This raises two questions: Is Obama’s ascent a further sign — on top of volatile gas prices, plummeting home values in the exurbs and recent population upticks even in Baltimore and Newark — that our cities are back and that the country is making peace with its non-agrarian side? And would a big-city president address as never before the problems of our urban cores — blighted housing, shoddy public transit, dismal schools?
The High Rise of the First Metropolitan Candidate - washingtonpost.com (via southpol)
I hope so. Big cities have more citizens/voters, more issues, more problems… all this talk about small towns being real America and more patriotic and more god loving yada yada yada…. might stroke the ego of those who have the option to live in a small town, or chose to, and have to… but the majority of this country’s population live in big cities and deserve attention too.
Source: southpol
