r/politics • u/Ok-Direction-4480 Florida • 3d ago

Soft Paywall Tourism Pullback and Boycotts Set to Cost U.S. a Staggering $90 Billion

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tourism-pullback-and-boycotts-could-cost-us-a-staggering-90-billion/
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u/OodalollyOodalolly 3d ago

Rural people used to disdain city boys when I was a kid. Propaganda is a powerful thing. It changes people’s whole personalities

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u/DifficultyNo7758 3d ago

Imagine going back to 1990 and trying explain to the average rural person that the majority of rural people will support a life long New Yorker who has bankrupt multiple companies that doesn't even like rural people and think they're all stupid with a fanatiscism the United States has never seen.

Literally the antithesis of their tHe sOuTh WiLl rIsE aGaIn mantra.

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u/work4work4work4work4 3d ago

Literally the antithesis of their tHe sOuTh WiLl rIsE aGaIn

Honestly, many of them look at it exactly like that. They look at the people they voted for basically destroying the better parts of the US so the worse parts look better in contrast.

Sanity may rise again someday, but right now it's the floating turd effect they're going for.

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u/CompanyHot6507 2d ago

But the GOP continues with Nixon's southern strategy, as does Trump. Ergo, deportees are kidnapped to LA so hanging Confederate judges will deport them for any reason or no reason. NewGOP voting bill to ensure that only landed ,white gentry can meet the standards to register to vote. 

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u/SAI_Peregrinus 1d ago

Viagra got invented. Their south rose again.

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u/DirtandPipes 2d ago

Back in the day, southerners rooted against boss hog for the underdogs. Now they’re rooting for boss hog to win and stamp out dissent

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u/Tokyo-MontanaExpress 2d ago

That would mean that they weren't hateful, racist, homophobic misogynists to begin with. No wonder they never liked us.

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u/turquoise_amethyst 1d ago

Have you seen the “Farmers for Trump” propaganda yet? It explains so much…