conservative institutions than was the case 15 or certainly 30 years ago. In 1990, anyone with a political interest, conservative or not, probably relied on the MSM because conservative talk radio and Internet had not yet developed. The evangelical churches still had "yellow dog" Democrats from the G.I. Generation who remembered Franklin Roosevelt and remembered their grandfathers' denunciation of the Radical Republicans of the Reconstruction era. Homeschooling was virtually unknown in 1990. Prior to 1975, very few Baptist or charismatic/pentecostal churches had private schools.
Unless this person makes an effort to find out what liberals are currently thinking, he will be entirely clueless or he will be relying on either stereotypes or faded memories from before 1990. This is the reverse of the situation you may experience in the Philadelphia suburbs, but it nonetheless exists.
Well said. I have always lived in areas dominated by liberals, so I am used to it. I can see how stifling it is to be surrounded only by those who think as you do. Actually kind of scary, too.
Nonsense. If someone such a place wants to know what liberals think all they have to do is turn on the MSM. CBS, CNN, any of the big ones. That and most of that comes out in movies and TV since most of the people that work in those areas are big city libs.