Hey Aldean, I was raised in a small town. Let me tell ya' 'bout it . . .

[haele]

26. Small towns are hit and miss when it comes to "small town values"

If there's a strong, honest community base, and little poverty, one can potentially have a Mayberry type small town, where all the normal nasty human undertones are kept in check (at least in public) because "decent people just don't act that way".

But most small towns aren't like that anymore, because, well - it's a sign of strength to be a loud, petulant asshole.

Small towns aren't any different than big cities. The only difference is that with less of a population pool to run statistics through, if 15% of the population are going to be angry or ignorant selfish authoritarian assholes, you have a much greater risk of being adversely impacted by said assholes in a small town population of around 10k than you would in a big town of 3/4 of a million or city of 2 million.

Haele