Time Quote by C.H. Dalton

Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used…

— P. J. O'Rourke

In Paris, where I live, the inner neighborhoods are only available to the white elite. The poor and dispossessed are shuffled out to suburbs…

— Janine di Giovanni

“Symptomatic of this rural-urban identity crisis is our eager embrace of a recently imposed divide: the Red States and the Blue States. That color…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Getting anyone elected takes a village, but this is especially true for Democrats in ruby red states such as Louisiana.

— Jessica Tarlov

Because they [Americans] want to be thought of as a rich nation, they are very ashamed of this place [Appalachia] that has come to…

— Silas House

“these communities are not just drug dens; they also are home to many “decent folk” (Anderson 2000), the poor, near-poor, and nonpoor who struggle…

— Karl Alexander

“It’s too late now. The game’s been won by companies who don’t two shits about community character or decent jobs. Congratufuckinglations, America! We did…

— Finn Murphy

There's no question about it. If you look at the map, there's hardly any [Democrats representing rural districts]. There's me, [Rick] Nolan, [Tim] Walz,…

— Collin Peterson

“Hudson Creek is a decaying strip of buildings on either side of the highway, clinging to the road like barnacles on a rotting pier.…

— Andrew Mayne

The people from the suburbs are bringing along their suburban values: cleanliness, orderliness, safety - dullness, in other words. As a result, urban areas…

— Rem Koolhaas

You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now…

— Barack Obama

“see the people on the sidewalk?...aren't you glad you're not one of them? they're all so self-importantly going nowhere...they just have no idea of…

— Kinky Friedman