Rural Southerners are not secretly progressive. Please accept that in politics everyone is actually very honest. What you see is what you get.

April 10, 2026 - 18:57 UTC

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It's the American Vendee.
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I've never met a genuine rural southerner progressive who actually believed in that, but I have met many LARPERS who do.
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my second-cousin is one (for a given definition of 'rural') but as a non-larper he is accordingly already 200% into Dems winning everything they can
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And like stop wishing these guys into existence. Your allies are in fact more like annoying wine moms and other libs. Sorry you have to hear that, but it's fucking true. You aren't picking up votes for socialism from the backwoods. You need to be working to defeat them.
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I'm v. sympathetic to the idea there are large Dem bases in the South, particularly in VA, GA, TX, and NC, that can power flips, but also those people are not the farmer/miner coalitions of the 1920s, they're in more diverse enclaves like Austin, Atlanta, Research Triangle & NVA. Time changes
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Not all history is the same everywhere, but it would be nice if more people did give history a good look over outside of the Really Big And Dramatic Events.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_to_the_People?wprov=sfla1
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As a rural Southerner, I agree, with a caveat.
You will find, mixed in among the Lost Cause masses, some cantankerous souls who don’t give a damn for Ds or Rs, Trump, or anyone else. They believe in live and let live. These type don’t go to church, don’t follow any rules but their own,
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and will stick up for
other’s rights to do the same. Their ways may seem strange but they are not ignorant.
These are admittedly the exception to the rule but they are around and I’ve known quite a few of them.
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Only non-southerners could believe that. Progressive southerners have driven out into those rural areas.
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Or left them
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