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To: neolib who wrote (5412)	1/9/2017 3:02:51 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 354363

>>>Its your claim that urban areas have more similar people vs rural areas <<< I have never in my life said anything even close to that. You are mistaken

To: neolib who wrote (5412)	1/9/2017 3:04:42 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 354363

>>So why are you making up this nonsense about the rural areas being more diverse?<< Didn't

To: neolib who wrote (5412)	1/12/2017 9:46:30 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 354363

Diverse means different things. Urban areas tend to be more (often a lot more) ethnically diverse than urban areas. And if you measuring by area, urban areas have more people, and thus can be more diverse in many other ways. Even if your comparing areas with the same number of people density allows certain things to exist that can't be supported with lower density so you get some extra examples of diversity that way. OTOH if your measuring by people a rural area will be much larger, perhaps have different terrain, perhaps have communities that are more isolated from each other (so less, probably much less, diverse within the community, but in some ways more diverse between communities). But urban areas are more likely to be the target for more different types of immigrants, thus increasing their diversity. If you compare by area, then in general terms its no contest, urban areas are normally more diverse and usually a lot more. If you compare areas by number of people, there is much more of a contest. Are Tulsa, Virginia Beach, Colorado Springs, and Omaha each more diverse than Alaska minus Anchorage (to drop the only significant urban area in Alaska, the populations of those cities and Alaska minus Anchorage are similar). I'd say they are in some ways and are not in others. But all that's about diversity in general and isn't really to the point. The point was about political diversity. If you compare based on the same population then are cities more politically diverse? Hard to say, but in one important way they (at least the very big cities) are not. If your looking at how they support the two major parties - Rural areas do lean Republican, you might even say they strongly lean Republican, but not as much as the large cities lean for the Democratic party. More rural areas are swing areas then large cities.