Archive for the ‘Immigration’ Category.  The Left’s War Against
Rural America Part 2  The first part of this series is here.  Is
the Obama Administration and the Democratic Party conducting a
war on rural America? It’s a question I’ve had in the back of my
mind since I moved to rural North Carolina in 2009. At the time
the government had just taken over GM. Many of the dealerships
that were closed were in rural areas including two in nearby
towns. Their repair shops helped keep the trucks and cars of all
makes and models on the road, and since rural Americans drive
much more than urban or even suburban people, the dealership
losses were magnified. It’s one thing to lose a GM dealer if you
drive a Toyota; it’s another thing to lose the closest repair
shop for 25 miles around as happened in one of the towns
mentioned above. It took several years before local mechanics
were able to fill the gap caused by the dealership
consolidation, but I have to wonder whether this was less a bug
and more of a feature of the p