• chitak166@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Immigration is one of the best solutions to fix rural America.

    So of course rural Americans are going to be against it.

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      9 months ago

      What do you mean by this? Just asking, I’m from rural America and now live in a large city.

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        9 months ago

        Plenty of space and opportunities for revitalization. All they need are people living there.

        I am 100% in favor of expanding immigration with the stipulation that additional immigrants must live in rural areas.

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      9 months ago

      Immigration is the the only solution for all of America. The next few generations are going to be smaller than those that preceded them. Unless you’d like to see massive deflation and the economy reduced by a third or more (you don’t) immigrants are the only workable solution. Japan is staring this problem down right now and has chosen xenophobic and racist policies; it is headed for catastrophe and the world will get to watch in the next two decades what refusing large-scale immigration does to a nation with a strong economy and shrinking population.

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        9 months ago

        Ireland too iirc, as it became an Alex Jones talking point for a while that someone in Ireland said they needed 4 million immigrants to prevent similar issues. The person was just using that as a measure, and iirc it’s quite a while in the past so not sure if it’s the same today.

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      9 months ago

      Why do you think it needs “fixing” anyway? Rural America is great already.

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        9 months ago

        It’s not as bad as what people who use the term ‘flyover states’ think.

        It can still be greatly improved, and immigration is the way to do it.

        Just drive through rural America and you’ll see dead town after dead town. Mainstreets with less than 50% of their buildings occupied is the norm.

        It doesn’t have to be this way. On average, each additional person contributing to an economy bolsters it rather than detracts from it.