Will Barack Obama destroy our rural way of life?

The Washington Post sends a dispatch today from Brinkley, Arkansas, a place that used to have things like stores and a movie theater.

Things have gone wrong there, big-time, and Wayne Loewer tells the Post that Obama could make it even worse.

“I’m worried that he’s not gonna understand the rural way of life,” he says.

“That comment he made about guns and religion, it’s frightening, you have to admit,” says the secretary at his accountant’s office.

So what do you think? Does it matter that rural white communities (like ours in the North Country) are increasingly governed by urban (and often African American) politicians?