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WanderingEng  ·  2053 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Country pride: what I learned growing up in rural America

The entire piece is written as if her anecdotes and broad views of others can somehow be reconciled into a single conclusion.

    In my experience, there was no evangelism about my family’s Catholic faith in the 1980s and little overt cross-pollination between our church and our politics.

Yeah, well in my experience my family's Catholic faith meant my uncle voted based on two things: abortion and guns.

It goes on and on. "My experience was (blank), and I perceived all (blank) type of people to (blank), thus proving my point."