I don't want to talk about Aldean's "Small town" lyrics or video.
I do want to point out (again) that the homicide rate in GOP "small town" counties, is higher than that in Dem "big town" counties. 🤡
A white person in a red county has about as much chance of being shot as a Black person in a blue county.🤡
(I don't know how much you know about crime in the USA, but if you have as much risk of being a victim of anything as Black people? That's not good).
The secret to not being shot in the United States is:
* Be white
* Be in a big blue city
I think it's hilarious how white folk from small towns think of New York as a dangerous place.
If you visit NYC from rural America, your chances of being shot just went *down* significantly.
If you look at victim stats, in general you see that:
* Black people shoot Black people.
* White people shoot white people.
* White people in blue counties don't point guns at each other very often.
* White people in red counties point guns at each other way too often.
That vigilante justice in red counties is often expressed by someone pulling a gun on you after a perceived traffic slight.
You can flee SF for TX because seeing homeless people scares you, but you ain't ready to see guns pulled at a fender bender, or because someone merged.🤷🏿‍♂️
Fox News tells you that blue counties and states are more dangerous. But Fox News isn't real. You know this. Stop pretending that you don't know this.
Ignore the racist framing, and look at who gets shot, where, and why.
@mekkaokereke a couple things
1. Fox didn’t create it. It’s been a general sentiment in rural America as long as I’ve been alive
2. There’s some law of large numbers effects here too. Tens of thousands of small towns means that if 1% are dangerous that’s going to fill up the “most dangerous places” list real fast. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s dangerous to live in a small town though, or that it isn’t…
Still, most people don’t seem to be aware that the most dangerous places are rural
mekka okereke 
Tim Kellogg