These days it seems that rural areas are the ones with problems, higher death rates, drugs, broken marriages, etc. Meanwhile the gentrified urban areas and suburbs are seeing a new social conservatism--less sex outside of partnerships or marriage, indeed less divorce, less smoking, etc.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Inverted Social Norms
Back the day rural areas were viewed positively, with high morality, great character, all the virtues (at least so my mother thought). Meanwhile urban areas were viewed negatively, with dubious morality, poor character, divorce, gambling, drugs, many dangers. By the 1970's it was clear where the balance of goodness was.
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