Rural white communities are often the most isolated from government. I didn’t grow up in them, but I worked in them as an adult.
On the local rural level the issue with government is the absentee nature of state and federal government. That state is just a suit who comes to town occasionally and the fed is just the suit for the state.
So the churches, the landlords and the industry leaders maintaining their fiefdoms are the ones who controlled local politics.
And to say the least, they all resoundingly knew they were maintaining fiefdoms and not communities of citizens of a free nation.
Rural white communities are often the most isolated from government. I didn’t grow up in them, but I worked in them as an adult.
On the local rural level the issue with government is the absentee nature of state and federal government. That state is just a suit who comes to town occasionally and the fed is just the suit for the state.
So the churches, the landlords and the industry leaders maintaining their fiefdoms are the ones who controlled local politics.
And to say the least, they all resoundingly knew they were maintaining fiefdoms and not communities of citizens of a free nation.