The last election wasn't the first time people living in the country and city had different ideas about how to steer this monster truck we call America. The liberal-city / conservative-country divide has been around since the framing of the constitution when farmers were the elites. Especially in modern times this is partly a result of self-sorting . But I can tell you as someone who grew up in conservative suburban and rural towns and moved to a city in search of a job that didn't require a name tag or jaunty paper hat, if you aren't a liberal when you get to the big city, you might be before the year is up. And the reasons are way weirder than you think ...

6 Traffic Is A Nightmare

In the country ...

Driving is so enjoyable that "going for a drive in the country" isn't just a thing, it's a recommended treatment for anxiety. If you live in the country, you and your friends probably spent last weekend driving around with no particular destination and called it "going out."

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The low population density of rural areas makes public transportation impractical, so the only public transportation rural dwellers are familiar with is a school bus. Outside of that, public transportation might as well be a tie-dye bus run by hippies who want to force you to ride on some filthy post-apocalyptic jalopy that only travels to the places the government wants you to go.

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"NEXT STOP: LIBERAL AGENDA STATION!"

But in the city ...

Drive a car in a city and you'll spend every moment on the the road imagining yourself killing each family member represented by the stickers on the back of every SUV. In time, your state of mind will take a turn for the decidedly homicidal since driving in and around cities is so hellish and enraging it can literally takes years off your life.

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The inefficiency of it all will make you want to drive into the nearest body of water, if only you weren't in the middle of gridlock. But then, the light bulb over your head flickers to life: What if there were some sort of mass public transportation many could use at once?

Even if you decide you don't want to deal with other people's weird smells and incessant throat clearing, your drive to work would still take half the time because of all the phlegmy, weird-smelling people who took the train instead.