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I don't think that class warfare or racism alone explains the evident lack of concern for the loss of NO.
These guys don't like cities in the first place. The Harpers' article on the megachurch in Colorado Springs noted this, as the megachurch's humongous facilities really are nowhere near Colorado Springs.
Greenfields, newly filled with strip malls, office parks, and low low LOW density residential development, all connected by four lane roads--that's the vision. Orderly, in the sense of privately owned with no public spaces and no contact with fellow Americans other than voluntary ones. No social compact aside from a paid membership of some sort. No family, friends, church, neighborhood to dissuade you from moving another ten miles away. And always lots of parking!
I don't need to go into all the more negative stereotyping of cities that go into a negative appraisal, for it isn't just the immigrants and the blacks and the lack of parking. It's actually everything. They just don't like them, or the people from them, not at all.
In conclusion: you might feel bad about the loss of a city, with it's history, its clamor, it's big messy crowd scenes, it's quiet corners, but they don't.
They've been abandoning the cities for years.
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