That's more-or-less it. I wouldn't want to over-emphasise the 'rural' part though. Although rural seats tend to vote Tory, the city-country divide culturally, politically and socially is rather more blurred in the UK than it seems to be in America - no doubt due in part to Britain being a much more crowded place (basically, in the county you're never very far from a town, in a town you're never very far from the county, and in many places it's fairly subjective whether you'd call where you are more urban or rural).Schneibster wrote:...Right, it's the same way here. The rich people, the wannabes, and the rural folks who don't want anybody to do anything are the Republicans. I don't suppose you get quite the religious crowd we do along with that but you've got your share lately I think.
But yes, the Tories have done a pretty thorough con-job on the lower-middle classes, especially in the South-East.
