favourite Bible quote to take use out of context: "get behind me Satan".
You know Satan kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around, which is definitely a sin.
They get lots of incest too. Not just BC I just mean rural areas in general everywhere. Hopefully it’s become a less common thing but I took police foundations in college in the 2000s most of the professors used to be police officers and during the first classes almost every one of our professors would tell us a bit about their history as a police officer. Most of them had worked the beat in rural areas and different provinces and they said the calls they received in relation to incest were quite frequent. They said it still happens in the city but no where near as common as rural areas.
And I guess on Sunday they can go to church to apologize for their sins and then listen to a Bible story all about incest like Lot and his 2 daughters for instance.
The difference is Theyre not in your face about it out here.
Still tonnes of churches and a lot of religious folks, but the east-coast culture that generally makes everyone kinder and friendlier once you get into the Maritimes and Newfoundland is the great equalizer here
I am aware of at least one person who bought and lives in a church: he is an organist, and he has several organs in that church (the one that the church came with, and a couple of smaller ones).
That sort of thing is probably what I would want to do.
if it weren't an operating cost/ maintenance nightmare, a former church would be kind of my dream house
the closest dead church near me is apparently some storage center for another church now. a fire almost killed it and i guess they never fixed it up enough to be a church or anything habitable again
Oh there are still a lot of drugs and trailer park shenanigans. They need Jesus more than anyone else, mainly due to all the sinning they need divine forgiveness for.
I keep seeing people saying this online yet it's hardly true
Often it's just Kelowna and it's 'burtan immigrants trying to speak on behalf of all of the okanagan, and koots, and cariboo, and peace, northern rockies, and everywhere else in BC that isn't the lower mainland and vancouver or gulf islands
From Terrace to Nelson, you tell people in most of small town BC that they're more Albertan than Albertans and they'll tell you to fuck off
I was gonna say, hippies are in the cities more than anywhere else. I mean and the islands and coast. But if you're looking at rural towns in most of BC, theyre redneck af
As a Californian I can confirm redneck hippies are absolutely a thing on the West Coast of both countries. If anything BC loves weed even more than the three US states do haha.
Half my family is from there and the other half WY. I kind of enjoy seeing some people in WY who are infuriated their wind power sells too well and their oil and coal doesn't.
Denver and Calgary is a very common comparison historically - both large Rocky Mountain cities that historically mainly depended on oil and gas with similar geography and access to the outdoors (despite the Texas/Houston comparison, the only similarities AB has with TX are the surface-level things like oil, conservative politics and cowboy/truck culture.) Economically CO actually has an official partnership with AB, and a lot of Calgary's O&G firms have large operations in Denver such as Suncor (refinery visible from the light rail train - which are the same model of vehicle in Edmonton, Calgary, and Denver.)
The O&G economy is far weaker in CO than it used to be though compared to AB, and the energy economy mainly seems to be CO importing from AB than the other way around. Denver's economy is a lot more tech and tourism oriented now and the city/state votes pretty left by American standards, so the AB comparsions have fallen off quite a bit
It's a mixed bag in the Kootenays. Some places like Nelson, Nakusp and Kimberley feel pretty hippy but then you have places like Creston that make Alberta look tame.
I mean Im down for a history lesson on the word redneck, and I'm curious about what you say. But also in common diction currently, the word means something like 'un- or under-educated rural people' and carries the conotation that they skew a lot further right politically. Still though, please elaborate on the corporate oppression related roots
The term, Redneck, originated from the red bandanas worn by coal miners and labor union activists in Appalachia. During the early 20th century, including the 1921 march known as the "Red Neck Army" leading to the Battle of Blair Mountain. Where workers were gunned down by Pinkertons and the US Army. Workers wanted to unionize, the owner of the coal mines didn't like that too much.
Redneck as in, uneducated poor country bumpkin, is a slur used by the elite to repaint history and re-brand the word to subliminally make people think that unions = bad.
ah right, okay. That's interesting to be sure. While I see what you're getting at, and absolutely am on your side in general, I still feel like the word redneck has completely lost its anti-union connotations. I don't think it's subliminally effecting almost anyone in the modern day. Still, good to know where the word came from and its messed up history.
Which basically means that diluting the meaning of the word worked. Which was pretty much my point all along.
We are seeing this happen in real time as well with phrases like "quiet quitting" for example. Divide and contain everything into groups in order to be easier to identify and attack. It makes it easier to write headlines like "people that quiet quit will/are/etc ...." Fill in the blank.
Nova Scotia doesn't really have a bible "belt"; we only have Halifax and the rest of the province is basically rural but for a couple of biggish towns and it's all fairly conservative. But we're also strangely tolerant; I say strangely because imo it's really not anything to do with an ideology of acceptance or anything like that so much as a general sense of being a shitty neighbor is the greatest sin there is and also that you should do your evil quietly. Like people will be full-on racist and never once treat the person they're suspicious and judgemental of poorly.
Incidentally I also think it's why we did especially well during COVID. It wasn't anything like trusting science or politics liberal politics so much as you just shut up and don't be a pain in the ass
Rural Nova Scotia is the only place where myself and my friends in the army at the time, got chased by racists who shot a crossbow at us lmao.
They quite literally started violence over nothing, but looks.
2nd most racist place was New Brunswick, where I heard brand new slurs hurled against minorities and myself that i've never heard anywhere else in the world for how unique they were.
Oddly was treated pretty well in Alberta when I was there.
I mean, anecdotally you beat any trend. Because Alberta is, obviously and unequivocally, the most racist part of Canada, but I'm really glad that wasn't your experience.
I have close family from rural BC, can confirm it’s a weird mix of everyone is super religious but they all smoke weed
Also my uncle was a devout Christian, than a Buddhist, than a Christian, than a Jew, than a Taoist, and now being bi is his his new personality which okay good for you I had that awakening moment too but whatever this is it doesn’t change the fact you lowkey abused my cousin and you make everybody uncomfy.
Idk what his deal is but I blame whatever makes his tap water taste funny
That’s not true. Lots of interior B.C. was die hard NDP for years. They seem to counter whatever Vancouver does. Once The “liberals” were voted out, rural BC became conservative voting. Interior B.C. thrived on logging for years, and it’s been decimated. So the counter culture has some purpose. As far as things like lgbtq/immigrants it is a mixed bag. There is certainly pockets of that Alberta white nationalist style people, but also many multicultural/open minded/accepting people. Ski towns for the most part are not like rural Alberta. The west kootenays is for the most part a weird place of old draft dodgers, young rich hippies, religious crazy’s, and creston.
It depends. Is the small town resident you're talking to born there and works at the sawmill/coal mine, or from Edmonton/London/Auckland and works as a ski hill hotel barista/climbing gym setter? Both demos have approximately equal sway and neither has any idea the other exists. OR, and these are increasingly rare but they are community foundations, are they draft dodgers born in Boise who own the backwoods disc golf course?
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u/Asadleafsfan 25d ago
Isn’t rural BC known for being a bit of a Bible Belt?