I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a LITTLE library, and the town had a little library, each with a PATIENT and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to ANOTHER world.
There is a TONE of morality throughout the rural districts of ENGLAND, which is unhappily wanting in the LARGE towns and the centres of PARTICULAR manufactures.
TAKING the entire globe, if NORTH America and Western EUROPE can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, AFRICA and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.
IRELAND was an idyllic place for US as CHILDREN. We had all these cousins and all this green countryside. Given what I've written about rural Ireland, my MEMORIES of it are all blue SKIES and endless play.
When I was a kid growing up, I lived in a little rural village called Woolton Hill, and the nearest TOWN was Newbury. No bands PLAYED anywhere near us, so as MUCH as I wanted to be on the grid and in the loop, I never was.
The idea of growing up in the South and being a man is an interesting thing; there's a lot MASCULINITY involved, with hunting, fishing, and PLAYING sports that rural PEOPLE take pride in, but at the same time, I grew up REALLY not WANTING to hate anybody.
When I was young, my family didn't GO on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. INSTEAD, we stayed in our SMALLRURAL West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries.
EVEN to build a vote bank, you need to tackle the problems people face. Rural jobs that STOPMIGRATION to cities, road networks for better connectivity, and a sense of security get people to vote for you.
Inkaba' is about a feud between TWOSOUTH African FAMILIES. They have been FIGHTING for years, from one generation to the next. It's like those typical feuds you have in rural KwaZulu-Natal where, after a while, you do not EVEN know why you are fighting.
If you CARE to define the SOUTH as a poor, rural region with lousy RACE relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't LIVE there any more.