"urbane America [that'd be you Slog readers] has already written off the rural lifestyle as a relic or, worse, as a joke. For that reason (and this is actually the point Obama says he was trying to make in San Francisco), cultural issues matter far more in the rural areas than they do in the exurbs, because voters see those issues as a test of whether politicians respect their values or mock them — a construct that Republican strategists have become expert at exploiting"

the writer then explains Obama is working very very hard to get the Appalachian cracker vote. Instead of mocking them like urbane America loves to do.

Exactly what I've been sayin.'

You're welcome. Unity y'all-