The End of an Era, or
the Return to an Earlier One?

They're welcome as long as they leave their goofy Socialist and Communist ideas back East

The Author's analysis fails on two fronts. First, no, the new citizens don't become smitten with bucolic wonder. They drive like the only reason they ever obeyed a traffic law was because of the likelihood of getting caught. My view of humankind's willingness to act in accordance with the general good -- even if nobody is watching -- has diminished greatly since the arrival of COVID. Second, we never lacked a sufficient number of conservative thinking, patriotic Americans. What we've suffered from is a group of statists who have been trained to believe since 1992 that they can do whatever they want and get away with it. Comey had a chance to stop that train and blew it. And now Soros has populated ever more DA offices around the Country with little Comeys. No, more conservative farmers will not solve this problem.

I thought this was a wonderful Article. My Grandparents all were Farmers, so I grew up experiencing that lifestyle. I was raised in Town, but I always loved the weeks visiting them in the summer or Christmas vacation. I was born in 1941, so I do remember some of the things this Author talked about like the Grange for meetings or visiting the General Store that always had very large glass jars of Candy well within a child's reach! My grandparents were Dairy Farmers, so it was interesting to go and watch the "milking". Later on they had electric machines that did that work for them. They still did not have indoor plumbing when i was very young. They had a hand pump at the kitchen sink and the bathroom was in the Apple Orchard! It was a wonderful life for them and they stayed on the farm until they died. Most Farmers did that! They were hard workers and very Healthy! I do think many young people will look for a different life than before Covid. They have experienced Both Parents at home for a year! That is something they will remember. Also Parents reading and playing games for entertainment became popular again. They had a peek at a simpler life and I think if they have a choice, they will want to hang on to as much of it as they can.

I suspect the author of this piece is in a big hurry to stake his claim on a new theory so he can take credit for the idea for a few decades, just in case it proves to be accurate. I'm not buying the theory. Blue staters who move to the open country in red states still get their news slanted by CBS-NBC-ABC-CNN-CNBC. They'll soon be demanding that their open range high schools change names and mascots by reason of some perceived offense long ago, before students became snowflakes.

My taste of that life goes back to my great grandparents on my mother's side. They settled in Michigan after the Blackhawk war moving from the East where they had been since, well some since the Mayflower. My great grandmother still cooked with wood despite grandpa and his brothers installing a stove that was half gas and half either coal or wood. There is nothing that will ever top the smell of a traditional farm breakfast cooking on her wood stove. They were also dairy farmers #3, and supposedly my mother's mothers father was the first to pasteurize milk in the state of Michigan and he did it free for neighboring farms. He was going to med school until his father passed and he had to run the farm instead. The one room school where my grandfather went is still standing. He graduated at the top of his class since he was smarter than the other guy. I know his education surpassed mine, just don't know how much of that gap is attributable to the school and how much was his insatiable thirst for learning which I witnessed into his 98th year. Seriously the man never stopped. Let's remember that the communists made their way to the farms in the USSR as the successful independent thinking farmers (Kulaks) became public enemy number one.

Here in rural az we are being deluged with citiots. They are reading impaired, unable to read no trespassing signs.

Nonsense. 'Working' from home by being a keyboard warrior or scanning screens with a headset are a FAR, FAR, different 'work,' than the actual hard work of farming or any other blue collar job that built most of the small towns that aren't bedroom communities for some city. IT IS THE WORK that makes one develop common sense about merit and reward. When YOU put the sweat needed to make a farm payoff or YOU mine the coal to power all those screens, you tend to have a short line of sympathy for parasites who tell you how to live and what to do with your money. The 'woke' crowd won't ever get a clue until they are forced to do the actual work needed to survive a bad year of weather or do something to feed themselves.