Uncle Orson on Obama's "bitter" speech

[james_davis_nicoll]

Unlike the inner cities, where many of the poor stay on welfare as long as they can and do drugs and crime and all the other things that the statistics say are endemic to the inner cities, in the small towns the people who don't have jobs move to a place where they can find work.

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[derekl1963.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the same thing many posters have enumerated - OSC hasn't actually lived in a small town recently has he?

[(Anonymous)]

IIRC, Card lives in Greensboro, NC, population ~237000

[derekl1963.livejournal.com]

Being from Winston-Salem, just west of G'boro, I can say emphatically say that it isn't a small town. Hasn't been in decades..

[thebitterguy]

I think having a population of a quarter million disqualifies it for 'small town' status, unless you guys have blown rural population scales way out of whack.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, when I posted that population estimate, I thought it was self evident that 237,000 people = city. That estimate apparently doesn't include the surrounding suburban sprawl, because in 2006 Guilford county had a population of 451,905 according to its official website (which also calls Greensboro a city). Bucolic small town America it ain't